Heart Failure - Nurse Practitioner

About the job

MultiCare's Pulse Heart Institute in Spokane is hiring a full-time heart failure nurse practitioner for its busy, growing practice. The role covers both inpatient and outpatient care and joins a team of four advanced practice providers (APPs) and two physicians.

Pulse Heart Institute is a physician-led MultiCare institute working across cardiothoracic surgery, vascular and cardiovascular service lines. It offers advanced heart failure services, advanced imaging, and care for complex structural heart disease and interventions.

What you'll do

• Care for heart failure patients in inpatient and outpatient settings
• Set goals of care
• Collaborate with many members of the health care team, such as social work, cardiac rehab staff and the palliative care team
• Manage decompensated heart failure (volume overload) in the outpatient clinic and refer patients to the ED when needed

What you need

• A master of science degree in nursing
• Completion of a post-bachelor's nurse practitioner program
• Passing a Certified Nurse Practitioner Exam given by an accredited organization
• Licensed as an ARNP in the state of Washington by the time of employment
• DEA, NPI and prescriptive authority
• Current American Heart Association BLS and ACLS for Healthcare Providers certification
• Either two years of experience in a cardiovascular setting or ARNP experience in a Heart Failure Program

Schedule

• Day shift, four 10-hour shifts
• Full-time, 1.0 FTE

Benefits

• Possible sign-on and relocation support
• Medical, dental and retirement plans, CME, and malpractice insurance including tail coverage
• Time off to recharge
• Student loan repayment, leadership training and room to advance
• Chances to do investigator-initiated research and industry-sponsored clinical trials with the Research Institute team
• A chance to work with the Innovation Lab, a medical device incubator, on new health care solutions
• Mental health services and wellness coaching