Nurse Practitioner Advanced Heart Failure

Are you a highly skilled and compassionate Nurse Practitioner passionate about making a profound difference in the lives of patients with advanced heart failure? CHI St. Vincent is seeking a dedicated Advanced Heart Failure Nurse Practitioner to join our dynamic Cardiology team. If you're ready to provide exceptional, patient-centered care and contribute to a leading healthcare organization, we invite you to apply!

The Nurse Practitioner within the Advanced Heart Failure Program at CHI St. Vincent is a key member of the multidisciplinary team, dedicated to providing high-quality, comprehensive care to patients with advanced heart failure. This role involves independent and collaborative management of patients across various care settings, including outpatient clinics and inpatient consultations. The NP utilizes advanced clinical knowledge, critical thinking, and communication skills to optimize patient outcomes, enhance quality of life, and support the goals of the advanced heart failure program.

Key Responsibilities:

• Obtain medical histories when necessary.
• Perform physical exams (within established protocol).
• Diagnose, treat and monitor chronic diseases (within protocol guidelines).
• Order diagnostic tests.
• Prescribe or recommend medications for prescription for medications and treatment (within protocol guidelines).
• Provide preventive health screenings and immunizations for adults.
• Promote positive lifestyle habits to all patients through education and counseling.
• Assure charts are signed off by the doctor within 24 hours and/or according to hospital protocol.
• Maintain patient’s privacy and confidentiality.
• Make follow up calls to check patients progress.
• Assist doctors with phone coverage and hospital rounds.
• Work closely with other nurses to assure patient flow is efficient.
• Consult with doctor regarding patient symptoms to assure proper diagnosis and plan of treatment.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Education:
  • Master’s degree or higher in nursing, or equivalent.
• Experience:
  • 3-5 years clinical nursing practice in an acute care setting required.
  • 1-3 years previous experience as a Nurse Practitioner in an acute care setting or equivalent Registered Nurse (RN) experience required. (Experience in cardiology, critical care, or advanced heart failure preferred).
• Licensure/Certification:
  • Certified Nurse Practitioner (e.g., AGNP, FNP, ACNNP board certification).
  • Licensed as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of Arkansas.
  • Licensed as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) in the state of Arkansas.
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification (BLS-CPR) required.
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification required.

CHI St. Vincent, a regional health network serving Arkansas is part of CommonSpirit Health. We have served Arkansas since 1888 with a history of many firsts. Together with more than 4500 coworkers, 1000 medical staff and 500 volunteers we consistently receive praise for care advancements.  

CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health in 2019. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community. 

CHI St. Vincent provides you with the same level of care you provide to others. We care about our employee well-being and offer benefits that complement and support your work/life balance.

We offer the following benefits to support you and your family:

• Free Premium Membership to our Care@Work program to help employees with child care pet care senior caregivers housekeepers & more. 
• Health/Dental/Vision InsuranceFlexible spending accounts
• Voluntary Protection: Group Accident Critical Illness and Identity Theft 
• Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Paid Time Off (PTO) 
• Tuition Assistance for career growth and development
• Matching 401(k) and 457(b) 
• Retirement Programs
• Wellness Programs