Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant - Hospitalist

Job Description

Job Description

• Our hospitalists and Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistants manage patients in the General Practice Unit, Observation Unit, Cardiac Telemetry Unit, and Progressive Care Unit. We provide inpatient medical consultation services and also provide ambulatory preoperative medical consultation in the Optimization. At Apollo Hospitalist group we serve as the admitting physicians for patients with advanced heart failure, many of whom are receiving therapy with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), as well as patients admitted for management of advanced structural heart disease.
• Our hospitalist faculty provides clinical education for residents and fellows, nurses, and other health professionals at hospital as well as supervision and training to residents who rotate through the various units managed by our group. For example, the teaching service for residents includes a focus on development of core competencies in hospital patient care, quality improvement and an opportunity to gain autonomy in patient management.