PANP Transplant & Mechanical Circulatory Support APP Grand Rapids, MI

This APP is part of a team that provides detailed surgical care to the heart and lung transplant patient population as well as the entire mechanical circulatory support patient population. The provided care spans the preoperative postoperative and outpatient settings for this highly specialized patient population. No operative involvement required.

Key Position Details & Expectations:

• Participate in daily rounds with the multidisciplinary team.

• Daily assessment of preoperative and postoperative transplant and VAD patients.

• Maintain communication between the multidisciplinary team and have a thorough knowledge of the VAD and transplant patients.

• Provide continuation of care of the VAD and transplant patient throughout inpatient and outpatient settings.

• Provide communication to the VAD and transplant patient family including participation in family care conferences.

• Represent the cardiothoracic service at VAD/heart transplant and lung transplant selection committee meetings.

• Provide primary coverage for the cardiothoracic surgery service during the evaluation and workup of the transplant and MCS patient population as well as care for the immediate and subsequent re-admission of post op patients.

• Perform consults of VAD heart transplant lung transplant evaluations. Perform consults for other surgical concerns as it relates to VAD and transplant patients including drive line infections.

• Management of surgical and wound concerns in the VAD and transplant patients in the Heart and Lung Transplant Clinic.

• Preparing patients for transplant in regard to the pre-transplant plan and checklist. Also maintaining a working knowledge of patients on the heart and transplant waitlist including participation in weekly pre-heart transplant risks review meetings.

• Participate in weekly VAD/Transplant MDT rounds and discharge planning meetings.

• Maintain knowledge of post-transplant patients including weekly outpatient post heart transplant rounds.

• Chronic driveline infection management including monthly review meeting and frequent clinic appointments.

• Procedures: chest tube management and removal wound care including complex drive line and wound vac management surgical site evaluation and management management of Impella and axillary IABP devices in pre-transplant patients

• Familiar with the surgical anatomy and transplant procedures. Working knowledge of physiologic consequences of heart and lung transplantation and incorporate that understanding in the preop workup of patients as well as the post op management of patients

• Working knowledge of MCS including ECMO Impella Heartmate II III Heartware Centrimag technologies and IABP (intra-aortic balloon pump)

• Detailed knowledge of UNOS (United Network of Organ Sharing) and how heart and lungs are placed in the United States.

• Works with the multidisciplinary team to develop department and hospital policies regarding transplantation and VADs including VAD and transplant quality and safety meetings

Qualifications

Physician Assistant:

• Required Masters Degree Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant educational program

• LIC-Physician Assistant - State of Michigan

• CRT-Physician Asst Certified (PA-C) - NCCPA National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants

• CRT- Life Support BLS& ACLS

Nurse Practitioner:

• Required Masters Degree Nurse Practitioners who obtained their education and certification after 2000 must show evidence of completion of a masters post-masters or doctorate from a Nurse Practitioner program that is accredited by the Commission on the Collegiate of Nursing Education or the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission

• 3 years of relevant experience current relevant clinical experience

• Previous experience functioning in a collaborative role as a Nurse Practitioner

• LIC-Nurse Practitioner (NP) - State of Michigan

• CRT- Life Support BLS& ACLS

Butterworth Hospital

Since 1873 Corewell Health Butterworth Hospital (part of Corewell Health Grand Rapids Hospitals) has been growing and building a reputation of excellence in care diagnostics treatment prevention and education. It is the flagship hospital for Corewell Health Grand Rapids Hospitals which includes Fred and Lena Meijer Heart Center Helen DeVos Childrens Hospital and Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion.

Butterworth Hospital offers a wide range of advanced medical surgical and specialty care services that allow the urban campus in downtown Grand Rapids to serve as a major tertiary and quaternary referral center for West Michigan and beyond. These services include the only Regional Burn Center and Level I Trauma Center in West Michigan. Butterworth Hospital is a clinical leader in cardiovascular cancer obstetrics and gynecology orthopedics neurosciences trauma and emergency care services among many others.

Grand Rapids Michigan

Grand Rapids is the second-largest city in Michigan boasting a vibrant downtown scene with hundreds of local restaurants and craft breweries. It is the economic and cultural hub of West Michigan the fastest growing major city in Michigan and one of the fastest growing cities in the Midwest. A global canvas of creativity and community Grand Rapids is home to ArtPrize concert and theater venues museums Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park city owned parks and is located just 30 minutes away from the beautiful west Michigan lakeshore. With a growing metro area population of over 1 million people Grand Rapids has been recently identified by Forbes as the #1 best city to raise a family based on cost of living housing affordability commute and 2022 US News ranked Grand Rapids 16th best place to live in the United States out of 150 metro areas