Cardiology Job at Tufts Medicine in Lowell, MA

Lowell General Hospital is currently seeking an outpatient Cardiology Nurse Practitioner to join our Heart Failure Program team within the ConnectCare Hub in Lowell, MA. This part-time position will be 24 hours per week with 8-hour shifts (Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday).

This position will provide advanced clinical care to patients with heart failure in an outpatient setting, collaborating with our cardiologists, primary care physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. This position will manage complex heart failure cases, optimize therapy, reduce hospital readmissions, and improve patient outcomes and quality of life.

Why join our team:

Collaborative. Community-minded. Committed to you.

The Heart Failure Clinic provides comprehensive and individualized disease management, education, support, and follow-up to patients with advance heart failure, with the aim to manage symptoms early and prevent avoidable hospitalization. Our cardiac nurse practitioners work to optimize and transition the patients’ care by intensely managing medications, coordinating care with home agencies, and use telehealth monitoring at home to pick up the earliest signs of decompensation. Our team is committed to providing immediate responses to acute concerns with telephonic medication management, clinic urgent visits inclusive of provider visit and on-site IV Lasix, and utilization of Mobile Integrated Health with paramedic visits within-home IV Lasix as needed.

Lowell General Hospital is a four-time Magnet® Recognized Community Hospital, driven by the guiding principle to be one of the best community hospitals in America. We work every day to fulfill that vision, and it all start with understanding our patients and their healthcare needs on a personal level. Our two inpatient hospital campus, Cancer Center, Heart and Vascular Center, four urgent care locations, affiliated providers and outpatient facilities provide state-of-the-art technology and a full range of specialty services to the Grater Lowell community. Lowell General Hospital has been recognized for excellence in patient care.

Lowell General Hospital is the largest community hospital within the Tufts Medicine Health System which also includes Tufts Medical Center and MelroseWakefield Healthcare.

How you’ll transform patient care:

• Develop longitudinal relationships with your patients
• Work cross-functionally with various members of our community and stakeholders
• Collaborate with a gifted team of physician and advanced practitioner colleagues
• Focus on quality and coordination of care, not just productivity
• Contribute to a work environment that is flexible and in-tune with the desires of a modern workforce that values work/life balance
• Embrace one of our most fundamental values of active engagement within our communities, bringing the strength of academic and community care
• Join an organization built on collaborative practices and community

Who you are:

• Graduate of an accredited and/or approved Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner program
• Current license as a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Prior advanced heart failure or acute care experience preferred
• Current certification in CPR required
• A team player who is excited to work cooperatively with a wide range of stakeholders and disciplines to champions world class patient satisfaction and support