Any Cardiology NP's? What do you do?

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I will be graduating from FNP school this May, and will have an interview coming up for a position in a Cardiology office that is affiliated and located within a hospital. I'm not entirely certain on what that role would entail but am very curious to have some sort of idea before I interview. I'm aware that NP's may function in many different ways in such a scenario, but was wanting to get some information first hand from some of you! So, if it applies to you, what exactly do you do? What is your day to day? Do you just see patients in the office? Are they follow ups, referrals? Do you round in the hospital or deal with inpatients? Just wanting a little more insight as to what your current role is, thanks!

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Following, because I'm interested in this specialty. Did you do your clinicals with the group, or how did you find them?

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So, I'm not an NP, yet, but my former supervisor is a new FNP at the same hospital. Anyway, I work on a cardiology unit at a hospital where a particular cardiologist group admits their patients from their clinic. I asked my former supervisor to describe a day in the life and she told me that she see's clients at the clinic first until a certain time, then rounds at the hospital the rest of the day. She is paired with a particular cardiologist and see's the patient's first, writes her notes and orders, then he rounds on the patients and co-signs her work, sometimes elaborating or adding his own information. I know she works from as early as 0600 or 0700 until about 1800 during the week and until noon on her "on" weekends. That's about all I know about that.

We have a couple of night shift NP's that work 7 days on and 7 days off, but they are specifically acute care.

I'd be interested to get more information from others as well.

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Sorry for the delayed response! I had my interview last week and my duties as a potential NP there were outlined for me, so I thought I'd share. I would see patients in the clinic 4 days a week. This would be mostly follow ups. I would start out seeing a total of 4 patients per day and work my way up to 10-12 by a year. My 5th day is allotted to be an "admin day" where I would look over lab results for the week, call patients if needed, and prep for the next couple days. I would also have my own assistant as well. As of right now, no call, no weekends or holidays and no inpatient rounding.

I am planning to do some clinical hours there in the near future, which will also serve to see if it is a good fit on both ends.

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That is awesome MJC!!! That is my hope - I want to find something with no call, no weekends or holidays!!!

Best wishes to you. Keep us in the loop. I am getting ready to start NP school later this year and just hoping I will have good job options when I finish.

Thx, Anne Marie.

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