Anyone work in a heart failure clinic?

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Hello all. I have been working as an NP for the past 2 years, in a general cardiology clinic. I have recently come across a position opening in a heart failure clinic at a different facility. I was wondering if anyone could give me some insight as to what this may entail? As it sits now, my facility does not have a designated heart failure clinic. We do see heart failure patients, along with other general cardiology patients, but I know this would by quite different. Thanks!

I'm in general cardiology but work in the HF clinic every so often. Most of the time, we're titrating GDMT for heart failure, monitoring volume status, doing out-patient IV diuresis to prevent hospital admissions, following up on new-onset HF (determining etiology and next steps), working patients up for transplant and following up after transplant. I love it when I get to work there. It's a lot of fun because patients can improve so much when they're adherent to therapy.

On 1/11/2020 at 11:45 PM, Rex_Rudolph_III_APRN said:

I'm in general cardiology but work in the HF clinic every so often. Most of the time, we're titrating GDMT for heart failure, monitoring volume status, doing out-patient IV diuresis to prevent hospital admissions, following up on new-onset HF (determining etiology and next steps), working patients up for transplant and following up after transplant. I love it when I get to work there. It's a lot of fun because patients can improve so much when they're adherent to therapy.

@Rex_Rudolph_III_APRN What is your certification in if you don't mind me asking? ACNP? FNP/AGPCNP? How did you go about getting those positions? I love cardiology and hope to work in that setting when I graduate.

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