Cardiac Disease Specific Coordinator, Full Time Days

Relocation Assistance Available

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Major Job Functions

Exercises authority and accepts accountability for consistency and evidence based cardiac patient care delivered throughout Cape Fear Valley

Leads the Chest Pain Accreditation initiative and continually updates mandatory elements within thisprogram.

Collaboratively leads the Disease Specific Cardiovascular Quality Program in collaboration with Cardiac Quality Medical Director and Cardiovascular Quality Advisory Committee.

Leads the TAVR (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement) coordinates Clinical PatientNavigation

Delegates the management of processes tostaff

Creates a shared vision with the facility team to achieve the mission and vision of the Cardiac Division

Demonstrates leadership skills including, but not limited to, problem solving, delegation and timemanagement/organization

Creates an environment for change/transition and staffempowerment.

Leads multidisciplinary team efforts within the health system for the purpose of improving Cardiac Care Processes withthe AMI, NSTEMI and TAVR care processes, patient outcomes and quality benchmarking.

Works in collaboration with the Senior Registry Analyst to review and analyze metrics from STS, ACC and NCDR TAVRRegistries.

Communication:

Participates in marketing, public relations and education programs for CardiacQuality

Assists with the development of protocols, standards, and educational materials and ensures that they are current and meettheacceptednationalstandardsofcare.

Provides monthly cardiovascular status dashboards to the Medical Director of Cardiac Quality, Service Line Director, Administration, and the Corporate Director of Quality and Safety.

Coordination:

Assists Cardiac Quality Teams in developing, implementing and monitoring systems to ensure transitions of care from acute inpatient phase through transitions of care.

Leads and supports Cardiac DSC process and performance measure compliance. Assists with data collection, analysis and·database managementforCardiacQualityprojects andprograms.Participatesinquality monitoringthroughpatient recordreview. Evaluates metrics from NCDR TAVR Registry and presents to Cardiac Quality Committee monthly.

Aligns EMR and all documents/forms to support care delivery in the areasassigned.

Recommends changes and modifications to systems as required to ensure timeliness, accuracy, and efficiency for AMI, NSTEMI and TAVR care and measurement of care.

Acts as liaison with physician leadership, administration, AHA Mission Lifeline, hospital personnel, as well as other interested parties to coordinate the various aspects of an indicator and outcome compliance on a regional level.

Facilitates active regional participation of all entities in the STEMI system of care per AHA MissionLifeline

Encourages and supports partnering facilities in the region to conduct routine review of the following and providefeedbackon Current state of Cardiac Care includingAMI, NStemi, TAVRcare Systematic changes likely to improve the probability and speed oftherapy Education and supporting materials regarding the ACC Cardiac Care including AMI, NSTEMi, and the patient undergoing the Transcatheter Aortic Value Replacement procedure.

PatientEngagement

Rounds throughout the healthcare facility to begin education to assist with self-management. Rounds on all patients upon their discharge and provides business card if further questions occur once the patient has returned tohome. Assures the Discharge Instructions are correct reflecting the CardiacDiagnosis.

Minimum Qualifications

The following qualifications, or equivalents, are the minimum requirements necessary to perform the essential functions of this job:

Education and Formal Training: 

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing required

• Current licensure in North Carolina as a Registered Nurse or Compact state licensure

• Nurse Practitioner preferred and encouraged to apply

Work Experience: 

• 2 years’ experience in working with Quality/Patient Safety and Regulatory, Quality Process and/or Data Analysis

• Cath lab, CSICU, or CSOR experience preferred.  Other related experience, such asCardiovascularDevicecarealso considered.Experiencewithclinicaltrial management,qualityanddataabstractionorclinical researchcoordination experienceaplus.Previoussupervisory/leadership rolepreferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required: 

• Proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking the English language

• Knowledge of PI methodologies,Joint Commission and CMSstandards, and patient safety issues

• Knowledge of quality planning, cost of quality, and importance of documentation

• Knowledge of basic statistics, distributions, probability, and measurement scale

• Skills with the audit process to include audit types as well as audit roles and responsibilities

• Demonstrates positiveinterpersonalskills.Verbaland written skillsrequired.Demonstrates effective organizational and leadership skills. Is knowledgeable of the age specific physiological, psychosocial, developmental and spiritual needs of the patients typically served.

• Skills in working with teams to include team building techniques and understanding team roles and responsibilities

• Ability to collect, aggregate and review data. Experience with regression and correlation, hypothesis testing, design of experiments (DOE) preferred

Physical Requirements: 

• Ability to move throughout the Health System

• Visual acuity for reviewing data and reports and observing process flows

• Audiological acuity for monitoring group discussions and interactions

• Verbal ability is required to effectively express ideas and views to staff

• No anticipated occupational exposures to bloodborne pathogens or body fluids

• Must be able to lift 35 pounds

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Cape Fear Valley Health System is an Equal Opportunity EmployerM/F/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity