Structural Heart Nurse Coordinator

About the Role

Working closely with Heart and Vascular Center (HVC) leadership, the individual will coordinate and provide care to structural heart, cardiac, and thoracic surgery patients. Responsibilities include collaborating with advanced practice providers and physicians to create value for the Structural Heart and Cardiac Surgery programs, focusing on patient care, operational and quality metrics, tracking performance progress, and implementing improvement initiatives to achieve top HVC performance.

Responsibilities

• Develops the overall plan of care/guidelines and communicates plan to members of the patient care team, including reviewing clinical records to obtain demographic and financial information and assessing physiological needs.
• Provides direct and indirect care to patients and families, acting as a liaison between patients, families, hospital staff, and community agencies to promote communication and facilitate admission and discharge planning.
• Utilizes relevant research findings and quality outcomes to support and advance nursing practice and improve patient outcomes.
• Attends educational seminars to maintain and meet expectations set forth by Hospital and departmental standards.
• Performs daily in-hospital rounds and weekly meetings with mid-level practitioners to follow inpatients through their hospital stay.
• Provides direct supervision to staff in the Cardiac Surgery and/or Structural Heart Programs, including evaluating staff that directly report to the Nurse Coordinator.
• Performs other relevant duties as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing is required; Master's Degree strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant clinical experience in the area of specialty; ideal candidate would have three to five years of professional work experience.
• Experience in data analysis, reporting, and effective presentation required.
• Proficient in the use of the Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Current RN licensure in the State of Connecticut.

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate across departments and delivery networks to achieve results.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully resolve complex problems across multiple departments and/or delivery networks.
• Clinical credibility with physicians, nurses, and other members of the health care team.
• Ability to quickly process complex problems, identify key components, and develop plans for resolution.
• Effective interactions with all health care team members and the ability to elicit their cooperation.
• Demonstrated skills in clinical management of specific patient populations, including working with and providing support of primary nursing.
• Ability to provide clinical financial education to colleagues, patients, and families.
• Critical thinking, negotiation, and priority-setting skills.
• Intermediate to advanced computer skills, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk, and/or hear. The noise level in the environment is usually moderate. Incumbents as well as external and internal applicants who become disabled must be able to perform the essential job functions with or without the assistance of reasonable accommodation as determined on a case-by-case basis. Must have the ability to travel to various sites across the health system.