Nurse Coordinator- Cardiology

Nurse Coordinator- Cardiology

The Nurse Coordinator- will play a vital role in enhancing the quality of patient care and optimizing clinical practices within our organization. Reporting to the service line director you will be responsible for coordinating and leading the planning and implementation of clinical initiatives to improve the quality efficiency and cost-effectiveness of care and will be instrumental in creating workflow process for electrophysiology procedures atrial fibrillation referrals and and regional outreach to providers for EP referrals.

• Collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team and identified physician leaders to optimize patient outcomes and promote evidence-based practices.

• Work in tandem with the heart failure and structural heart teams to enhance care coordination and ensure that appropriate patients receive timely procedures.

• Strive to provide timely access to treatments reduce readmissions improve clinical outcomes enhance patient satisfaction and effectively manage financial resources.

• Accountable for the effective management and coordination of care of patients primarily being evaluated for cardiovascular procedures.

• Partner with the interventional cardiologists cardiothoracic surgical team and clinical staff of multiple departments both inpatient and outpatient within Baystate Health and external local and regional healthcare facilities to coordinate the care of cardiovascular patients who are being evaluated and selected for cardiovascular procedures through their pre- and post-procedure care.

• Works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to plan direct and evaluate the care provided to patients and their families. This coordinator is a front-line nurse leader with excellent leadership communication and interpersonal skills. The coordinator possesses expert clinical knowledge which is applied to systematically and continuously collect and assess data in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team and the ACC-NCDR Data Coordinator to provide and improve quality patient outcomes for the patient and Baystate Medical Centers Heart & Vascular program.

• Collaborates with inter-professional team members to enhance outcomes across the continuum of care by utilizing critiquing and/or conducting research to promote evidenced based practice.

• Evaluate current clinical practices of referring providers and staff and provide education to ensure research-based best clinical practice is delivered to patients. The Heart & Vascular RN Coordinator provides leadership as a member of the multidisciplinary team collaborating in the development execution and evaluation of their respective Heart and Vascular program.

• Communicates professionally and effectively with the faculty and staff in planning for programmatic changes using tact discretion and diplomacy; is skilled in problem-solving techniques conflict resolution and team building development and provides feedback to team members appropriately.

• Assist and support patient and family in understanding and navigating through a complex clinical eval maintain expert clinical knowledge and advanced certifications in nursing practice with a special focus in the specialty to be a strong clinical resource.

Required Experience:

• Registered RN with a BSN required ( masters preferred )

• Minimum of 5 years acute care experience including critical care experience

• Clinical knowledge of disease/illness/treatment options specific to specialty

• Excellent communication & organizational skills

• Ability to lead a group with varying opinions and provide constructive feedback

• Ability to deliver presentations and facilitate large group meetings

• Well developed PC skills including MS Office: Word Power Point Excel

Hours & Location

• Full Time Monday Friday

• Location On site at Baystate Medical Center

Advantages of Working with Baystate Health

• Established career ladders with guaranteed compensation increases.

• Excellent Benefits Compensation and generous PTO

• Nursing forgivable loan program

• First time home buyers program

• High-quality low-cost medical dental and vision Insurance

• Competitive 403b retirement match

• Wellbeing programs that include but are not limited to mental physical and financial health.

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OUR COMPENSATION PHILOSOPHY

• We offer competitive total compensation that includes pay benefits and other recognition programs for our employees. The base pay range shown above considers the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including knowledge/skills; relevant experience and training; education/certifications/licensure; and other business and organizational factors. This base pay range does not include our comprehensive benefits package and any incentive payments that may be applicable to this role.

Baystate Health is a not-for-profit integrated healthcare system serving over 800000 people throughout western New England. Baystate Health is one of western Massachusetts strongest economic engines. With a workforce of nearly 13000 team members and over 900 beds on average across our five hospitals.