VAD Nurse Coordinator

SHIFT:

• Practice: Follows Nursing Process to deliver safe care: assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation
• Anticipates and synthesizes complex assessment data to best determine and influences total plan of care, pertinent data to be shared with care team, and tasks to be delegated.
• Collaborates with family, team members and other caregivers to coordinate all facets of patient care, planning with the multidisciplinary team.
• VAD education for (but not limited to) patients, families, schools, teachers, school nurses, and other medical providers.
• Collaborate with other health care team members, referring physician and family in planning and coordinating follow-up prior to discharge.
• Provides nursing support as needed for outpatient clinic visits, inpatient Heart Failure and Transplant services.
• Daily rounds on pre- and post- operative VAD patients on the CICU (Cardiac Intensive Care Unit) and the CCU (Cardiac Care Unit), wound management.
• Coordination of VAD-related studies such as ramp studies, exercise studies, and other imaging studies
• Taking periodic VAD call (carrying family "VAD phone")
• Management of device stock, in collaboration with Perfusion team
• Interface with VAD industry representatives for device updates, introduction of new devices, etc.
• Attending and presenting at national/international meetings related to VAD
• Participation in academic efforts (quality improvement, writing abstracts, authoring papers, research)
• Coordinate educational activities for the Cardiac Center Nursing team in partnership with the education nurse specialists.
• Manages prior authorizations for medications with insurance companies, letters of medical necessity, facilitates transport insurance conversations, and drives other communication with payers and families as needed
• Routes prescription refills to provider, triages phone calls, communicates with families educating them on the plan of care, and documents all necessary communications
• Professionalism/Leadership
• Role models appearance and behaviors that promote a positive image of Nursing.
• Role models how to interact with parents/patients and colleagues using respect and dignity while listening for avenues to improve on the ideal patient experience and anticipates patient/family needs.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the impact on the team by arriving to work on time; predicts challenges and obstacles and plans for how to minimize a negative impact on the patient/ family and colleagues.
• Provide an accurate patient status report to members of the team that reflects nursing interventions, patient outcomes and alterations to plan of care.
• Facilitates and promotes change in the unit environment with a focus on improving the ideal patient experience.
• Leads unit improvements and measures outcomes.
• Assures that staff incorporates professional standards of practice and regulatory requirements into nursing care provided.
• Research
• Reads, analyzes, and synthesizes nursing and other scholarly articles and research studies; shares knowledge with unit staff in a formal format.
• Contacts patients at established intervals, and documents/tracks in database as follow up for clinical, QI (Quality Improvement) and research purposes
• With assistance applies research findings to clinical practice.
• Seeks opportunities to participate in research studies or answer a simple research question
• Learning
• Identify learning needs of self and others and assist in the development of a learning plan.
• Applies education and training from departmental in-services and external sources to unit practices to enhance Nursing practice.
• Assist in developing and utilizing patient education materials relevant to patient population
• Participates in development/ presentation of staff education programs geared to meet unit and select departmental needs.
• Demonstrates health care informatics competency to manage patient care, outcome data and current and emerging health care technology.
• Resource Management
• Participates in promoting quality, efficient, and cost-effective care.
• Coordinates resources, providers, and clinical data for weekly clinical conferences, ensuring accuracy, completion of information and organizes flow to achieve efficiency with clinical review meetings
• Manages own time to accomplish direct/indirect care in a cost-efficient manner.

• Technical Diploma Nursing Required
• Bachelor's Degree Nursing Preferred

• At least three (3) years pediatric experience Required
• At least one (1) year caring for VAD patients Required
• Active membership in a professional nursing organization required.

• Computer Competency
• Basic Use of MS Word 2007
• Creation of meeting minutes, creation of charts and tables
• Saving and naming of new and established files
• Basic Use of MS PowerPoint 2007
• Creation of an educational presentation using clip art
• Basic Use of MS Excel 2007
• Creation of a simple spreadsheet and use of symbols
• Navigation and basic search functions of the Internet using Internet Explorer
• Use of Outlook 2007 email, opening of attachments, attaching new files to emails and saving attached files to computer
• Use of shared network file space
• Basic use of computers, printers, monitors, patient care devices, and Fax machines
• Information Literacy
• Use of Internet and Intranet to look up basic electronic resources for practice
• Ability to find and print Patient Family Education Documents
• Ability to find PPM Department Council minutes from last month
• Ability to find and navigate the Department of Nursing websites and related linked CHOP (Children s Hospital of Philadelphia) resource sites
• Ability to perform a literature search on the internet and ability to find professional journal and/or research-based articles
• Ability to evaluate internet sites for reliability
• Information Management Literacy
• Navigation of electronic health information records and ability to review specific patient data in a clinical information system
• Understanding of policies and procedures around timeliness of care, use of a clinical information system and support of safe nursing practice
• Utilize applicable clinical pathways
• Ability to collect raw clinical data using quality tools
• Ability to discuss, evaluate and analyze outcome data presented in charts and tables
• Discuss the responsibilities of each user of an electronic record related to confidentiality and privacy
• Coordination of patient care information in a fragmented environment where there is partially online and partially paper references

• Registered Nurse (Pennsylvania) - Pennsylvania State Licensing Board - upon hire - Required or
• Nursing Temporary Practice Permit (Pennsylvania) - Pennsylvania State Licensing Board - upon hire - Required and
• Basic Life Support (BLS) - issued through on organization that requires a hands-on instructor lead psychomotor skills verification (ex. American Heart Association or Red Cross). - upon hire - Required

SALARY RANGE:

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