Nurse Practitioner - Cardiothoracic Surgery

Job Description

Monitors and tracks all patients who have been diagnosed with heart valve disease specifically but not limited to:

• Maintain list of patients for aortic balloon Valvuloplasty, Mitral stenosis, pre TAVR patients, and patients with mitral clip.
• Facilitate tests for patients
• Prepare patient office records for presentation at valve clinic meeting (cath films, MRA, carotids, TEE, Lab Tests)
• Post Procedure follow up scheduling
• Gain familiarity with echo criteria and valve protocols and notify physician when questions arise.
• Identifies patients in need of ongoing diagnostic interventions and related services; and facilitates initial and follow up encounters in multidisciplinary clinic.
• Provides input to the Valve Clinic Advisory Committees in the development of quality programs that include tracking information, care conference presentations, outcome measures and patient satisfaction indices.
• Develops and manages monitoring systems to help meet quality initiatives.
• Organizes and actively participates in a regular multidisciplinary valve clinic.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to the needs of patients, families, staff, and physicians. Responds to concerns, questions, and other feedback in timely and thoughtful manner.
• Coordination of information and patient transfer to other hospitals that have availability to do valve procedures.
• Works with patients, providers and caregivers to identify possible barriers to care and systematically helps to break down barriers (i.e. Financial, transportation, language, etc.).
• Facilitates as necessary timeliness of appointments; works continuously to reduce the intervals between time of abnormal results, diagnosis and treatment.
• Develops and maintains relationships with providers, internal service delivery departments, other caregivers and patients in order to coordinate services within the organization, at outside facilities and within the community.
• Assists patients in accessing support and follow-up services.
• Maintains contact with patients throughout the continuum of care; meets patients at their doctors appointments as necessary; addresses questions and concerns.
• With the Medical Directors and leadership team, assists with the development and implementation of goals and objectives (including staff education) for the Valve clinic.
• Maintain list of patients with valvular heart disease referred to Cardiac Surgery and the Multidisciplinary valve clinic.
• Refine and maintain the ECHO AI reports as a quality initiative to ensure adequate capture of all patients with valvular heart disease.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitating patient evaluation, procedural planning, data management, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Serving as the primary liaison between patients and the Structural Heart team to ensure timely communication and care coordination.
• Participating in patient and family education, setting expectations, and answering questions related to the procedure and recovery process.
• Ensuring timely and accurate data entry into national registries and monitoring program metrics and KPIs.
• Ensuring compliance with CMS National Coverage Determination (NCD) requirements and institutional policies.
• Participating in community outreach and physician education to promote awareness and appropriate referrals to the Structural Heart program.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with internal and external referring physicians and developing a program database

Qualifications:

• Masters Degree
• National Board Certification as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
• BLS certification
• ACLS certification

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Albert Einstein Medical Center

Primary Location Address

5501 Old York Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America