Chest Pain Clinical Program Specialist (Rn), Day Shift, Cardiology

White Oak Medical Center

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White Oak Medical Center seeks to hire an experienced Chest Pain Clinical Program Specialist (RN) for Cardiology who will embrace our mission to extend God's care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

As a Chest Pain Clinical Program Specialist (RN), you will:

• Be responsible for the development, implementation, coordination and maintenance of the Chest Pain program that complies with national standards for quality of care for Chest Pain patients as determined by the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, Society of Chest Pain Centers and governmental regulation for CMS compliance. Lead the development and implementation of program goals and operations for the Chest Pain Program.
• Oversee, analyze, and trend data related to throughput of cardiac patients and provide data to the Executive Director and/or other applicable hospital leadership to initiate changes as appropriate and improve processes and outcomes. Ensure metrics are in place to show continuous improvement in the care of the ACS patients and for CMS data reporting, as well as other registry data.
• Work collaboratively with the Medical Director for the Chest Pain program to oversee the programs' procedures, protocols, and policies.
• Assume a leadership role in monthly Chest Pain committee meetings.
• Provide guidance for care to interdisciplinary team as it relates to the standards. Work closely with Emergency Medical Services to assure optimal continuity of care from pre-hospital to hospital. Develop and recommend protocol and guidelines for best practice treatment of cardiac patients across the continuum of care.
• Educate nursing and ancillary staff on the best practices of symptom recognition and assessment, ACS (Acute Coronary Syndrome) and AMI (Acute Myocardial Infarction) for patients. Develop and support education to meet all requirements of Chest Pain Accreditation.
• Participate in identifying needs, planning and implementing educational programs within specialty areas for patients, families, community groups, and other designated healthcare facilities.
• Represent the hospital at local, regional, or other applicable levels related to best practices for ACS patients.
• Concurrently and retrospectively abstract data from medical records and record in the relevant registry, from focused audits to full chart review. To enter collected data into software and/or databases. Have ability to oversee multiple data bases and submission to a variety of vendors.
• Optimize opportunities to achieve positive patient outcomes in the care of the ACS patient by identifying, assisting and resolving issues that affect these patients.

Qualifications include:

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing; BSN required; Master's Degree preferred.
• 5 years' experience in chest pain accreditation, critical Care experience, Emergency nursing, or Emergency Medical Services
• Three (3) years relevant Stemi or Cardiovascular coordinator experience serving the needs of consumers with cardiovascular disease across the care continuum.
• Applicable direct clinical patient care experience in caring for consumers with cardiovascular disease within the past 5 years.

Work Schedule:

5 x 8hr shifts

no holidays

No on call

Pay Range:

$77,313.60 - $115,980.80

If the salary range is listed as $0 or if the position is Per Diem (with a fixed rate), salary discussions will take place during the screening process.

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), this position is classified as:

United States of America (Exempt)

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• Work life balance through nonrotating shifts

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• Free Employee parking

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees and their eligible dependents effective on your date of hire

• Employer-paid Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D, (short-term disability buy-up available)

• Paid Time Off

• Employer retirement contribution and match after 1-year of eligible employment with a 3-year vesting period

• Voluntary benefits include flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long term care, and critical illness & accident insurance

• Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support

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