Cardiovascular Care Program Manager Registered Nurse / RN

Emory Healthcare•Atlanta, GA

5h•Onsite

About The Position

The Program Manager for Cardiovascular Care plays a vital role in ensuring high-quality care throughout the continuum for patients, while consistently working to achieve optimal outcomes. This position is responsible for providing comprehensive oversight, direction, coordination, and care throughout the continuum for cardiovascular patients, from admission through discharge. This is accomplished through regular collaboration with the interdisciplinary team, patients, registry abstractors, community partners, and external service providers such as EMS. The role requires advanced knowledge and expertise in cardiovascular patient care and serves as a key resource for staff, interdisciplinary teams, and community members involved with patient management within this specialty area. Maintaining high-quality data is essential, with the objective of achieving clinical excellence, including the attainment and maintenance of Emergency Cardiac Care Certification. Additionally, the position is tasked with delivering education and training based on data analyzed trends and outcomes. It also contributes to the development of policies, procedures, order sets, and care pathways aimed at enhancing quality of care and supporting program growth. Active participation as an educator in community initiatives, such as the Patient/Family Education Committee (PFEC) and other outreach activities, is required. The position is also involved in the implementation of cardiovascular marketing strategies. Collaboration with the Heart & Vascular Director of Quality, Chief Quality Officer, and Cath Lab Medical Director is integral to the role, ensuring that leadership is aligned and that medical record documentation accurately reflects all aspects of inpatient clinical treatment, decision-making, and diagnosis.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
Experience: Five (5) years of experience as a Registered Nurse, with at least 1 year in complex hospital setting.
Licensure: Must have a valid, active, and unencumbered nursing license or temporary permit as approved by the state board.

Nice To Haves

Experience: In Cath Lab and/or ICU/CCU
Certifications: ACLS

Responsibilities

Manages, develops, implements, and evaluates systems and programs to enhance the quality of care throughout the patient care continuum, making it easier for front line clinicians to deliver care.
Maintains quality data with the goals of achieving clinical excellence.
Align, partner, and collaborate with the GWTG-CAD and Cath PCI abstractors, utilizing GWTG-CAD and Cath PCI as data source, patient caseload, and accountable metrics for corresponding registries.
Engages with and collaborates with other peer Program Managers (Cardiovascular) in developing and implementing a Standard for Emory H&V, and communicates and collaborates with members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Optimize processes to minimize delays in care, including but not limited to; prehospital registration, activation before ambulance arrival, implementation of ED protocols for direct transfer to the CCL, and discharge process.
Follows patients from presentation to discharge to ensure care strategies are implemented, such as, discharge medications, referral to cardiac rehab, etc.
Engages with and follows up with the clinical team to complete prior to patient discharge, as necessary.
Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the registry and accountable metrics and definitions, with the ability to facilitate change when needed.
Ensures compliance with national standards for quality of care, as relevant.
Coordinates ECCC certification.
Plans, creates, and presents orientation sessions, educational opportunities, and in-service programs related to patient care and management.
Participates in or leads both professional and community events, whether clinical or non-clinical.
Serves as a resource to staff and clinical team.
Provides prompt feedback on opportunities and/or gaps of care/process, with improvement being data driven and focused on registry accountable metrics.
Facilitates and/or assists in developing standards of care, policies, and procedures that promote optimal care.
Performs additional duties as assigned, within scope, as defined and requested by leadership.