Lead APP Cardiac Telemetry/Stepdown Unit
About The Position
The Lead Advanced Practice Provider (APP) for Cardiac Telemetry/Stepdown Unit – Cardiothoracic (CT) Surgery, is a pivotal leadership role responsible for advancing the quality and coordination of cardiac surgery and cardiovascular care across the Department of CT Surgery/Cardiovascular services at GSUH. This role integrates clinical expertise, program development, and data analytics to improve patient outcomes, reduce readmissions, and optimize performance metrics across the CT surgery/cardiovascular services at GSUH. The APP lead serves as a clinical leader, educator, and data-driven strategist, bridging frontline care with system-level quality and performance improvement.
Requirements
- Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Studies (PA-C) required
- Board certification
- Current licensure as an NP or PA in the State of New York.
- BLS and ACLS certification required.
- Minimum 5 years of clinical experience in advanced cardiothoracic and cardiovascular care
- Strong understanding of cardiovascular and CT surgical care
- Proficiency in data analytics (e.g., Excel and EPIC reporting)
- Strong clinical judgment
- Excellent leadership, communication, and mentoring skills.
- Ability to interpret complex data and translate insights into quality initiatives.
- Proficiency with electronic medical records and reporting systems.
- Strategic thinker capable of leading cross-departmental initiatives.
Nice To Haves
- Prior leadership or supervisory experience preferred
- Proven track record of program development and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Ensure safe, efficient, and evidence-based cardiovascular care
- Serve as the clinical lead for cardiothoracic unit, ensuring delivery of safe, efficient evidence-based high-quality cardiovascular care.
- Participate in and coordinate multidisciplinary rounds, facilitating communication and care planning.
- Mentor and provide clinical guidance to nurses, APPs, and other staff to promote professional growth and best practices.
- Recruit talented APP’s support onboarding, proctoring, and competency validation of new providers and maintain training, competency documentation and annual performance evaluations.
- Retain talent with a focus on employee engagement and optimize department and inter-departmental collaboration
- Design, implement, and oversee a cardiovascular care program focused on reducing readmissions, decreasing surgical complications, optimizing outcomes, improving long-term outcomes and improving patient experience.
- Collaborate with physicians, surgeons and leadership to develop, update, and implement clinical protocols and pathways for CT surgery/cardiovascular patients.
- Develop and execute care transition protocols, outpatient management workflows, and patient education initiatives.
- Integrate evidence-based strategies for “best practice” in cardiovascular care
- Track, analyze, and report program outcomes to ensure alignment with organizational goals, Leap Frog Hospital/Patient Safety ratings, CMS Five Star ratings, Joint Commission and national benchmarks.
- Collect, manage, and cardiovascular and CT surgical performance data to support continuous quality improvement, in collaboration with the GSUH Quality Department
- Provide actionable insights through data visualization and trend analysis to support operational decisions.
- Assist with budget planning as it relates to staffing and capital purchases of medical equipment, in collaboration with biomedical engineering, medical vendors and hospital leadership
- Collaborate with Quality and Digital & Technology Solutions (DTS) departments to improve data integrity, reporting accuracy, and performance transparency.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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