Responsible for the coordination, oversight, and continuous improvement of the Chest Pain Center program. Ensures compliance with ACC Chest Pain Center accreditation standards; monitors STEMI, NSTEMI, ACS, and chest-pain performance measures; conducts case reviews, data abstraction, coordinates multidisciplinary quality-improvement initiatives; manages required data and reporting; facilitates Chest Pain Center Committee activities; provides staff and provider education; maintains policies and clinical pathways; and collaborates with cardiology, emergency services, cardiac catheterization, EMS, Quality, and other stakeholders to improve cardiovascular patient outcomes.
Education: See Licensure/Certification Requirements
Experience: Five years of related experience. Requires broad knowledge of complex systems and procedures.
*GEORGIA REGISTERED NURSE OR MULTISTATE NURSING LICENSE
*BASIC LIFE SUPPORT (CPR)
*ACLS INSTRUCTOR - Preferred
*Performs no supervisory duties, but may instruct staff on care of cardiac patients.
*Demonstrates the ability to effectively teach, Coach, and mentor others
*At least 5 years involved in the direct care of the ACS patients
*Working knowledge of problem solving and decision-making skills.
*Working knowledge of medical terminology.
*Working knowledge of digital literacy skills.
*Ability to deal tactfully with customers and community.
*Ability to handle sensitive information ethically and responsibly.
*Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
*Ability to function in clinical setting with diverse cultural dynamics of clinical staff and patients.
*Good communication and public speaking skills
Tanner Hospital Carrollton-C0001
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Tanner Health is a non-profit regional healthcare provider serving west Georgia and east Alabama. Tanner facilities include the 201-bed acute care Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, the 40-bed acute care Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, the 25-bed critical access Higgins General Hospital in Bremen, the 15-bed Tanner Medical Center/East Alabama in Wedowee and the 92-bed behavioral health facility Willowbrooke at Tanner.
Other Tanner services include Tanner Cancer Care, Tanner Heart Care, Tanner Urgent Care, Tanner Women’s Care, Tanner Occupational Health, Tanner Center for Sleep Disorders, Tanner Advanced Wound Center, Tanner Pain Management Center, Tanner Diagnostic Imaging, Tanner Home Health, Tanner Hospice Care and more.
Tanner also operates Tanner Medical Group, one of metro Atlanta’s largest multi-specialty physician groups, consisting of 30 physician practices with specialties in cardiology and interventional cardiology, family medicine, general surgery and breast surgical oncology, infectious diseases, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, plastic and reconstructive surgery, psychiatry, radiation oncology and vascular surgery.
Tanner employs more than 4,500 people and offers a medical staff of more than 300 physicians representing 34 unique medical specialties practicing throughout west Georgia and east Alabama.
