Dominican Hospital (a member of Dignity Health) is a 222-bed facility that offers a wide range of services to residents of California’s Central Coast. With 24/7 emergency care comprehensive care in cardiac orthopedics oncology women’s and children’s services we continue to lead the region in medical innovation and excellence in healthcare. Comprehensive CareDominican offers emergency services and is a Certified Stroke Center and Chest Pain Center. Dominican’s services include the only comprehensive Cancer Center in Santa Cruz County a Total Joint Replacement program and advanced neurological and endoscopic services. Dominican regularly receives ‘A’ grades for hospital safety from Leapfrog Group and has received national recognition for superior patient safety cardiac care and stroke treatment from Healthgrades a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.As Santa Cruz County’s heart attack (STEMI) receiving center Dominican Hospital provides cutting edge cardiac care. The hospital’s heart attack treatment times consistently beat the national average and the hospital offers two cardiac catheterization labs available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Groundbreaking cardiac procedures at Dominican include the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure which allows for heart valve replacement without opening a patient’s chest.Dominican Hospital has forged significant partnerships with area hospitals to bring exceptional care to Santa Cruz County. The hospital offers a level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) through a partnership with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Neurosurgery at Dominican is also offered through a partnership with Stanford Health Care.
Responsibilities
The cardiovascular nurse navigator is responsible for guiding select cardiovascular high risk patients from their pre through their post hospital care experience. The navigator functions directly under the CVS director. The navigator is responsible for organizing the relevant education of the patient and their family and serves as the cardiac surgery resource on behalf of cardiovascular services. The navigator assists with new program development and is responsible for data collection and extraction as directed by the CVS director.
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Qualifications
Minimum:
• BSN
• 3 - 5 years of full time experience as a RN with critical thinking and working with high-acuity patient populations
• Current and valid California RN license • Current BLS certification • Current ACLS certification
• Experience in providing formal and informal physician and nurse education • Computer skills utilized in the health care environment
Preferred:• Nurse Practitioner
• Experience in community care and chronic disease management