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Job Summary:

The role of the Registered Nurse/PGT Coordinator is to provide hands-on care to patients by triaging patients, managing diagnostic testing, coordinating treatment cycles, administering medications, managing intravenous lines, observing and monitoring patients’ conditions, maintaining records and communicating with the rest of the healthcare team including doctors, nurses, medical assistants, laboratory technologists, and administrative staff.

In addition, the Registered Nurse/PGT Coordinator is expected to coordinate all PGT cases for the practice. Coordinating the logistics, scheduling, and patient communication for IVF cycles involving genetic testing of embryos, ensuring smooth coordination between patients, embryology, clinicians, and handling administrative tasks pertaining to the patients cycle.

Essential Job Functions:

• Rotate weekends and holidays as necessary
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to identify patients? care requirements, focus on their needs and act on them
• Nurture a compassionate environment by providing psychological support
• Prepare patients for examinations and perform routine diagnostic checks (venipuncture, monitor pulse, blood pressure and temperature, manage intravenous lines, provide drugs and injections etc.)
• Monitor and record patient?s condition and document provided care services
• Treat medical emergencies
• Triage patients to appropriate services within facility and appropriate outside facilities when necessary
• Coordinate patient diagnostic testing and treatment cycles
• Become familiar with and follow care regulations and standard operating procedures
• Be able to communicate complex medical concepts to people of all backgrounds and comply with HIPAA
• Participate in morning monitoring sessions, evening consult sessions and daily IVF procedures
• Provide coverage when necessary, including weekends and holidays
• Create new patient learning material and hold educational sessions both in person and by webinar
• Maintain licensure and certification as required by law
• Travel to other sites when necessary
• Identify opportunities for process and quality improvement for patient flow
• Provide excellent customer service
• Assessing patient charts for readiness for IVF & FET Cycles
• Completing Prenatal Checklists, reviewing lab results, requesting physicians to review abnormal results
• Completing IVF Checklists & FET Checklists
• Counseling and educating patients on items required to move forward with treatment, helping them to understand how to complete these missing items, and arranging the means for missing items to be completed
• Communicating outstanding items with other members of the cycle coordination team including medication coordinator, financial coordinator
• Documenting all conversations and needed items in eIVF
• Organize, track, and carry out needed elements of the PGT process with patients including gathering consents, charting, ordering test requisitions, and communicating steps
• Act as a first point of contact for patients requesting more information on PGT
• Monitoring patients for PGT-A, PGT-M, and PGT-SR.
• Reviewing genetic carrier screening results for patients and partners
• Reviewing genetic counseling session results and recommendation for patients and partners
• Counseling and educating patients on the PGT-A, PGT-M, PGT-SR processes, including clinical processes, clinical significance, financial commitments
• Submitting patient case information and supporting documentation to appropriate genetics lab (Cooper, RGI, Natera) for PGT-A, PGT-M, PGT-SR cases
• Ensuring patients are on track with trajectory of care once they move into involvement with Cooper, RGI, Natera and monitoring patient progress, documenting patient progress
• Communicating status of cases with physicians and cycle coordination team
• Assisting finance with authorization information/clinical documentation related to PGT-A, PGT-M, PGT-SR
• Communicating test results and meaning with all PGT-A, PGT-M, PGT-SR patients
• Reviewing next steps in care plans with patients
• Maintain spreadsheet/documentation for all patient cases
• Assist in reporting results from data collection and analyze for trends
• Communicating ERA results with patients undergoing ERA procedures as they result in the Cooper database
• Become familiar with and follow care regulations and standard operating procedures

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Job Summary:

The Fertility Nurse / Cycle Coordinator provides comprehensive, hands-on patient care and coordinates all clinical aspects of fertility treatment cycles. This role involves triaging patients, review of required of diagnostic testing, administering medications, monitoring patient conditions, and collaborating with the multidisciplinary reproductive medicine team. The Cycle Coordinator is responsible for ensuring all clinical requirements are in place for the intended cycle, working with patients to facilitate the receipt of outside records, and working alongside the physician to evaluate and execute individualized plans of care for patients undergoing assisted reproduction treatment cycles. The role requires strong clinical skills, excellent communication abilities, and the ability to provide compassionate and continuous patient-centered care. Participation in quality improvement and ongoing professional development is expected.

Essential Job Functions:

• Rotate weekends and holidays as necessary
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to identify patients? care requirements, focus on their needs and act on them
• Nurture a compassionate environment by providing psychological support
• Prepare patients for examinations and perform routine diagnostic checks (venipuncture, monitor pulse, blood pressure and temperature, manage intravenous lines, provide drugs and injections etc.)
• Monitor and record patient?s condition and document provided care services
• Treat medical emergencies
• Triage patients to appropriate services within facility and appropriate outside facilities when necessary
• Coordinate patient diagnostic testing and treatment cycles
• Become familiar with and follow care regulations and standard operating procedures
• Be able to communicate complex medical concepts to people of all backgrounds and comply with HIPAA
• Participate in morning monitoring sessions, evening consult sessions and daily IVF procedures
• Provide coverage when necessary including weekends and holidays
• Create new patient learning material and hold educational sessions both in person and by webinar
• Maintain licensure and certification as required by law
• Travel to other sites when necessary
• Identify opportunities for process and quality improvement for patient flow
• Provide excellent customer service
• Coordinate all patient diagnostic testing and assisted reproduction cycles
• Maintain continuity of care and serve as liaison among physicians, patients, laboratory teams, and clinic coordinators
• Assist in the development and maintenance of Cycle Coordinator Program policies, procedures, consent forms, education materials, and marketing plans
• Demonstrate leadership and competence in day-to-day clinical program operations
• Ensure program operations meet all state, federal, and regulatory requirements
• Assist in the development and maintenance of Cycle Coordinator Program policies, procedures, consent forms, education materials, and marketing plans
• Demonstrate leadership and competence in day-to-day clinical program operations
• Ensure daily accountability for patients during the workup phase, before they enter treatment, including tracking ultrasounds, lab tests, physician orders, and other related activities. Ensure daily accountability for infertility/IVF patients during the lead up to the start of fertility treatment, including tracking records, lab tests, ultrasounds, physician orders, and other related activities
• Coordinate patient care and infertility treatment plans with physicians and the remote REI team up to the start of treatment (e.g. egg freezing, IUI, IVF, and egg/sperm donation cycles) utilizing phone, email, text, Zoom, and secure patient portals
• Assist in obtaining necessary SART information and data. Monitors and reports? outcomes assisting with quality assurance
• Other duties as assigned