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The Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant to work collaboratively with cardiologists in an inpatient and outpatient setting.

Hours:Full time, must be able to rotate at the hospital, rotate weekends & must have availability to be on call.

Job Functions:

Under the direction and supervision of a licensed physician, provides cardiac care to patients.

Perform comprehensive inpatient/outpatient visits which include:

Outpatient:

• Conduct comprehensive or episodic health history and physical assessment of patients with acute, chronic and/or cardiac patients with potential health problems.
• Establish medical diagnoses. Write specific orders within the limits of the practice agreement/scope of practice.
• Perform stress testing, provide appropriate direction to office staff regarding patient care issues (triage calls etc. Manages or independently performs evaluative and treatment necessary to provide an appropriate response to life threatening emergency situations until the arrival of emergency response teams.
• Communicates effectively with referring and primary health care providers. Manage independent outpatient clinical practice and coverage for collaborating physicians, including rotating on call weekday/weekend night and weekend coverage.
• Maintain clinical documentation according to group practice.
• Educates patients and families on treatment and wellness care plans

Inpatient:

• Conducts comprehensive health history and physical assessment of patients with acute health problems.
• Performs admission history and physical, develops, manages and modifies treatment plans.
• Participates in daily rounding and collaborates with attending or consulting team to adjust plans of care.
• Manages or independently performs evaluative and treatment necessary to provide an appropriate response to life threatening emergency situations until the arrival of emergency response teams. Facilitates referrals to appropriate community health facilities, agencies and resources.
• Discharges hospitalized patients at the direction of the attending physician.
• Prepares and dictates discharge summaries of patients? hospitalization and clinic care.
• Assists with intraoperative processes and procedures, when needed, and as granted through privileging processes.

Job Summary:

Act as a central point of communication among providers, patients and other team members of our team. Incumbent schedules patients for provider appointments and diagnostic testing utilizing knowledge of medical terminology and practice policies and protocols. Troubleshoots patient concerns and routes calls to the appropriate staff member when needed.

Essential Job Functions:

• Answer large volume of calls promptly.
• Screen all calls for urgency and handle all calls with confidence, compassion and efficiency.
• Schedules patient appointments and diagnostic testing for all providers.
• Collect and verify patient demographic information as well as verify insurance when appropriate.
• Accurately records patient messages and routes them to the provider or appropriate team member.
• Reviews and maintains provider?s schedules according to practice guidelines to ensure patients are scheduled appropriately.

General Summary:

Responsible for performing a variety of duties that may be both clinical and administrative tasks. This includes assisting physicians with patient care and handling clerical, environmental and organizational tasks. Expected to provide information to patients so that they benefit from the clinical services.

Essential Functions:

• Check schedules, organize patient flow, room patients.
• Collect patient history including medications and reason for visit, chart in EMR, relay information
• Check vital signs (blood pressure, pulse, temperature), measure height and weight, take EKGs
• Set up equipment, maintain cleanliness of exam rooms, order supplies, keep exam rooms stocked
• Assist with minor procedures, handle specimens, do CLIA waived tests
• Send and receive medical records, obtain Lab & Test Results
• Ensure patient results are reviewed by physician in a timely manner, provide appropriate followup as directed
• Follow HIPAA guidelines
• Other duties as necessary

The Unit Coordinator will manage schedules for designated unit. Duties and responsibilities include, and are not limited to, ensuring unit schedules reflect updated changes, monitor appointment slot availability as well as weekly and monthly volume. The unit coordinator will handle daily electronic messaging and appointment recalls. The unit coordinator will manage and report recall scheduling and its? productivity within the unit. Authorizations and referrals will be monitored by the unit coordinator.

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This position will report directly to the Senior Administrative Supervisor and will be primarily located at NSC headquarters at 45 Research Way, Suite 206, East Setauket, NY.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Manage unit schedules daily including updating schedules to reflect changes
• Post daily availability within the unit
• Provide accurate weekly and monthly totals performed within the unit.
• Manage physician orders for the uniReview and handle all electronic messages in a timely & efficient manner.
• Process all signed reports including scanning, attaching, faxing, and forwarding to ordering physicians in a timely manner, when appropriate.
• Monitor schedules for cancelations and no shows
• ?Prints all superbills daily for all office locations, ensure all superbills are accurately filled out and sent to the billing office timely
• ?Ensure all waivers are provided to patients, scanned, attached, and sent to the billing office
• Ensures authorizations or referral are obtained prior to patient visit
• Ensures patients are aware of financial responsibility and all communication is documented in the EMR
• Performs all desk responsibilities such as arriving patients for their appointments and collecting copays.
• Creates and manages daily reading schedules for providers
• All other assigned duties and task

Fast paced, large cardiology practice with multiple locations. The applicant should have 1 year minimum of cardiac experience. Certified Exercise Physiologist or eligible to take the exam within one year of hire.

JOB SUMMARY:

Fast paced, large cardiology practice with multiple locations. The applicant should have 1 year minimum of cardiac experience. Certified Exercise Physiologist or eligible to take the exam within one year of hire.

• Candidate for this position will perform diagnostic cardiovascular stress testing
• Must have the ability to interpret and analyze exams, following protocols to provide a preliminary report of findings to the physician
• Will have an independent schedule and should be familiar with day-to-day operations.
• Other additional duties as needed

Fast paced, large cardiology practice with multiple locations. The applicant should have 1 year minimum of cardiac experience. Certified Exercise Physiologist or eligible to take the exam within one year of hire.

JOB SUMMARY:

Fast paced, large cardiology practice with multiple locations. The applicant should have 1 year minimum of cardiac experience. Certified Exercise Physiologist or eligible to take the exam within one year of hire.

• Candidate for this position will perform diagnostic cardiovascular stress testing
• Must have the ability to interpret and analyze exams, following protocols to provide a preliminary report of findings to the physician
• Will have an independent schedule and should be familiar with day-to-day operations.
• Other additional duties as needed

Dynamic RD/RDN sought to pioneer nutrition program at large cardiology practice. Practice’s goal is to establish multiple offerings for counseling including one on one instruction, small, and medium sized classes. Areas of focus to include promotion of weight loss, blood pressure control, lipid optimization, plant based diet, and overall wellness. Clientele to come from pre-existing, well established referral base.

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Essential Job Functions:

• Provide comprehensive and personalized nutrition care and medical nutrition therapy to a variety of patients.
• Educate patients, families, and caregivers in the individual and/or group setting on all aspects of diet and lifestyle.
• Document clinical assessments and progress notes for each patient appointment in an electronic medical record.
• Communicate and collaborate with multidisciplinary team on plans of care.
• Participate in community events, develop nutrition education materials, and compose articles for the NSC newsletter.
• Assist Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation program with nutrition education and cooking classes.

The purpose of this position is to create, maintain, audit and retrieve medical records by gathering appropriate information/forms and auditing charts for completeness and accuracy. Responds to requests for medical records. Candidates must be able to adapt to an ever changing, busy environment. Candidates must be reliable and a team player with a positive attitude, having excellent computer and verbal/written communication skills working closely with front office staff, personnel, physicians and insurance companies.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Scanning/attaching into electronic charts records obtained through fax server or forwarded from other staff in a timely manner making sure documents are placed in correct charts and messages sent to correct staff/departments.
• Process and forward requests for medical records from patients, outside physicians, facilities, legal and insurance offices and handle requests from NSC/SBCM physicians, making sure all proper authorizations have been received.? Scans confirmations
• Utilizing various portals in obtaining medical records requested from providers.
• Reviews schedules in advance, obtaining, scanning, and noting the necessary clinical information for physicians to abstract.
• Review and handle all electronic messages in a timely & efficient manner.
• Process all signed testing including scanning, attaching, faxing, and forwarding to ordering physicians in a timely manner.
• Responds to request for medical records, processes letters and reports, answers and directs telephone calls in the department.
• Print providers? daily schedules. Proof, format, and fax outgoing letters and correspondence with accuracy. ?Send messages to providers to electronically sign their office progress notes.
• Keeps supervisor informed of problems or issues.
• Complies with federal HIPAA regulation and polices for privacy and security of patient information.

The Registered Nurse collaborates with the physicians in an office setting.

Essential Job Functions:

• Under the direction and supervision of a license physician or Nurse Practitioner, provides health care to patients including diagnosis and treatment.
• Obtains medical histories, performs physical examinations, makes diagnosis and orders appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests.
• Review test results.
• Provides patient education about underlying medical conditions.
• Instructs and counsels patients regarding therapeutic regimens, promoting wellness and health maintenance.
• Places patient in exam room and documents reason for the visit.
• Measures patients? height, weight and all vital signs.
• Gather/enter/document patient information in the EMR.
• Administers immunizations/medications as needed.
• Prepares and administers allergy injections, skin testing and patch testing.
• The Registered Nurse will perform other duties as assigned by supervising physicians.
• Ensure HIPPA guidelines are followed at all times.

• Under the direction and supervision of a license physician, provides health care to patients including diagnosis and treatment.
• Under the supervision of physician, obtains medical histories, performs physical examinations, makes diagnosis and orders appropriate and standard laboratory and diagnostic procedures as necessary in the office.
• Evaluates procedure results and finding to physicians.
• Provides continuity of care by developing and implementing patient?s plan of care.
• Provides patient education about underlying medical condition, self-management of acute or chronic illnesses and tailors instructions to patients? individual circumstances. Instructs and counsels patients regarding therapeutic regimens, promoting wellness and health maintenance.
• Prescribes medications.
• Administers medication/immunizations, suturing, managing wounds and infections, etc.
• Documents exam and progress notes. Provides referral letters as needed.
• In addition to office visits, the Nurse Practitioner will perform other tests and procedures specific to the specialty.
• Collects, monitors and reports on patient outcomes.
• Functions independently to perform age-appropriate history and physical for complex acute, critical, and chronically ill patients.
• Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patient?s age-specific needs.
• Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities.
• Implements interventions to support the patient to regain or maintain physiologic stability, including but not limited to serving in the first assisting role.
• Facilitates the patient?s transition within and between health care settings, e.g. admitting, transferring and discharging patients.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members by making appropriate referrals.
• Facilitates staff, patient and family decision making by providing educational tools.
• Other duties as assigned by supervising physicians.
• Ensure HIPAA guidelines are followed at all times.