Stephanie Mccool Email & Phone Number

Flourtown, Pennsylvania, United States

Guardian Nurses Healthcare Advocates ® is an organization dedicated to helping patients and their families through the maze of today's non-user friendly healthcare system.Offering unique, personal service to private clients as well as corporations, EAPs, benefit brokers and unions, our nurse advocates provide their expertise, support, guidance and compassion to their patients. Whether you are struggling with a serious illness, wondering what to do with an aging, elderly parent, or trying to understand why your insurance company didn't pay for something, we can help!We're nurses, after all. Helping people is what we do!• Performs all care coordination, disease management, and case management functions telephonically or in-person, as appropriate. Assesses patients’ needs and establishes goals for each case. Reassesses patient’s status and reviews plan of care on open cases at scheduled intervals. Documents activities correctly and communicates to appropriate resources.• Works with patients, and their families, to develop a plan of care in consultation with other disciplines, social work, insurers, and health care team, as necessary. Counsels patient to consider care solutions representing best value in terms of both quality and cost of services being considered.• Recognizes, supports, develops, and mobilizes informal and formal resources to meet patients’ needs.• Arranges for needs services and entitlements, working cooperatively with patient, family and service providers. • Inputs necessary data and maintains automated software programs for patient tracking and organizational record keeping.• Provides emotional support through relationships with patients and caregivers.• Monitor patient satisfaction to ensure quality of services provided.• Takes ownership for the completion of each Quarterly Summary report.• Works collaboratively with leadership to review Program data results and provide feedback in a timely manner.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Assess, screen and consent patients for TAVR (transcatheter aortic valve replacement) procedures in outpatient clinic and inpatient hospital setting.• Supervised and delegated to TAVR team, including Medical Assistant’s and Administrative Assistant’s, to ensure work was complete.• Educate patients and their families on the TAVR procedure and on other types of cardiac surgery.• Assist and serve as primary contact for patients and their families from first consult through OR and five years of post-operative follow up.• Coordinate care between multiple doctors to ensure TAVR work up is complete for all patients.• Responsible for maintaining OR schedule and working to ensure there is representative coverage at each OR case.• Responsible for maintaining statistical data related to the TAVR program, including mortality and morbidity statistics and adverse events.• Maintain communication between Materials Management and multiple company representatives to ensure proper device ordering and storage for each case.• Complete power point presentations on each potential TAVR patient and present each patient at weekly multi-site meetings.• Currently responsible for a case load of approximately 50 preoperative patients, and approximately 600 post-operative patients.• Enter all applicable data into the TVT Registry for CMS oversight.

Philadelphia

• Screen, consent, and enroll patients in multiple trials within the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery. • Coordinate follow up appointments for patients enrolled in clinical studies. • Responsible for device accountability, sterile opening of devices, patient assessment and data collection in the operating room.• Complete Data submission to multiple online databases for current clinical trials. • Maintain regulatory documents required by the FDA, NIH, and the University of Pennsylvania’s IRB. • Maintain statistical data for cardiac surgery patients enrolled in clinical trials. • Supervise and delegate to multiple Clinical Research Coordinator’s and Administrative Assistant’s on the Cardiovascular Surgery team.• Currently serves as lead coordinator to three large cardiovascular device trials, with approximately 115 patients currently enrolled to this date• Currently overseeing and supervising six other large cardiovascular trials to provide support to other Clinical Research Coordinators and Research Assistants.• Serves as educator and lead preceptor for new staff who are hired to work for the research team at Penn Presbyterian Hospital.• Functions as the interim coordinator for the Commercial Transthoracic Aortic Valve Replacement team which has been responsible for over 100 surgical implants since 2013.• Facilitate and coordinate weekly team meetings to discuss upcoming surgical cases.

Philadelphia

• Monitored the utilization of care on-site by being proactively involved in the concurrent review of each member admitted to the hospital.• Interviewed and assessed members to identify and intervene in the care of high risk members to prevent rehospitalization.• Completed system authorizations, documentation and updates using InterQual Criteria.• Collaborated with Bravo Insurance and Hospital Team to prepare for safe discharge by ensuring members had access to ordered alternate level of care placements, DME, home health, prescriptions and follow up appointments.• Served as a preceptor for all new employees to ensure adequate and proper training.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Managed a patient load of 30 patients and collaborated with the patient’s health care team to ensure optimal patient care for effective outcomes and reduction in rehospitalization.• Independently assessed patients for signs and symptoms of complications and was responsible for notifying the health care team of any significant changes.• Responsible for nursing visits daily in which OASIS Process Quality Measures were used to ensure patient health and satisfaction.• Collected data which were used to statistical analysis to improve patient outcomes.• Served as a member on the Performance Improvement Committee to devise new ideas and methods that would ensure the agency and the care provided is to its’ highest standard.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Assessed and triaged injured patients in a timely manner.• Functioned as a case manager to organize patient referrals and care.• Performed physical assessments and drug screens.• Assisted in suture placement and removal, wound care and splint placement.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Cared for mom and baby during and after the labor process.• Circulated in the OR and functioned as a recovery room nurse during planned and emergency procedures.• Functioned as a triage nurse in the fast paced Prenatal Evaluation and Treatment Unit.• Cared for critically ill pregnant patients in the High Risk Unit.

Bachelor Of Science In Nursing, Nursing

Activities and Societies: Sigma Theta Tau Graduated Summa cum laude

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing

Anticipated graduation 2025