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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.

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