Education & Training
Columbia HeartSource provides clients with training, guidance, and assistance in meeting their program's needs, as determined by our assessment.
Columbia and its Columbia HeartSource Community (CHSC) affiliates conduct a full schedule of educational events, conferences, and regular meetings, all of which are open to HeartSource clients.
These include:
These include
- Grand rounds and training sessions for surgeons and nursing staff
- Proctoring in the surgical setting
- Clinical workshops
- CME and staff training
- Morbidity/mortality conferences
- Protocols
- Review of cases as needed
- Tailored cardiothoracic nurse education programs based on the Novice to Expert model
These events are available live and/or through videoconference and a web-based archive of past videoconferences.
CHSC affiliates meet annually. Locations of these meetings are rotated among affiliated hospitals, increasing a sense of connection among colleagues.
Training for Surgeons
Participation in educational events keeps surgeons current in clinical technique and provides opportunities for them to expand their skills.
CHSC's Advanced Cardiac Workshop is a unique, hands-on training experience that allows a surgeon from a HeartSource client institution to scrub in on cases at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.
The workshop's benefits include:
- The surgeon returns to his home institution with first-hand experience.
- The surgeon makes a personal connection with the surgeons at Columbia upon whom he will be able to call 24/7 for assistance.
- Columbia Department of Surgery faculty, who hold privileges at HeartSource client institutions, can scrub in and observe cases at those facilities, further expanding training and oversight opportunities.
Programs for surgeons also include regularly scheduled meetings, such as Columbia's CT conferences, which are held every Thursday morning.
Members may attend in person, participate via videoconference, or access online archives.
Several of these conferences offer Continuing Medical Education(CME) credits for participation.
Category I credit is offered for the regularly scheduled catheterization conference, and category II credit is offered for the weekly CT conference.
Training for Nursing and Other Clinical Staff
| After learning about surgical atrial fibrillation ablation (SAFA) at a cardiac workshop, Dr. Robert Lancey, a surgeon at Columbia HeartSource Community affiliate Bassett Hospital, wanted to learn how to conduct the procedure.
Dr. Lancey has traveled twice to Columbia to train with Dr. Michael Argenziano, and plans to perform SAFA in Cooperstown, where Bassett is located.
Such training opportunities afford professional growth for surgeons at small hospitals, hospitals that in turn benefit by being able to provide–and bill for–more services. |
Nursing staff have similar opportunities for observation and oversight.
HeartSource will assess existing nursing resources and work with each affiliate to optimize nursing and allied health care professionals in their delivery of evidence-based care.
- HeartSource client hospitals are invited to send their nurses to NYPH/CUMC to work with nurses in the Cardiothoracic Surgery Division.
In the clinical area, they can work with a preceptor and gain hands-on experience.
Our philosophy in nursing education is based on the Novice to Expert model, which gives our clients' nurses the opportunity to build on pre-existing skill sets as they transition into the field of cardiothoracic surgery.
- We can also accommodate nurses new to the critical care area by individualizing programs based on their learning needs and the needs of their home institution.
- HeartSource's Nurse Manager for CQI/Education travels to the HeartSource client institution and works with members of their education team in optimizing an educational program specific to their needs.
- Continuing education is offered in the form of monthly nursing grand rounds with separate presentations for both the critical care and telemetry nurses.
- Additional educational opportunities are available to nurses who wish to study for certification in this specialty.
Administrator Training
Administrators from CHSC affiliate hospitals have full access to HeartSource staff in New York, and upon request, can be put in contact with administrators at CUMC and others in the CHSC for training or assistance.
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