Registered Nurse Stroke Disease Coordinator

Registered Nurse Stroke Disease Coordinator

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It is an exciting time to be a nurse at HCA Healthcare! Come unlock your career potential and see how rewarding it can be to reach your personal and professional goals. Help to advance the practice of nursing and improve positive outcomes for your patients as a Registered Nurse Stroke Disease Coordinator. We want your knowledge and expertise!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Stroke Disease Management Coordinator provides leadership and promotes excellence in patient care of neurological disease conditions in the Emergency Department, ICU, Medical Surgical Units and other entities within the organization. This position is responsible for planning, development and implementation of short and long-term program goals of the Stroke Center Designation. The Disease Management Coordinator coordinates education of staff and physicians and oversees the ongoing quality improvement process to improve patient care. This position ensures compliance with the accreditation standards and collects and reports data to external agencies (as required) and internal committees.

General Responsibilities:

• Serve as a resource to physicians, nurses, educators, and leaders on evidenced based measures to support the Stroke program.
• Identify educational and process improvement opportunities that support compliance with program measures. Use the PDCA methodology to plan and evaluate process changes.
• Coordinate with nursing staff and hospital leaders to establish and implement standardized, evidence-based processes/protocols.
• Analyze, trend, and report data to various hospital committees (PI Committee, Stroke Committee, ED Department Meetings, etc.).
• Chair of the hospital Stroke Committee.
• Prepare and present in-service and training sessions as required and requested.
• Interact with outside organizations including American Heart Association, American Stroke Association, Capital Area Trauma Regional Advisory Council (CATRAC), Mission Lifeline, and additional organizations as assigned.
• Performs daily and retro concurrent chart review to ensure compliance with evidence-based program measures for Stroke.
• Retrospectively abstract data from the medical record (HPF, Meditech, etc.) and enter data into the appropriate vendor database (Comet, GWTG, etc).
• Manage data registries as needed.
• Perform Inter-Rater Reliability chart review.
• Ensures all data reporting timelines are met (IRR, normalization, etc).
• Collaborate with clinical staff, physicians, and leaders to ensure evidence-based measures are met in a timely manner.
• Interact and/or serve as a point person with external abstraction companies as needed, i.e. Q-Centrix.
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of the Stroke accreditation requirements.
• Obtain and maintain required CEUs for accreditation requirements.
• Compile and submit accreditation program application, performance improvement data, and measures of success as required.
• Perform tracers to evaluate hospital compliance with regulatory standards.
• Learn and perform additional duties within the Quality Management department that assist with critical needs, staff shortages, and/or holiday coverage.
• Attend/lead nursing unit quality rounds as needed, i.e. Golden Hour
• Attend and actively participate in monthly staff meetings, and attend called departmental meetings when necessary.
• Attend and participate in facility committees, employee forums and departmental meetings as requested.
• Implement organization's principles of good communication and customer service standards, including use of AIDET and KWAKT as developed by the department.
• Maintains compliance with required licensure, ethics and compliance training, Employee Health screening/requirements and mandatory education as required.
• Employee's conduct must reflect the company's values and a commitment to the Code of Conduct ethics and compliance program.
• Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Collect, interpret and analyze data.
• Ability to apply critical thinking skills to process improvement and decision making.
• Ability to cope effectively with crisis and emergency situations.
• Knowledge of general hospital operations.
• Must be able to demonstrate understanding of national patient safety initiatives by strict compliance to all safety protocols and procedures as required by both HCA and St. David's North Austin Medical Center.
• Computer skills: Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint; Adobe Acrobat

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Required: Graduate of accredited nursing school with Nursing Diploma, Associates Degree or higher-level education.
• Preferred: Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Prior job experience demonstrating leadership, management, and successful communication and interpersonal skills.
• Minimum of three years relevant clinical experience (Med/Surg, neuro, ICU and/ED experience preferred.)

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES:

• Required: Currently licensed as a registered professional nurse in the state(s) of practice and/or has an active compact license, in accordance with law and regulation. FT/PT/PRN colleagues with a compact license from a state other than Texas must:
• apply for Texas RN license within 60 days from hire
• obtain current TX RN license within 6 months of application for TX RN license

St. Davids North Austin Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it." - Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

St. David's North Austin Medical Center, part of St. David's HealthCare, is a full-service medical center providing comprehensive medical care at two locations – St. David's North Austin Medical Center and St. David's Surgical Hospital. St. David's North Austin Medical Center is a 460+ bed, multi-specialty, acute care hospital. It provides advanced women's health services, including maternity and newborn care with Level I, II, and III neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) at the nearby St. David's Women's Center of Texas. The hospital also offers minimally invasive gynecological surgery and comprehensive breast imaging through Solis Mammography, which is located on-site. Other services include a 24-hour emergency department, pediatric emergency care, and intensive care at St. David's Children's Hospital . The hospital also features the Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery, bariatric (weight loss) surgery, a Heart and Vascular Center, neurology and neurosurgery, a kidney transplant program, a Level IV Epilepsy Center, as well as inpatient and outpatient surgery and acute rehabilitation services for both inpatients and outpatients.

St. David's Women's Center of Texas, located at St. Davids North Austin Medical Center, is recognized by the State of Texas as a Level IV Maternal Facility. This means it provides the highest level of care for pregnant and postpartum patients, especially those with serious or complex medical, surgical, or pregnancy-related conditions, including those at high risk for maternal morbidity or mortality. The center includes a 95+ bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with 30+ private rooms, 10+ rooms for very small babies, and 10+ beds for babies needing neurological