Nurse Coordinator - Heart & Vascular
Additional Information About The Role
As part of the Heart and Vascular Administration team, the Clinical Nurse Coordinator ensures accurate, complete, and timely submission of clinical data to national cardiovascular registries (NCDR and VQI). This role plays a key part in performance monitoring and quality improvement initiatives within the heart and vascular service line. This is an excellent opportunity to provide patient impact through quality improvement.
Responsibilities
- Review electronic medical records to extract, validate, and submit data to national registries (NCDR, VQI).
- Support supervisor, management, and performance improvement teams on quality and data projects.
- Train and mentor new and existing abstraction staff; provide ongoing updates on evolving registry guidelines.
- Serve as subject matter expert for abstraction processes, including inclusion/exclusion criteria, validation rules, and submission time-lines.
- Conduct inter-rater reliability and quality audits to ensure data accuracy and regulatory compliance.
- Maintain current knowledge of abstraction standards from CMS, The Joint Commission, and AHA Get With The Guidelines, programs.
- Daily interaction with Excel, EPIC, Metric reporting and presentations.
Requirements
Prior experiene with NCDR, VQI or similar national registries is a plus!
Prior experience with cardiovascular, vascular, or operating room nursing is preferred.
Qualifications
- Education: Nursing Diploma/Associate's Nursing
- Experience: 2-5 years
- Licenses & Certifications: RN
Skills
Prior experience with NCDR, VQI or similar national registries is a plus!
Prior experience with cardiovascular, vascular, or operating room nursing is preferred.
Benefits
BJC Total Rewards
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
- Disability insurance*
- Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
- 401(k) plan with BJC match
- Tuition Assistance available on first day
- BJC Institute for Learning and Development
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
- Adoption assistance
Legal Statement
Equal Opportunity Employer