Regional Acute Pain Nurse Navigator - Children's Pre/Post

About the role

Responsible for the facilitation and coordination of services provided to patients on the acute/regional pain management service. Include quality monitoring and implementation of strategies to enhance patient experience, patient safety, and program growth.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with physicians, nursing staff, and other health care providers to ensure comprehensive, coordinated patient care to promote improved acute pain management.
• Works with physicians and nurses to facilitate block procedures.
• Aids physicians in coordination of services, provides continuity of care to regional anesthesia service patients.
• Responds to calls for regional anesthesia/perioperative patients.
• Conducts proactive assessments of analgesia and its side effects.
• Serves as primary contact for regional anesthesia/acute pain service.
• Conducts quality monitoring and implements strategies to enhance patient experience, patient safety, and program growth.
• Collaborates with physicians, nursing staff, and other health care providers to ensure comprehensive, coordinated patient and family education.
• Promotes excellence in practice related to pain by role-modeling advanced skills and providing instruction and expertise in dealing with complex problems.
• Attends regional anesthesia service rounds and assists with patient care.
• Aids physicians in coordination of services, provides continuity of care to regional anesthesia/acute pain patients.
• Provides daily rounds to assess patient care.
• Designs and implements educational programs for the department of nursing and patient education related to regional anesthesia.
• Conducts proactive assessments of regional analgesia and its side effects.
• Adjusts pain therapy or treatment of side effects according to treatment algorithm and reassess interventions.
• Provides consultation to the interdisciplinary team regarding management of the acute pain patient population.
• Aids Regional anesthesia director in development of goals, policies, protocols, and standards.
• Proactive in maintaining current knowledge in theory and practice in acute pain management.
• Orients/mentors interdisciplinary health care team members regarding care management of acute pain.
• Maintains program standards, policies, and procedures in collaboration with interdisciplinary team.
• Participates in house-wide Pain Committee and other Committees as assigned.
• Reports outcomes of acute pain management with regional blocks to Pain Committee.
• Determines appropriate methods to measure, analyze and interpret data to ensure that expected outcomes are achieved.
• Performs data collection and analysis to monitor and improve patient outcomes with the acute pain population receiving blocks.
• Establishes and implements action plan based on data analysis and interpretation.
• Leads or participates in Performance Improvement projects as appropriate.
• Identifies strategies to enhance perianesthesia patient and provider satisfaction.

Qualifications

• MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Current Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which services will be provided or current multi-state Registered Nurse license through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
  • Obtain certification in Basic Life Support within 30 days of hire date.
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Education, Certification, and/or Licensure: Certification in area of specialty.
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
  • Experience: Five (5) years of nursing experience in critical care or perioperative care.