RN Stroke Program Coordinator - Neuro - Full- Time

Job Summary

The Stroke Coordinator assures that patients presenting to Erlanger with risks/symptoms of stroke receive optimal care, using established standards and organizational goals. The Stroke Coordinator must maintain a high degree of personal effectiveness and staff effectiveness in the prompt recognition and care of stroke or non-stroke emergencies to include: blood pressure management, administration of thrombolytic agents, and research. Functions as regional and intra-hospital Coordinator for Stroke Program.

About the Role

Functions as regional and intra-hospital Coordinator for Stroke Program. In doing so, plans, organizes, and implements continuity of stroke care to include involvement in continuous process improvement; patient, public, and professional education; protocol development; weekly interdisciplinary stroke rounds; and maintains positive relations among affiliated Network hospitals and medical centers, physicians, Medical Center personnel and external agencies to ensure appropriate design and promotion of programs.

Responsibilities

• Develops and revises critical pathways and protocols for various case types utilizing appropriate information.
• Evaluates patient care team's compliance with department standards and evaluated team performance against established performance standards/ expectations.
• Attends internal and external educational meetings and reads professional resources in order to maintain and enhance nursing skills and clinical competencies.
• Monitors trends and ensures patient outcomes are achieved/maintained based on established levels of quality.
• Serves as a liaison with administration, network engineers, support personnel and vendors exchanging information and identifying problems or needs related to clinical and educational telehealth program activity.
• Maintains awareness of the telemedicine program status and potential problems.
• Supervises and implements quality improvement activities, provides reports to appropriate personnel, analyzes and identifies critical factors of services to facilitate enhancement of the quality of programs offered.
• Plans measurable program related goals and coordinates annual needs assessments.
• Develops, interprets, evaluates and assists in the implementation of protocols, standards and guidelines that facilitate appropriate and timely quality telehealth services.
• Participates on ad hoc committees as required to develop plans or further promote the telehealth/ stroke program on a regional basis.
• Participates in outreach, public speaking and promotion of telehealth.
• Maintains the role of facilitator and trouble shooter to outside participants (rural hospitals, community clinicians, and outside agencies to promote a regional telehealth network).
• Develops strong relationships with hospital staff throughout the region, coordinates and links services and resources of Erlanger Health System with the needs of regional hospitals, provides on-site consultation with regional hospital staff regarding available Stroke, telemedicine and distance learning programs, assist in developing tools to assess the changing needs of regional hospitals, market telemedicine and distance learning programs and provide training sessions to assist regional hospitals in accessing programs.
• In collaboration with the Medical Director, develops a stroke plan and monitors the effectiveness of stroke care. The stroke plan should include pre-hospital through discharge and should address secondary prevention issues.
• Makes sure to monitor key indicators to assess number and type of stroke patients seen, treatment, timelines, and patient outcomes.
• Serves as a patient and community advocate by providing public education concerning stroke prevention and care.

Qualifications

Education: Required: Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing, BSN Preferred: Master's Degree Experience: Required: Five years nursing appropriate to the specialty Preferred: N/A Position Requirement(s): License/Certification/Registration Required: Current license to practice nursing in the state of Tennessee. RN The Nurse Licensure Compact will not change how to obtain or renew a Tennessee license. However, the Tennessee nursing license will be a single state license for Tennessee Residents or non-compact state residents. Tennessee licensure or multistate licensure from a compact state must be obtained within three months of hire for non-Tennessee residents.