RN Stroke Program Manager - Neuro- Full-Time

Job Summary

The Stroke Manager assures that patients presenting to Erlanger Health System with risks/symptoms of stroke receive optimal care, using established standards and organizational goals. The function of the Stroke Manager is to 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 Manager for Stroke Program.

About the Role

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

• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide patient care that is appropriate to the ages of the patients served.
• Responsible for standardizing stroke care throughout Erlanger Health System.
• Manages the Telemedicine and Distance Learning Program.
• Develops and implements cerebral vascular related policies and procedures.
• Evaluates patient care team’s compliance with department standards and evaluated team performance against established performance standards/expectations.
• Supports and is involved in the Medical Center’s continuous quality improvement efforts designed to increase patient outcomes, increase patient satisfaction, and improve the utilization of the Health System’s human, capital, and physical resources in delivering quality patient care.
• 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.
• Serves as a patient and community advocate by providing public education concerning stroke prevention and care.

Requirements

• Education: Required: Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing, Bachelor's Degree in Nursing or other allied health field, or other related field Stroke Program Manager Department Specific Education Requirements: 4 hours annually stroke/cerebrovascular specific education
• Experience: Required: Five years nursing appropriate to the specialty
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Qualifications

• License/Certification/Registration: Current license to practice nursing in the state of Tennessee. RN

Skills

• Knowledge of stroke care and management
• Ability to organize, prioritize, meet deadlines and work with members of teams
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective analytical abilities
• Ability to develop and implement policies and procedures
• Strong leadership and management skills

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

Not specified

Schedule

Regular