Registered Nurse Stroke Disease Coordinator

As the nation’s largest private employer of Registered Nurses, we’re honored by the trust of over 100,000 nurses and committed to supporting safe, high-quality care for which they can practice. That’s why more than 80% of our hospitals earn an A or B Leapfrog safety grade, rank in the top 5% nationally for patient outcomes through Health Grades, or are recognized as Magnet or Pathway to Excellence facilities.

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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 (an) Registered Nurse Stroke Disease Coordinator. We want your knowledge and expertise!

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.

• 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…