Cardiovascular Coordinator - Quality & Safety

Job Description

Maintains a professional image and exhibits excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, physicians, and co‑workers in accordance with Service Excellence Standards and Core Values.

• Promote the use of the process approach and risk‑based thinking.
• Engage, direct, and support persons to contribute to the effectiveness of the quality management system requirements.
• Promote improvement initiatives within the organization.
• Utilize nursing knowledge to collect and organize data through various methods to support clinical and process improvement initiatives, such as complications, readmissions, and specific program metrics.
• Analyze data and reports, both retrospective and concurrent, on the specified patient population to identify trends and performance improvement opportunities; prioritize opportunities for improvement based on reviewed information.
• Work with key stakeholders/teams to develop action plans to improve performance and achieve loop closure.
• Collaborate with members of the health care team to ensure that care is provided in accordance with clinical guidelines, regulatory/certifying agencies, and organizational standards.
• Assist with implementation and education plans of improvement initiatives, including education of nurses, staff, and physicians, policy changes, and equipment needs.
• Lead and participate in data sharing, planning, and implementation with multidisciplinary committees.
• Lead the accreditation process and program for Chest Pain and TVT.
• Implement and maintain MRMC as a STEMI receiving hospital and work with area STEMI referral hospitals and EMS agencies.
• Develop, implement, and educate the overall clinical flow of the STEMI program in collaboration with administrative leadership.
• Develop a communication network with the Cath Lab, ED, appropriate nursing units, referring hospitals, EMS services, and physicians.
• Collaborate on outreach efforts with Emergency Departments and EMS services in the communities served by McLeod Health.
• Develop a Chest Pain and TAVR quality assurance and improvement program plan with the service line, focusing on quality of care, patient outcomes, and ensuring patient follow‑up.
• Lead and implement community and patient educational events and represent McLeod Health in educational seminars at local, regional, and national conferences, as applicable.
• Attend and prepare information for monthly and quarterly multidisciplinary team meetings, such as Cardiovascular M&M, Registry meetings, STEMI, TVT, and HVI steering meetings.

• Minimum of 3–5 years involved in the direct care of the ACS patient in either the ED, Cath Lab, CCU, or telemetry units.

• Valid South Carolina RN license and BLS certification.
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing.

80 hours bi‑weekly.

We are an equal opportunity employer.