Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

The Registered Nurse Coordinator for our Primary Stroke Designation is a dynamic leadership role that contributes to the operational management of stroke care throughout the network, to support an environment of excellent patient care. A candidate for this role should be comfortable providing patient care, managing staff, making decisions independently, and assuming managerial duties as necessary.

Organization Highlights:

• Our Trinity Health Culture: Our staff know, understand, incorporate & demonstrate our Trinity Health Mission, Values, Vision, through their actions, behaviors, practices & decisions. Our Unit practice counsels, and open-door guiding principle gives all our employees a voice.
• Environment of Care: Practice in an environmentally safe, professional & healthy atmosphere. Only local hospital to receive a Leapfrog A for safety.
• Professional Relationships: Strong rapport with all provider groups.
• Professional Development: Strong orientation program and generous tuition allowance. We encourage job share opportunities to enhance satisfaction and growth.
• Work/Life: Predictable patterned scheduling options balance work/life/school calendars.

Responsibilities:

• Acts as a liaison with EMS to coordinate and evaluate pre-hospital care related to stroke services and comply with programs established by regional EMS providers.
• Responsibility for collecting, storing and reporting data collection and for quality improvement of the stroke program.
• Ensures compliance with all healthcare standards and requirements established by various licensing, regulatory, and accreditation bodies.
• Maintains a working knowledge of policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior.
• Assists unit-based leadership to engage staff and promote evidenced based practice for stroke care across the network.
• Works to identify problems, offers solutions, and participates in their resolution.
• Oversees Primary Stroke Center specific quality data. Acts as a quality facilitator, conducts quality, and program reviews.
• Chairs the stroke committee and facilitates and organizes group discussion surrounding care of the stroke patient.
• Collaborates with unit leadership and educational colleagues to ensures compliance with initial and annual educational requirements specific to stroke.
• Responds to urgent/emergent situations in conjunction with unit leaders, to ensure quality and expedient care delivery for the stroke care.

Education, Training, Experience, Certification and Licensure:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing required with one to two years progressive experience in the field. Advanced degree is a plus/requirement, depending on specific service needs and/or requirements. Ideally the candidate will have some supervisory experience.
• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing and current licensure as a Registered Nurse in New York State.
• Participates in orientation and continuing education and updates and maintains knowledge and skills related to specific areas of expertise. Completes population specific competency annually on populations served as identified in scope of care and services.
• Maintain all certifications appropriate to field.
• Clinical Ladder participation preferred.
• Participates in orientation and continuing education and updates and maintains knowledge and skills related to specific areas of expertise as applicable, including but not limited to Stroke & Heartburn Center.

Career Path:

• Clinical ladder advancement with experience, and national certification opportunities.
• Career advancement to senior leadership roles such as Manager, Director or Administrative roles.

Mission Statement:

• We, St Joseph's Health and Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Vision:

• To be world-renowned for passionate patient care and outstanding clinical outcomes.

Core Values:

• In the spirit of good Stewardship, we heal by practicing Justice in fostering right relationships to promote common good, Reverence in honoring the dignity of every person, Excellence in expecting the best of ourselves and others; Integrity in being faithful to who we say we are.

Work Environment and Hazards:

• Clinical setting. Exposure Class I

Physical Demands:

• Medium work: must be able to lift 25 pounds frequently; occasionally lifting maximum of 50 pounds. Will require ability to stand, walk, sit, bend, twist, squat and reach.

Work Contact Group:

• All services, medical staff, patients, visitors, and various regulatory and professional agencies.

Supervised By: Cardiac Service Line Director.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.