Registered Nurse - Program Coordinator Stroke

Mclaren-Health-Care; Mount Clemens (MI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Health Care in Michigan seeks a Registered Nurse - Program Coordinator Stroke to support educational and quality improvement activities within the stroke program. The role focuses on improving care outcomes, staff education, and coordination with network affiliates.

You will develop educational programs, mentor staff, and assist in data collection and reporting to meet accreditation standards and improve patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• BSN required; Michigan RN license.
• 3–5 years clinical experience in stroke or related field.
• Preferred MSN or NP and NIHSS certification.

Responsibilities

• Develop and monitor educational programs for patients with neurological disorders, including stroke and related conditions.
• Mentor staff and ensure adherence to stroke policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Prepare affiliate dashboards and participate in stroke center research and reporting.

Skills

Nursing

Clinical coordination

Quality reporting

Education

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Licensed to practice in Michigan

MSN/NP preferred

Job description

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

Registered Nurse - Program Coordinator Stroke

Scheduled Bi-Weekly Hours: 80 hours-Salaried

Daily Work Times: 8am to 4pm

Position Summary:

The Stroke Coordinator is responsible for supporting the activities focused on improving and reporting stroke care outcomes.Provides outcomes reports and identifies performance and process improvement opportunities.Provides stroke education to staff and community and participates in stroke center research.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Development and monitoring of provision of ongoing educational programs for patients with neurological disorders, including stroke, aneurysm and other neurological conditions as served by the program.
• Mentoring and support for staff serving in the stroke program, including orientation to stroke policies/procedures, stroke program standards and evidence based medicine with regard to stroke treatment guidelines and best practices.
• Community based educational programs including EMS carriers and outreach for stroke prevention, at least once per year.
• Support education of EMR for telemedicine program with network affiliates and staff as indicated.
• Assist in development and provision of stroke education programs for McLaren Macomb and McLaren Stroke Network affiliates as indicated.
• Prepares stroke program clinical outcomes reports for metrics that are monitored for the Macomb and the McLaren Telestroke Network.
• Works with the Stroke Medical Director/ED Director/Stroke Network Directors to develop, implement and utilize appropriate clinical pathways for neuro/stroke patients based on stroke program accreditation standards and evidence based medicine.
• Reviews compliance of care delivery protocols for all Stroke Network stroke alerts by reviewing documentation and reporting variances, as indicated.
• Compiles, analyzes and evaluates quality and clinical data to identify patterns or trends; ensures the accuracy and completeness of data used for measuring and reporting physician and stroke program outcomes.
• Provides real time abstraction of required data elements for patients receiving IV-tPA, mechanical thrombectomy or aneurysmal coiling to provide timing feedback and achievement of Joint Commission and evidence based practice standards of care.
• Works with external data abstractors regarding fall out cases and assists in optimizing provider documentation to meet standards.
• Manages process for follow up phone calls to stroke patients after discharge ensuring stroke certification standards are met and analyzes data obtained for dashboard reports and other programmatic needs as indicated.
• Prepares affiliate dashboard for achievement of stroke care targets, monthly.
• Participates in stroke center research studies, in coordination with Stroke Center MedicalDirectors and Institutional Review Board
• Works collaboratively with Quality Management for cases for review for NeuroScienceQuality Improvement Committee for appropriate documentation and communication of these reviews, monthly.
• Participates in Medical Center and/or departmental quality assessments and continuous quality improvement opportunities, goal setting, collection and evaluation of data,implementation of action plans, or related applications.
• Performs other duties as required or requested.

Required:

• Bachelor of Science Nursing
• Licensure to practice in the State of Michigan
• Three to five years of related clinical experience

Preferred:

• Master of Science Nursing, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Advanced Practice Nurse or Nurse Practitioner
• NIHSS certification

• Schedule: Full-time
• Daily Work Times: 8:00am to 4:00pm
• On Call: No

Equal Opportunity Employer

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.