Transport RN Coordinator

25 Driscoll Healthcare Services; Edinburg (TX); In loco; USD 75.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

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Driscoll Children’s Hospital in South Texas is seeking a Transport Clinical Coordinator to guide clinical best practices for the Transport Program. You will work with physicians and receiving teams to ensure training, certifications, and evidence-based standards are met, and you will help measure outcomes and drive improvements.

Candidates should have a minimum of 5 years in Transport Critical Care with neonatal/pediatric/adult experience; a BA/BS is preferred.

Competenze

• Minimum of 5 years Transport Critical Care experience with neonatal, pediatric, adult experience or combination.
• Bachelor's degree in related field preferred.

Mansioni

• Establish clinical best practice for the Transport Program.
• Serve as resource to medical teams on clinical matters.
• Coordinate training, certifications, and education.
• Gather and trend quality data to drive performance improvements.
• Collaborate with physicians and staff to ensure standards are met.

Conoscenze

Transport Critical Care

Neonatal Care

Pediatric Care

Adult Care

Team Collaboration

Formazione

Bachelor's degree

Strumenti

BLS

ACLS

PALS

NRP

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Where compassion meets innovation and technology and our employees are family. Thank you for your interest in joining our team! Please review the job information below.

GENERAL PURPOSE OF JOB: Through research and evidence based practice, guides and establishes clinical best practice for the Transport Program. The Transport Clinical Coordinator serves as a key resource to medical team members on clinical matters. He/she is directly responsible to assure all training and certifications meet or exceed standards, gathers relevant quality data to trend clinical demands, deficiencies, and develops related education and training to improve overall clinical practice. The Transport Clinical Coordinator works directly with physician medical directors, and primary receiving physicians, to measure clinical outcomes and performance improvements. He/she is cross trained in neonatal and pediatric care and meets the requirements of the Transport Coordinator duties as outlined in this job description. The Transport Clinical Coordinator reports directly to the Transport Director and works closely with peer Coordinators.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; employees will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and/or hospital administration as required.

• Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates business practices and personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.
• Identifies essential relationships and/or sees the variations in clinical patterns for Neonatal, Pediatric, and Adult patient populations.
• Displays intuitive grasp of patient’s status, based on broad knowledge base and expertise.
• Evaluates clinical practice and follows through with modifications, procedure and clinical guidelines that reflect evidence-based and research-based best practice.
• Participates actively in process improvement, transport education, and research activities.
• Complies with and integrates institutional and regulatory standard into clinical practice.
• Attends all transport departmental meetings and committees as requested.
• Maintains clinical competence in discipline through direct patient contact as scheduled.
• Actively collaborates with transport staff, medical staff, and other disciplines in the development, evaluation and revision of complex patient’s plan of care in the transport environment and assists in the development of department protocols and guidelines.
• Assists with the development of clinical skills labs, clinical competencies, and neo/pedi transport academies and conferences as directed.
• Functions as clinical resource for staff and support staff as appropriate in assisting them to meet their professional goals assisting all transport disciplines to attain national certification in their area of expertise.
• Functions as a liaison between Transport Director, Transport Coordinators, and DCH Preceptors to determine staff support needed for successful completion of orientation and required certifications.
• Collaborates to evaluate the effectiveness of staff education and makes recommendations for modifications.
• Collaborates with clinical quality review to evaluate and assess unanticipated patient care outcomes.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

Minimum of 5 years Transport Critical Care experience, with neonatal, pediatric, adult experience or combination required. A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in related field is preferred.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS.

• Current Texas license or compact state.
• Maintains certification in BLS, ACLS, PALS, NRP.
• National certification in field of discipline.

Until all children are well.

Driscoll Children’s Hospital and its specialty centers, urgent care centers, and after-hours facility serve a vast area covering 31 South Texas counties.

The hospital is a 191-bed tertiary care center offering 32 medical and 13 surgical specialties.

Combined with our non-profit, community-based Health Plan, Driscoll Health System is an exceptional workplace for anyone with a big heart and a drive for success.

Smiles, hugs and a soothing touch are as much a part of Driscoll’s approach to treating children as is its advanced medical treatments and technologies.

The core values at Driscoll Heath System are: Compassion, Advocacy, Respect, Excellence, and Stewardship.

These values are exemplified through every position - from treating the most critical patients hands-on, to maintaining a clean environment, to keeping the organization running from behind the scenes.

We invite you to learn about Driscoll’s rich history and explore the laidback lifestyle South Texas has to offer.