Transport RN Coordinator

Driscoll Children's Hospital; Edinburg (TX); In loco; USD 85.000 - 100.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Driscoll Children's Hospital is seeking a Transport Clinical Coordinator to guide clinical best practices for the Transport Program. This role serves as a key resource to medical teams, ensuring training and certifications meet standards, and gathering quality data to trend clinical needs and improvements.

The Coordinator works with physician directors and receiving physicians to measure outcomes, collaborating with transport staff to implement evidence-based changes and to promote national

Competenze

• Minimum of 5 years Transport Critical Care experience, with neonatal, pediatric, adult experience or combination.
• A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in related field is preferred.
• Current Texas license or compact state (to meet licensing requirements).
• National certification in field of discipline.

Mansioni

• Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates ethical practice and adherence to compliance guidelines.
• Identifies essential relationships across Neonatal, Pediatric, and Adult transport.
• Evaluates clinical practice and implements evidence-based improvements.
• Participates in process improvement, transport education, and research activities.
• Collaborates with physicians and staff to develop/ revise transport programs and guidelines.
• Oversees staff training and certifications to meet standards.

Conoscenze

Transport Critical Care experience

Neonatal care

Pediatric care

Adult care

Clinical leadership

Formazione

Bachelor's degree

Descrizione del lavoro

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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 :

• 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 collaborations 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.