RN Stroke Coordinator

The Stroke Certification Coordinator assures that patients presenting to AdventHealth Gordon or AdventHealth Murray with risks/symptoms of stroke receive optimal care, using established standards and organizational goals. The function of the Coordinator is to maintain a high degree of personal effectiveness and staff effectiveness in the prompt recognition and care of stroke emergencies to include blood pressure management, administration of thrombolytic agents, and research. In doing so, plans, organizes, and implements continuity of stroke care to include involvement in continuous process improvement; patient, public, and professional education; protocol development and maintains positive relations among affiliated hospitals, physicians, and external agencies to ensure appropriate design and promotion of programs. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide patient care that is appropriate to the ages of the patients served. Responsible for standardizing stroke care throughout the facilities. It is the coordinator’s responsibility to oversee the programming, the community outreach, the daily operations of the program and the integration of telemedicine with clinical programs. The Coordinator must demonstrate an ability to organize, prioritize, meet deadlines and work with members of teams within the telemedicine department, hospital departments, medical staff and regional hospitals. The Coordinator must have ability to coordinate with team members for project development. This individual must have the ability to manage dynamic situations and possess above average communication skills to assure patient care is maximized.

Essential Functions

Essential Function

The Stroke Certification Coordinator in collaboration with the Medical Director is responsible for developing a stroke plan and monitoring the effectiveness of stroke care at AdventHealth Gordon and AdventHealth Murray. The stroke plans should include pre-hospital through discharge and should address secondary prevention issues.

Leads the Stroke Committee in collaboration with the Medical Director.

Responsible for preparation for Joint Commission certification, including the application.

The Coordinator will be responsible for collecting, analyzing, trending, and reporting required statistics to maintain status of a stroke designation.

Serves as the primary abstractor for the Get with The Guidelines Stroke Registry.

The Coordinator will serve as a patient and community advocate by providing public education concerning stroke prevention and care.

Responsible for maintaining cooperative working relationships with individuals representing the other hospitals and medical centers to coordinate educational programs, patient transfers, provide referrals, and ensure provision of quality care and services.

Main contact person for all for clinical expertise, education, updating and revising protocols of cerebral vascular patients.

Contact person for family members during hospitalization as needed.

Tracks and routes complaints, issues, etc. through appropriate process and persons.

Development and implementation of cerebral vascular related policies and procedures, including tPA administration and patient education packets.

Evaluates patient care team’s compliance with department standards and evaluated team performance against established performance standards/ expectations.

Assesses learning needs and provide learning opportunities relevant to identified gaps.

Attends internal and external educational meetings and reads professional resources in order to maintain and enhance nursing skills and clinical competencies. Keep current with new trends in stroke care.

Provides support and clinical expertise to care team, including case managers, regarding stroke care of patients who do not achieve expected outcomes.

Monitors trends and ensures patient outcomes are achieved/maintained based on established levels of quality. Collaborates with other healthcare professionals to plan LOS, discharge and follow-up.

Supports and is involved in continuous quality improvement efforts designed to increase patient outcomes, increase patient satisfaction, and improved the utilization of the human, capital, and physical resources.

Coordinator develops, interprets, evaluates and assists in the implementation of protocols, standards and guidelines that facilitate appropriate and timely quality telehealth services.

Coordinator participates on other committees as required to develop plans or further promote the program.