What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Coordinator, RN position at Pine Ridge Physicians Regional Health System?
Under the supervision of the Chief Quality Officer (System), the Quality Coordinator plays a vital role in our healthcare delivery system. Primary areas of accountability may include:
- Creation and execution of hospital wide “Conversation Ready” Initiative
- Point person for any ACP/EOL needs on patients without Palliative Care on board
- Supportive role to all clinicians to ensure thorough ACP
- Supportive role to all clinicians to provide the highest level of care to patients nearing EOL.
- Ongoing training/involvement for designated “Conversation Champions”
- Creation of educational and interactive resources for patients and their families to assist with EOL decision making
- Identification of triggers to start palliative and hospice consultations earlier in the hospitalization
- Ongoing clinician palliative concepts education
- Conversation Ready educational classes
- Skills Day Conversation Ready education
- Development of Cerner documentation to capture ACP
- Development of note templates to capture ACP conversations ● Continued process improvement/growth of the initiative
- Data collection on impact of the initiative
- Assist with goals of GIP hospice initiative
- Nurse education
- Nurse GIP conversion protocol
- Hospice liaison
- Supportive role to bedside nurses to provide highest level of care to patients under to hospice care
