What are the responsibilities and job description for the Children's Surgery Program Coordinator - Operating Room, Children's & Women's Hospital position at USA Health?
USA Health is Transforming Medicine along the Gulf Coast to care for the unique needs of our community.
USA Health is changing how medical care, education and research impact the health of people who live in Mobile and the surrounding area. Our team of doctors, advanced care providers, nurses, therapists and researchers provide the region's most advanced medicine at multiple facilities, campuses, clinics and classrooms. We offer patients convenient access to innovative treatments and advancements that improve the health and overall wellbeing of our community.
Responsibilities
Clinical activities: Coordinate management across the continuum of children's surgical care, which includes planning and implementation of clinical protocols and practice management guidelines, monitoring care of in-hospital patients, and serving as a resource for clinical practice.
Education responsibilities: Provide professional staff development, participate in case review, implement practice guidelines, and direct community education programs.
Performance improvement: Monitor clinical processes and outcomes and system issues related to the quality of care provided; develop quality filters, audits, and case reviews; identify trends and sentinel events; help outline remedial actions while maintaining confidentiality.
Administration: Serve as a liason to administration, and represent the children's surgical program on various hospital and community committees to enhance and foster optimal care management.
Supervison of data collection: Supervise collection, coding, and developing processes for validation and analysis of data. Design and oversee the data collection to facilitate performance improvement activities, trend reports, and research while protecting confidentiality.
Consulting and liaison: Establishes effective networks with colleagues throughout Children's & Women's Hospital and referral region. Stabilize the complex network of many discplines that work in concert to provide high-quality children's surgicaql care. Serve as an internal resource for staff in all departments and act as an extended liaison for other system entities.
Reserach: Be involved in research projects, analysis, and distribution of findings. Facilitate protocol design for accurate data collection, feedback, and analysis, and understand the requirements of reserach oversight.
Supervise and coordinate personnel activities. This will include, but is not limited to, staff selection, hiring, orientation, performance management, merit recommendations, staff time off schedules, education, credentialing, and continued professional development.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in nursing from an accredited institution as approved and accepted by the University of South Alabama, five years acute care nursing experience, and current licensure with state of Alabama as a registered nurse. Formal project management and performance improvement training, such as lean six-sigma required. Master’s degree, advanced data management skills and certification in healthcare quality (CPHQ), is preferred.
Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
USA Health is an EO/AA employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other applicable legally-protected basis.
