Facility: Chula Vista Medical Center

City Chula Vista

Department

Job Status

Regular

Shift

Day

FTE

1

Shift Start Time

Shift End Time

California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing; California Nurse Practitioner (NP) Certificate - CA Board of Registered Nursing; Master's Degree in Nursing; AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association

Hours :

Shift Start Time:

8 AM

Shift End Time:

4:30 PM

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

As Needed

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$73.617 - $94.990 - $116.363

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do

Plans, directs and coordinates the development and implementation of programs and services related to Neuroscience. Supports the strategic planning, business development and growth, and quality outcomes for the Neuroscience Program.

Ensures the integrity of the Joint Commission database or other identified registries are current and maintained to meet the Joint Commission and regulatory requirements. Collaborates regularly with the other entity Neuro Program Managers and/or Practitioners to ensure consistency with System endeavors. Provides/enhances patient care based on advanced nursing practice principles in area of neurosciences. Maintains regulatory requirements for neuroscience programs including stroke certification.

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Nursing

• 5 Years Neuroscience Program experience.

• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED

• California Nurse Practitioner (NP) Certificate - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED

• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 Years Services line or program management experience.

Essential Functions

• Patient Care and ConsultationFunctions as resource and clinical expert for all neuroscience patients and conducts consults for neuroscience as needed and directed by the physician. Rounds on all neuroscience patients to ensure comprehensive healthcare and core measures are addressed. To evaluate care, identify problems, assistance with discharge planning, referrals and initiate actions per standard procedure or physician orders. Rapidly evaluates patient and communicates findings to the ED physician, neurologist, neurosurgeon, interventionalists, or other attending as appropriate. Demonstrates collaboration with physicians, staff, patients, families, and all other internal and external customers to ensure patient and hospital outcomes. Coordinates with staff in setting patient centered goals to meet outcomes including communication with patient/family and all levels of personnel to coordinate and facilitate timely patient care and discharge. Assists staff with implementation of patient improvement processes. Facilitates the ethical decision-making in patient care. Implements and evaluates patient plan of care in order to anticipates patient outcomes and takes appropriate action to ensure or minimize deviations in care.Responds to ED and in-house code strokes. Initiates tele stroke when needed, administers TPA if ordered and facilitates rapid transfer to endovascular suit if indicated.

• Regulatory ComplianceImplements Disease Management Teams at the Hospital using clinical, quality and cost data to drive rapid cycle improvements in the stroke population. Guides and assists in the development of quality indicators and monitors/analyzes achievement of benchmark and best practice goals. Assures awareness of local, state, and national standards that affect programs/service line and/or departments. Collaborates with healthcare team to implement action plan to enhance quality outcomes across the continuum. Identifies and confronts issues which affect quality of service; collaborates with physicians, administration, medical groups, and staff to resolve these issues. Manages stroke registry ensuring data is submitted to meet Joint Commission, County of San Diego, and State of California requirements. Develops and maintains stroke program quality plan. Participates in hospital quality improvement efforts. Ensures program preparation for regulatory agencies. Develops data extraction quality studies and reports results of data quality and outcomes based on developed action plans to Quality Council, Leadership committee, and appropriate medical committees as needed.

• Program DevelopmentIdentifies ideas and insights into clinical improvements to generate new business or improved services for service lines.Participates/facilitates in the development of Sharp HealthCare service line continuum, ensuring the incorporation of quality outcome indicators. Maintains ongoing analysis of service line performance and monitors trends and opportunities. Initiates and recommends service and quality improvements to meet changing market needs. Collaborates with the Vice President of Ortho/Neuro Services to provide strategic planning, implementation for new services, improvement in quality, financial or customer service.Participates in activities that promote the nursing profession, specialty area and advanced practice nursingParticipates in community health event(s) to promote Services Line.

• Communication and LeadershipPromotes system focus on quality monitoring, internal and external benchmarking. Facilitates information sharing and project coordination where appropriate between facilities and other specialty service line providers. Develops collaborative relationships with stroke program staff and other stroke specialists, departments, hospitals, healthcare committees, physicians, and other agencies to facilitate and support quality services and financial viability at Sharp HealthCare. Establishes and maintains a communication system with individuals/agencies providing or supporting service line and program development. Facilitates the integration of appropriate personnel into high performing teams. Ensures positive and cooperative working relationships between departments. Provides accurate and timely information and feedback as required or requested.

• Training, Education and Staff DevelopmentEnsures that staff develops a plan of action that meets the educational needs of the staff and physicians and evaluates the organization's progress toward benchmark goals. Effectively provides ongoing constructive feedback, teaching, training, and support to all stroke service line staff, nursing staff, and managers. Provides in-services to nursing staff on outcomes of Core Measure compliance results and seeks input from staff in the development of action plan to improve their performance. Collaborates with each department to develop an education plan to increase staff compliance and engagement on all applicable metrics. Ensures that appropriate competency and orientation are provided to new staff in the program. Assists with training the staff. Identifies education needs of both staff and physicians and responds to needs. Ensures the staff appropriately assesses the completion of all charts with compliance to metrics being measured. Assesses the learning needs of patients/families in collaboration with members of the health care team. Plans, provides, and coordinates in the evaluation of patient/family education.

• Evidence-Based ResearchRemains current on evidence-based practice related to area of specialty and presents information to collaborating team members. Evaluates existing framework to ensure practice is current and evidenced based. Conducts or provides leadership in clinically based, relevant research and performance improvement activities. Makes recommendations for policy changes based on research. Promotes the use of creativity and innovative problem-solving strategies as applied to clinical issues.Serves as a consultant to individuals and groups within the profession, lay communities, and other hospitals/institutions.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrated experience in orthopedics and/or Neurosciences, and the ability to manage multiple groups, interact productively with varying levels of personnel and staff; provide program direction and development.

• Excellent communication and management skills. Ability to produce and utilize clinical, quality and financial data for project tracking and outcomes achievement.

• Flexibility to deal with and manage change. Technical knowledge of spine services.

• Advanced knowledge of computer systems, information management and data analysis. Understands and is able to articulate the principle of disease management and case management models.

• Understands the concept of experience design and supports the Planetree concept combined with the Sharp Experience as a patient-centered service model.

• Demonstrates complex problem solving and the use of critical thinking skills.

• Demonstrates teamwork, cooperation, responsiveness to others.

• Is courteous, considerate, and cooperative with patients, visitors, staff, and physicians.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class