Transport Registered Nurse Coordinator

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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:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; employees will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and/or hospital administration as required.

· 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 collaborates 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.