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Northside Hospital · 2 months ago

Clinical Development Specialist, Acute Cardiac Unit

US-GA-Lawrenceville

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

1+ years exp

Northside Hospital is an award-winning healthcare provider in Atlanta, continually expanding its quality of care. The Clinical Development Specialist will coordinate the development and implementation of education and training programs for clinical staff, ensuring high standards of patient care and staff competency.

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Responsibilities

Coordinates development and implementation of staff development, orientation, in-service, and other education/training programs. Coordinates unit/department new hire orientation

Serves as resource for clinical practice, quality initiatives, and regulatory requirements relating to education, competencies, and orientation, including conducting research and otherwise maintaining knowledge of current requirements. Assists staff with interpretation as necessary

Works with department leadership to assure documentation of staff education and competency. Determines competency needs, and continually evaluates staff in order to provide feedback on staff performance to unit leadership

Participates in oversight and ongoing education programs related to regulatory standards, evidence-based practice, clinical guidelines, policies and procedures, and quality initiatives. Reports variances in compliance to appropriate leadership and facilitates, tracks, and trends improvement of standard processes. Relates quality improvement and practice guideline management to annual review and competency requirements. Assists with development of supportive patient care documentation tools

Maintains educational resources for staff to include a resource library and audiovisual aids

Serves as a resource person for various hospital departments regarding procedure related evidence-based practice, regulatory requirements, and quality initiatives

Identifies opportunities to enhance clinical care, compliance with quality and regulatory initiatives, and patient safety, and assists in implementing new processes for improvement. Assists with departmental continuous readiness for all regulatory standards

Participates in root cause analysis processes. Assists in identification of practice patterns and trends, investigation of problems and policy variances, and assists in facilitating team implementation of corrective actions to be taken

Participates in hospital-wide committees, task forces, quality improvement teams, clinical pathway teams, and other group activities as assigned

Provides educational instruction to staff members on the collection of data. Facilitates coordination of unit-based quality data collection. Participates in quality indicator and patient outcome data analysis as appropriate

Qualification

Registered Nurse (RN)Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS)BSN degreeClinical specialty certificationsQuality improvementPatient safetyEvidence-based practiceLeadership