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McLeod Health · 2 months ago

Patient Blood Management Program Manager - Pre-Admission Testing

801 E Cheves St, Florence, SC, 29506, US

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

McLeod Health is seeking a Patient Blood Management Program Manager to lead the patient blood management initiatives across the hospital. The role focuses on optimizing blood management strategies, educating stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with clinical standards to improve patient outcomes.

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Responsibilities

Job responsibilities include those listed in competency document

Maintains a professional image and exhibits excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, physicians, and co-workers in accordance with our Service Excellence Standards and Core Values

The Patient Blood Management Program Manager serves as a clinical leader for advancing the care of the program-specific patients throughout the organization

The Patient Blood Management Manager develops, coordinates, and implements the patient blood management programs across the hospital for optimal blood management in the inpatient and outpatient setting

The role requires excellent oral and written communication skills, along with the ability to lead, collaborate, and educate a diverse group of stakeholders to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs

The role involves implementing and managing the Patient Blood Management Program, which aims to reduce the need for allogeneic blood transfusions by optimizing anemia management, educating on blood products and blood product alternatives, minimizing blood loss from procedures, and improving hemostasis

The role requires a strong understanding of patient blood management principles, including anemia management, bleeding disorders, blood conservation efforts in surgery, reduced phlebotomy-related blood loss in laboratory procedures, and transfusion alternatives

The role oversees preoperative anemia screening, iron/erythropoiesis optimization, and blood conservation strategies

Serves as an advanced consultant to patients, families, and staff in the delivery of care to patients choosing to refuse consent for blood transfusions for religious and/or personal reasons

Assures that the patients’ rights and wishes to accept or decline blood transfusions are recognized, and appropriate blood management alternatives and techniques are discussed and employed

Provides support and educational materials specific to refusal to accept blood and assists patients in completing any necessary forms

Provides education to patients, families, and healthcare professionals on all patient blood management strategies, principles, and treatments

Demonstrates teamwork and utilizes communication/influencing expertise to foster collaboration among physicians, clinicians, committees, and leadership in the adoption of the patient blood management program

Experience in leading and collaborating with physicians, clinicians, committees, and leadership to improve the use of evidence-based transfusion guidelines and strategies for reducing transfusions and to foster teamwork to achieve program and organizational goals

Collaborates with multi-disciplinary team, including physicians, nurses, lab staff, or staff from other departments to integrate patient blood management principles into daily practice

Establishes clinical standards and develops protocols, pathways, policies, and clinical practice guidelines consistent with the AABB (American Association Blood Bank), the WHO (World Health Organization), and SABM (Society for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management)

Ensures program compliance with regulatory requirements and hospital specific certifications and guidelines

Develops and coordinates the patient blood management efforts on patient safety and quality/performance improvement teams in collaboration with clinical, non-clinical, and senior leaders

Leads performance improvement initiatives, gap analysis reviews, and monitors transfusion utilization and anemia management to enhance services and improve clinical outcomes

Collaborate with clinical analysts to collect, monitor, review, analyze, and interpret program-specific data regarding clinical outcomes, to assess performance, and to identify gaps to guide improvements and education efforts

Reports on program performance, outcomes, areas for improvement, and program compliance to executive, medical, and clinical staff

Provides feedback to the multi-disciplinary team or applicable committee regarding outcomes, barriers, interdepartmental collaboration

Promotes, plans, develops, and implements growth initiatives for this role and program along with growth of the program throughout the system

Coordinates the efforts to measure and report on safe, cost-effective, evidence-based care strategies for the inpatient and outpatient population across the continuum of care

Develops and delivers educational materials and training to clinical staff on patient blood management protocols, strategies for safe and appropriate blood use, managing anemia, avoiding unnecessary transfusions, and best practices

Develops professional and public education materials on the topic of patient blood management; public and professional speaking/presentations as needed

Partner with Marketing, Communications, and Public Outreach to support patient and provider outreach to the community

Performs all other duties as assigned

Qualification

Patient Blood ManagementClinical Nursing ExperienceLeadership ExperienceCertification in Patient Blood ManagementTransfusion Safety CertificationBSN RNEducation SkillsCommunication SkillsTeamworkCollaboration