Wellstar Health System · 4 hours ago
Clinical Quality Assurance Coordinator (Sepsis Coordinator) WMCG
Wellstar MCG Health
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
2+ years expWellstar Health System is dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of every person they serve. The Sepsis Coordinator is a registered professional nurse responsible for leading the sepsis program, focusing on performance improvement initiatives, clinical expertise, and collaboration with healthcare teams to optimize patient care outcomes.
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Responsibilities
Promotes and actively participates in performance improvement initiatives designed to enhance quality patient care and improve work processes and efficiencies for sepsis
Partners with physicians, managers and staff to ensure maximum quality and value of sepsis clinical care through individual accountability, identification, and implementation of process improvement efforts
Empowers shared decision by fostering teamwork, open communication, and inclusion of diverse thought
Researches and presents ideas on improvements in the areas of sepsis care, reporting and clinical services
Uses problem solving and communication skills to bring forth performance improvement ideas and opportunities
Uses established Performance Improvement criteria when addressing issues or recommending changes in practice, policies and procedures
Serves as the Subject Matter Expert and facilitator for the Sepsis Performance Improvement Committee
Completes daily review of all sepsis cases and sepsis deaths
Reviews all sepsis, HAI and relevant Patient Safety Indicators for opportunities for improvement
Reviews the daily event reporting summary to identify medical care concerns related to sepsis
Assists in the completion of time lines for precursor, serious safety, and sentinel events related to sepsis
Completes chart reviews for regulatory and accreditation audits as directed
Provides clinical expertise to nursing staff as well as patients and their families
Coordinates sepsis care for various patient populations, including geriatric or pediatric patients, and ensure that protocols are age-appropriate
Develops clinical tools like standing orders, bundles, nurse-driven interventions, clinical decision support apps, etc. to ensure continuity and quality of care
Evaluates the feasibility of sepsis early warning and response systems
Creates nursing documentation standards and ensure compatibility with the existing EMR
Engages leaders in decision-making and partners with others to promote patient centered care and service excellence while effectively providing leadership and management skills; possesses strong and effective negotiation and mediation skills
Serves to support the nurse managers to promote the effective running of the care delivery system and ensures that the clinical processes of care are working as intended
Serves as a resource for all physicians and leaders, and accepts additional leadership responsibilities
Uses lean and other quality skills to reduce waste and improve performance of operations and clinical systems of care; integrates marketing and communication strategies to advance service lines and the organization as a whole
Effectively communicates to diverse audiences on nursing, health care and organizational issues and this includes the ability to set standards and holds leaders and staff accountable for performance standards related to sepsis care
Proactively establishes a healthy workplace by reducing unnecessary conflict - resolves it when necessary promotes and achieves positive team dynamics
Establishes partnerships by employing strong relationship building skills with all hospital leaders and medical staff by striving to understand others (and situations) and keeping the long view in mind is fair and just using reflective practice skills to monitor self and leader performance/interaction skills exercising coaching and guiding skills
Creates opportunities for self and leaders to grow
Effectively identifies areas of improvement of leaders and clinical systems and sponsors projects to improve the same. Includes assuring nursing division meets or exceeds licensure, regulatory and accreditation standards
Applies the effective use of data and evidence to support decision making for clinical and operational responsibilities and demonstrates awareness of legal and ethical issues related to patient and staff data, information and confidentiality
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct
Qualification
Required
Bachelors Nursing
BLS - Basic Life Support or ARC-BLS - Amer Red Cross Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor
RN - Reg Nurse (Single State) or RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact
Minimum 2 years of clinical experience in nursing and/or clinical quality in a hospital or health system Required
Preferred
Masters Health Administration
Masters Public Health
Masters Nursing
Training as a Clinical Nurse Specialist
Company
Wellstar Health System
The largest health system in Georgia.
10001+ employees
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Candice L. Saunders
President and CEO
Alan Muster
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