Posted:
10/17/2024, 5:00:00 PM
Location(s):
Evanston, Illinois, United States ⋅ Illinois, United States
Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level
Field(s):
Medical, Clinical & Veterinary
Position Highlights:
What you will need:
What you will do:
1. Responsible for continually reviewing the care of stroke and neuroscience patients in the acute-care setting.
2. Responds to stroke alerts occurring in the emergency department and inpatient setting and coordinates the response of other healthcare providers in stroke alerts.
3. Responds to the concerns of patients and their care partners through providing counseling and education pertaining to stroke and neurosciences programs.
4. Oversees neuroscience quality improvement processes, in collaboration with other program coordinators and neuroscience. Uses trends in neuroscience outcomes data, best practices and patient/provider feedback to guide improvements.
5. Assists in coordinating care of the Stroke/Neuroscience program patients through collaboration with physicians, coordinators, nursing, case management, social workers, therapists, radiology, lab, dieticians, pharmacy, and all other members of the healthcare team through team meetings and/or one-on-one meetings to ensure a quality care-delivery process for patients across the continuum. Works with this team to identify and track key performance measures including but not limited to patient satisfaction, discharge disposition, and stroke specific outcomes, as necessary.
6. Assists in the development and revision of standards of care, policies, clinical pathways, and order sets that pertain to the care of stroke and neuroscience patients.
7. Responsible for collecting and recording data pertaining to primary and comprehensive stroke certification standards. Routinely presents this data to a target audience and engages this audience in achieving benchmark targets.
8. Monitors ongoing documentation of care by healthcare providers for stroke and neuroscience patient populations.
9. Ensures compliance with regulatory and quality standards such as those established by IDPH, DNV-GL, the Joint Commission, and the American Heart Association.
10. Utilizes various methods to increase stroke and neurological disease awareness to staff. Coordinates with educators in the development of education programs for staff orientation, annual education and competencies.
11. Works with nursing, rehabilitation and other services to ensure comprehensive patient education and preparation is achieved and maintained, on an ongoing basis.
12. Works with interdisciplinary leadership ensure patient education materials are standardized and consistent with standard order sets and clinical pathways. Works with appropriate staff to review and approve materials as necessary.
13. Participates in staff education on an individual and/or group basis. Provides support to the stroke and neuroscience team for continual learning.
16. Works with quality and performance improvement departments to distribute reports to key stakeholders.
Benefits offered by Endeavor Health include:
Endeavor Health is a fully integrated healthcare delivery system committed to providing access to quality, vibrant, community-connected care, serving an area of more than 4.2 million residents across six northeast Illinois counties. Our more than 25,000 team members and more than 6,000 physicians aim to deliver transformative patient experiences and expert care close to home across more than 300 ambulatory locations and eight acute care hospitals – Edward (Naperville), Elmhurst, Evanston, Glenbrook (Glenview), Highland Park, Northwest Community (Arlington Heights) Skokie and Swedish (Chicago) – all recognized as Magnet hospitals for nursing excellence. For more information, visit www.endeavorhealth.org.
When you work for Endeavor Health, you will be part of an organization that encourages its employees to achieve career goals and maximize their professional potential.
Please explore our website (www.endeavorhealth.org) to better understand how Endeavor Health delivers on its mission to “help everyone in our communities be their best”.
Endeavor Health is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. Please refer to the main career page for more information.
Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the core of who we are; being there for our patients and each other with compassion, respect and empathy. We believe that our strength resides in our differences and in connecting our best to provide community-connected healthcare for all.
EOE: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets, VEVRRA Federal Contractor.
Website: https://swedishcovenant.org/
Headquarter Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Employee Count: 1001-5000
Year Founded: 1886
IPO Status: Private
Industries: Health Care ⋅ Hospital ⋅ Medical