INTRODUCTION

Do you have the career opportunities as a Accreditation Program Coordinator you want in your current role? We invest in what matters most to nurses like you – at home, at work, and at every stage in your career. We have an exciting opportunity for you to join St. David’s Surgical Hospital which is a part of the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.
Do you want to work where you have a voice? Nurses are at the forefront of our commitment to the care and improvement of human life. At HCA Healthcare, there are many ways for nurses to have a voice through professional practice councils, advisory councils, vital voices surveys, and units of distinction. We learn from our multi-generational nursing family. We partner with our Nurses at St. David’s Surgical Hospital!

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead regularly scheduled meetings with hospital administrators, physician champions and key staff.
• Develop standardized care plans with the surgeons including pre-op, post-op and discharge orders.
• Serves as liaison between physicians, staff, hospital administration, patients and families on the implementation and operation of the accreditation programs.
• Ensure appropriate pre-op preparation for each patient prior to surgery.
• Develop and oversee the creation of pre- and post-op teaching classes, including the coordination of teaching materials with the physicians’ office.
• Tracking and measuring surgical outcomes and patient satisfaction, identifying areas that require improvement.
• Provide key statistics at leadership team meetings and to other stakeholders as necessary. Statistics may include: outcomes, patient satisfaction, complications, hospital-wide survey results, nurse call back results, etc.
• Oversee the development and on-going editing of unit-specific forms and patient education materials including: nurse discharge checklists, patient guidebooks, wall hangings and other standardized materials.
• Responsible for updating orders, databases and other documentation related to the accreditation programs
• Develop community education
• Develops and maintains relationships with rehabilitation facilities, local EMS providers and key PCPs.
• Create and oversee an ongoing quality improvement plan.
• Responsible for attending and facilitating the joint replacement and rectal cancer program meetings
• Performs care according to standards with consideration of hospital policy procedures and mission as assigned.
• Ensures program policy and procedures are reviewed every 3 years per policy.
• Advances personal growth through participation in educational programs, current literature, in-services and workshops.
• Facilitates the learning experience of staff members.
• Facilitates communication between all disciplines.
• Maintains close relationship with Orthopedic and Cancer Registries to collaborate needs.
• Provides pre-operative and post-operative education to patients and families.
• Works with physicians and quality leaders to ensure successful accreditation surveys every 2-3 years
• Performs other duties as assigned.