Children's Surgery Program Manager

at  RWJBarnabas Health

Req #: 0000174766
Category: Nursing
Status: Full-Time
Shift: Day
Facility: RWJ New Brunswick
Department: Childrens Hospital Admin

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to complete all pre-training, on-site training, and post-training modules and pass the training posttest for MBS Clinical Reviewer. RHIA, RHIT, LPN/LVN, RN, or BSN preferred but not required.

Experience:

• Minimum Five (5) year experience in surgery or surgery-related department or division, preferred.
• A Computer and Internet experience required
• Database data entry and/or management experience preferred.
• Quality improvement or patient safety knowledge and experience preferred Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
• Familiarity and comfort with MS Office products is essential for success in this position, (Word and Excel- required; PowerPoint and Access- preferred.) Ability to build relationships and gain alignment for clinical support and be able to articulate questions to receive an appropriate level of support from superiors and peers.
• Ability to interact with all members of the surgical team and administrative staff in a professional and courteous manner.

SCHEDULING REQUIREMENTS

• Weekend rotation mandatory
• 40 hours per pay period

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Coordinate management across the continuum of children s surgical care, which includes planning and implementation of clinical protocols and practice management guidelines, monitoring care of in-hospital patients, and serving as a resource for clinical practice.
• Provide the intra-facility and regional professional staff development, participate in case review, implement practice guidelines, and direct community education programs
• Monitor clinical processes and outcomes and system issues related to the quality of care provided; develop quality filters, audits, and case reviews; identify trends and sentinel events; and help outline remedial actions while maintaining confidentiality.
• Manage, as appropriate, the operational, personnel, and financial aspects of the children s surgery program. Serve as a liaison to administration, and represent the children s surgery program on various hospital and community committees to enhance and foster optimal care management.
• Supervise collection, coding, and developing processes for validation and analysis of data in adherence with established deadlines. Design and oversee the data collection to facilitate performance improvement activities, trend reports, and research while protecting confidentiality.
• Stabilize the complex network of many disciplines that work in concert to provide high-quality children s surgical care. Serve as an internal resource for staff in all departments, and act as an extended liaison for other system entities.
• Be involved in research projects, analysis, and distribution of findings. Facilitate protocol design for accurate data collection, feedback and analysis, and understand the requirements of research oversight.
• Participate in the development of children s surgical care systems at the community, state, provincial, or national levels.
• Keeps knowledge and skills current through literature related to surgical patients and procedures, self-education, community networking, and professional organization offerings.
• The CSPM must play an active role in directing quality implementation and oversight of the CSV Program throughout the continuum of hospital care, including oversight of the ACS NSQIP Pediatric Program.
• The CSPM must show evidence of educational preparation and relevant clinical experience in the care of patients with surgical needs.
• The CSPM must have adequate FTE to be effective in the role. For a Level I center, the role requires a minimum of one full time equivalent (FTE) and must not be additive to the job of the OR Director or other individual with responsibilities outside of the program. In Level II or III centers, the time commitment of the CSPM, with administrative oversight, must be demonstrably adequate for the institutional patient volume.
• For children s surgical safety reports (Appendix I), a process must be developed and implemented that ensures that the data-collection is completed timely by adequately trained staff whose performance is monitored to ensure high-quality.
• The CSPM is required to attend PIPS Committee meetings.
• The CSPM must have a working relationship with the MDCS so that they function as a team.

OTHER DUTIES:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.