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WVU Medicine Golisano Children's

Manager, Stroke and Spine Programs

WVU Medicine Golisano Children's, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States, 26501

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As an expert clinician, this position is responsible for the coordination of all services/systems to ensure an organized, multidisciplinary approach to the delivery of care to program patients.

Minimum Qualifications Education, Certification, and/or Licensure Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. Current Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which services will be provided or current multi‑state Registered Nurse license through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).

Experience Five (5) years of nursing experience.

Preferred Qualifications Masters of Science in Nursing. Stroke Certified Registered Nurse through American Board of Neuroscience Nursing (ABNN).

CORE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Assures the delivery of comprehensive care for stroke and spine programs through the coordination and provision of expert direct and/or indirect patient care.

Effectively assesses stroke and spine system issues facilitating problem resolution and intervening at an appropriate level.

In collaboration with the institute leadership, develop, implement, and evaluate policies, procedures, protocols/practice, and management guidelines for the stroke and spine programs.

Serves as a role model and resource in the provision of expert direct and/or indirect nursing care by developing a comprehensive plan of care and evaluating interventions and outcomes.

Initiate multidisciplinary patient care conferences in collaboration with other team members.

Supervise collection, coding, scoring, and development of processes for validation of data.

Provide and/or coordinate stroke and spine education to nursing and hospital staff, other disciplines, students, community and patients/families/significant others utilizing teaching/learning strategies as appropriate.

Assess needs, plan, implement and evaluate stroke and spine orientation and educational programs for nursing staff in collaboration with educators and directors.

Teach and serve as a resource for in‑services, continuing education and classes for non‑nursing hospital staff and other disciplines. Also facilitate annual or biennial stroke and spine conferences.

Develop, implement and evaluate stroke prevention programs in the community.

In collaboration with the medical directors develop, implement and evaluate continuing medical education outreach programs.

Assure the effective delivery of telestroke and teleneurology services.

Evaluate the quality of stroke and spine care through a multidisciplinary Performance Improvement Program.

Provide clinical supervision to assigned staff.

Develop quality filters, audits and case reviews, identifying trends and sentinel events, and helping to outline remedial actions while maintaining confidentiality.

Manage, as appropriate, the operational, personnel, and financial aspects of the stroke and spine program.

Monitor federal and state legislative issues.

Provide clinical assistance in marketing efforts.

Represent the stroke and spine program on various hospital and community committees to enhance and foster optimal care management.

Serve as a clinical leader in nursing practice within nursing services, the hospital and across health care settings.

Provide nursing expertise through participation on multidisciplinary committees.

Provide nursing expertise and liaison with the pre‑hospital care providers.

Integrate research into clinical practice setting.

Disseminate and assist in critique and interpretation of nursing research findings to facilitate utilization by nursing staff.

Identify researchable questions in nursing practice and consult with the program evaluation and other resources in pursuing development of a research project.

Collaborate with other health care disciplines in the conduct of research.

Develop operational and capital budgets for areas of responsibility in conjunction with hospital administration. Plan budgetary needs for each area and oversee the revenue and expenses throughout the year.

Select, hire, manage and evaluate the performance and effectiveness of employees and facilitate the professional development of all staff to ensure clinical practice competence.

Make recommendations for preparation in planning and implementing change, maintaining and improving high quality patient care, and maintaining each assigned area as state‑of‑the‑art as needed.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT

Working closely with others.

Working protracted or irregular hours.

Working around biohazards.

Working around infectious diseases.

Additional Job Description Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Exempt/Non‑Exempt:

Shift: United States of America (Exempt)

Company: WVUH West Virginia University Hospitals

Cost Center: 208 WVUH Neuro Stroke Program

Address: 1 Medical Center Drive, Morgantown, West Virginia

Equal Opportunity Employer

West Virginia University Health System and its subsidiaries (collectively "WVUHS") is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. WVUHS strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. All WVUHS employees, other workers, and representatives are prohibited from engaging in unlawful discrimination. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.

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