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St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport has more than 3,200 employees. It includes a 473-bed community teaching hospital, a 76-bed inpatient psychiatric facility in Westport, a large multispecialty provider group, and special needs services for adults and children. St. Vincent’s is the first hospital in Fairfield County to be integrated into the Hartford HealthCare network, and is the system’s second-largest hospital.
Job Summary:
Coordinates nursing activities and resources within clinical specialty or department.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinates staff scheduling and educational/development activities.
- Participates in and provides oversight of Spine Surgery/Neurosurgery Program
- Serves as a resource for the development, implementation, and evaluation of performance improvement initiatives
- Identifies and resolves issues affecting the delivery of patient care. Performs quality assurance studies and assists with implementation of quality assurance and/or improvement initiatives.
- Responsible for assisting management in operational activities of the department, development of nursing staff advancement of contemporary safe evidenced based nursing practice.
- Serves as resource to staff and external contacts on issues related to patient care, patient flow and clinical standards, policies and procedures.
- Assists with quality management and performance improvement related to the Spine/Neurosurgery Program
- Plans and implements programs to strengthen professional competency and meet educational needs of colleagues
- Provides necessary assistance as the neuro-spine resource nurse in organizing, preparing, circulating and scrubbing spine/spinal fusion surgical cases
- Collaborates with members of the neuro-spine team to deliver service specific knowledge and facilitate organization of surgeon’s preferences in equipment, maintenance and control of supplies, instrumentation and optimal surgical environment
- Monitors departmental compliance with regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Utilizes efficient decision making and problem solving to ensure quality service and promote patient and employee satisfaction.
- Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide both direct and indirect patient care appropriate to patients served in order to achieve desired outcomes for the patient with consideration of age and cultural differences.
- Communicates effectively with peers and interdisciplinary team to achieve desired outcome for patient.
- Adheres to all organizational policies and procedures
Qualifications
- Licensed Registered Nurse credentialed from the Connecticut Department of Public Health obtained
prior to hire date or job transfer date - Associate degree in Nursing required, BSN preferred
- Certified BLS Provider credentialed from the American Heart Association (AHA) obtained within 2 Months (60 days) of hire date or job transfer date
- Three (3) years nursing experience required
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