Total Joint Replacement Coordinator and PAT RN New

SurgCenter of Greater Jacksonville was established by clinical personnel to provide first-class surgical services for the local community in a safe comfortable and welcoming environment.

SurgCenter of Greater Jacksonville is seeking a motivated Total Joint Replacement Coordinator to join our team.

The Joint Program Coordinator is responsible for overseeing the Joint Program.These duties will include but are not limited to:

• Care coordination of the Total Joint program.
• Oversight of ongoing Joint Commission compliance and Joint Program development.
• Work closely with the physician champion of the program to lead the initiatives of the program.
• Work with all surgeons towards standardization of care and evidence based practice.
• Creates an environment which enables surgeons and department leaders to work collaboratively
• With the assistance of the joint committee and the physician champion, develop and maintain the program’s clinical practice guidelines, clinical pathways, protocol and order sets for the Joint Program.
• Works with department leaders to enforce clinical practice guidelines
• Responsible for committee meetings with department leaders and Physicians to ensure all are kept informed and all are maintaining best practice and standardized care for our patients
• Collect and analyze program outcome measures and presents the results to the joint committee and hospital.
• Uploads monthly Performance Measures data to Joint Commission
• Responsible for overall standard of care of the joint patient.
• Coordination of the education program for patients who are planning on having joint surgery at the facility.
• Responsible for assisting department leaders with staff education/competency with our Center of Excellences
  
  

Required Skills:

• RN degree, license, and BLS required
• At minimum two (2) years experience working with orthopedic / total joint replacement patients in a hospital setting.
• Ability to work independently with strong decision making skills.
• Good organizational habits with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple projects.
• Leadership and excellent communication skills with patients, staff and physicians required.
• Ability to adapt to change quickly, strong knowledge base relative to total joint replacements and management of a joint replacement patient.
• Excellent teaching skills.
• Basic knowledge of Quality Improvement ideology.