Quality Coordinator, RN

Under the supervision of the Chief Quality Officer (System), the Quality Coordinator plays a vital role in our healthcare delivery system. Primary areas of accountability may include:

• Creation and execution of hospital wide “Conversation Ready” Initiative
• Point person for any ACP/EOL needs on patients without Palliative Care on board
• Supportive role to all clinicians to ensure thorough ACP
• Supportive role to all clinicians to provide the highest level of care to patients nearing EOL.
• Ongoing training/involvement for designated “Conversation Champions”
• Creation of educational and interactive resources for patients and their families to assist with EOL decision making
• Identification of triggers to start palliative and hospice consultations earlier in the hospitalization
• Ongoing clinician palliative concepts education
• Conversation Ready educational classes
• Skills Day Conversation Ready education
• Development of Cerner documentation to capture ACP
• Development of note templates to capture ACP conversations ? Continued process improvement/growth of the initiative 
• Data collection on impact of the initiative 
• Assist with goals of GIP hospice initiative
• Nurse education
• Nurse GIP conversion protocol
• Hospice liaison
• Supportive role to bedside nurses to provide highest level of care to patients under to hospice care