STRATEGIC SERVICES ASSOCIATE - Duke Heart Center of Excellence

Duke University Hospital is consistently rated as one of the best in the United States and is known around the world for its outstanding care and groundbreaking research. Duke University Hospital has 957 inpatient beds and offers comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, including a regional emergency/trauma center; a major surgery suite containing 51 operating rooms; an endo-surgery center; an Ambulatory Surgery Center with nine operating rooms and an extensive diagnostic and interventional radiology area. In fiscal year 2018, Duke University Hospital admitted 42,916 patients and had 1,085,740 outpatient visits in fiscal year 2017.

U.S News & World Report named Duke University Hospital #1 in North Carolina and #1 in the Raleigh-Durham area in 2018-19.

Duke University Hospital is ranked in the top 20 nationally for seven adult specialties, including cardiology and heart surgery, nephrology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, pulmonology, rheumatology, and urology.

In addition to its hospitals, Duke Health has an extensive, geographically dispersed network of outpatient facilities that include primary care offices, urgent care centers, multi-specialty clinics and outpatient surgery centers.

Duke Nursing Highlights:

• Duke University Health System is designated as a Magnet® organization
• Nurses from each hospital are consistently recognized each year as North Carolina’s Great 100 Nurses.
• Duke University Health System was awarded the American Board of Nursing Specialties Award for Nursing Certification Advocacy for being strong advocates of specialty nursing certification.
• Duke University Health System has 6000 + registered nurses
• Quality of Life: Living in the Triangle!
• Relocation Assistance!

General Description 

The Clinical Process Consultant is a clinician with hands-on experience caring for Heart patients and who also has a deep interest an understanding of clinical system technology platforms like the Epic EMR.

Candidates to this role must be able to apply critical thinking and be able to articulate understand big picture scope and impact, applying structural thinking, while tracking the detail and helping staff, developers, and others in the department the implications of design or development decisions.

This role is able to translate process change needs into requirements that a developer may act on. This position understands the spectrum of care settings inpatient, interventional, outpatient. This position supports the analysis, evaluation, documentation, and implementation of changes to clinical workflows and any changes to the relevant IT systems used to support care. These changes span multiple departments, multiple workflows and systems.

This position will report to and closely support the department’s Senior Manager Heart Center Cardiovascular Informatics in understanding the big picture and help to execute the work of the department by tracking relevant details and by making sure the need, communicated via requirements, is well understood by developers, vendors, or other non-clinicians.

Duties and Responsibilities of this Level

Heart Center Clinical Processes Support, Workflows and Systems

- Support the Senior Manager in engaging the stakeholders, collecting, conveying requirements and testing development work for accuracy.

- Act as a high level expert on our systems and how they are used. Assist in implementing technology changes that can adapt quickly to changing organization, business, and clinical demands.

- Reviews clinical process, system or other changes (i.e. system upgrades) that might impact existing workflows and recommends methods to optimize to desired state and improve efficiency. Review system or process architecture in scope of assigned projects.

- Meet with stakeholders and document system changes (e.g. detailed requirements) for developers and or vendors. Interview clinical staff and confirm planned changes do not have any unintended consequences to patient care.

- Answer or resolve any questions related to clinical context or system use vendors or developers may have.

- Communicate information clearly and create an environment where people can engage in open dialogue and reach effective solutions together to optimize workflow or process.

- Participate in cross-functional teams to resolve complex issues related to automated workflows or other complex processes or lead discussions with the business and operational leaders to analyze reporting needs, configure and model data and develop reports using specialized knowledge of reporting applications and software applications.

Required Qualifications at this Level

Education: BS required. BSN strongly preferred.

Experience Strongly prefer extensive clinical experience caring for heart patients across different levels of acuity including stepdown/telemetry and critical care unit. Minimum 5 years experience. Experience with performance improvement and developing pilot projects within the context of a hospital as well as agencies that influence how we do PI/QI (Baldridge, JCAHO, Magnet). 2 years or more experience. Experience coaching staff. Good understanding of business process functions associated with patient care operations such as staffing budgets and staff training. >1.5 years. Adept with technology and patient care systems as evidenced by participation in some system roll out, or as a training or super user for an EMR system. > 2 years Experience with some form of leadership and committee participation. For example Nurse manager. > 1 year.

Degrees, Licensure, and/or

Certification: Strongly prefer RN BSN

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Strong analytical and communication skills. Organized structured thinker. Proficient with productivity tools (e.g Excel, Sharepoint). Familiar with Epic Radiant. Able to train groups of people.

Distinguishing Characteristics of this Level

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Minimum Qualifications
Education
A Bachelor's degree in a business or health-related field is required.

Experience

• A minimum of 5 years' work experience, including 3 years of experience with significant responsibility for performance/ process improvement. 
• Experience leading work teams required.
• Experience can be supplemented with a master's being equivalent to two years of experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Effective written and verbal communication skills care improvement
• Ability to communicate with customers/staff with diverse educational backgrounds
• Analysis of data and processes for opportunities for 
• Ability to manage numerous diverse projects simultaneously through effective priority setting, efficient use of time, organization 
• Knowledge of accreditation standards and regulations related to health 
• Attention to detail and accuracy 
• Computer literacy

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