Surgical Clinical Reviewer-NSQIP Accred & Reg - Nationwide Children's Hospital

Overview:The Surgical Clinical Reviewer is responsible for high quality data abstraction and ongoing data collection of surgical patients. Additional activities include generating reports, analyzing data, and assisting with data for research projects.Why Nationwide Children's Hospital?:

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Responsibilities:• Successfully completes the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) credentialling.
• Participates in on-going training, conferences, and conference calls.
• Collects clinical data on variables, including preoperative risk factors, intraoperative variables and 30-day postoperative mortality and morbidity outcomes for patients’ surgical procedures in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Obtains complete 30-day follow up on all participating patients through the generation of a 30-day follow-up letter and/or phone calls to patients and periodic death searches of public records.
• Follows data acquisition and transmission protocol set out in the ACS NSQIP Operating Manual to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Validates and submits NSQIP data for assigned number of cycles prior to cycle end date and conducts data audits as needed.
• Participates in regular audits as conducted by ACS NSQIP staff to test data quality.
• Provides leadership for hospital wide performance improvement teams that may be assigned including analyzing data and preparing reports for meetings/leadership.
• Analyzes and evaluates NSQIP Semi-Annual Report (SAR) and reviews results with quality improvement (QI) Surgeon Champions, Children’s Surgical Verification Program Manager, and surgical department quality teams.
• Meets regularly with the QI Surgeon Champions and Children’s Surgical Verification Program Manager to review occurrences.Qualifications:

Education Requirement: Bachelor of Nursing with experience with surgical patients, required.

 

Licensure Requirement: State of Ohio nursing license, required.

 

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Demonstrates experience in ability to analyze and interpret data. Experience: 2 years working in medical/surgical or Perioperative setting, required.

The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individual so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under his/her supervision. EOE M/F/Disability/Vet