Clinical Program Coordinator
The division of Pulmonary is seeking a Clinical Program Coordinator to be a part of a clinical program in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting and assist with collecting clinical data regarding patient treatments and evaluations; manage electronic and paper records and patient evaluations; create standard operating procedures and data collection forms; design and create basic databases; perform basic statistical analyses; prepare reports and presentations; carry out other related duties.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
- Proactively improve or optimize workflow and discuss with coordinator/supervisor as appropriate.
- Screen and assist in hiring new clinical program staff.
- Ensure clinical program staff are adequately trained, and assessed using quality assurance procedures to perform their work-related duties.
- Take initiative and anticipate and respond to staff and patient needs based on awareness of routine and repeated job functions.
- Using explicit criteria, screen and identify eligible patients and maintain a paper and electronic log of eligible and non-eligible patients; request clarification from clinical and program staff if uncertainty regarding eligibility; promptly notify clinical and project staff of eligible patients.
- Track expenses to assist Program Director with budget-related analyses.
- Communicate with clinical staff to ensure proper rehabilitation-related consults are ordered.
- Coordinate rehabilitation activities with nurses, physicians, therapists and technicians to maximize patient access to physical rehabilitation services in MICU.
- Regularly update clinical and project staff, verbally and in writing, of progress with job functions.
- Communicate effectively and cooperate with both clinical and project staff directly and indirectly involved in the project to achieve project goals.
- Coordinate and contribute to quality improvement projects and related research, which includes but is not limited to establishing electronic and manually extracted data streams and standardized reports from EPIC to monitor the progress of the project, ad hoc reports of QI data, and the creation of meeting minutes/agendas.
- Assist with literature search and finding, ordering and retrieving published research articles.
- Manage the clinical program’s educational multimedia projects by consenting, photographing and video recording patients engaged in therapy services and consenting for relevant studies.
- Create and update standard operating procedures (SOP) for rehabilitation processes in the ICU setting based on knowledge and understanding of relevant processes related to rehabilitation techniques and the unique needs of critically ill patients.
- Create new data collection forms and revise existing data collection and therapy evaluation forms and progress notes.
- Design and develop an electronic database to store data from collection forms.
- Perform data entry and management using electronic database and other software.
- Design and perform routine and ad hoc (customized) data analyses using descriptive statistics and relevant parametric and non-parametric tests.
- Design and implement standard and customized reports and presentations, prepared in both text and tabular format, for data analyses and overall project activities.
- Ensure that all stored electronic data with PHI meets Johns Hopkins Data Guidelines.
- Work with Information Technology personnel regarding the clinical program databases.
- Track and assess quality and completeness of data entry and abstraction and data streams; immediately raise potential concerns with supervisors.
- Maintain an organized system for electronic and paper-based records associated with the project.
- Organize data and perform calculations to assist with reviewing the outcomes of the project and assist with the preparation of reports and/or manuscripts.
- Prepares weekly report of work hours and activities for review by supervisor.
Minimum Qualifications
- High school diploma or graduation equivalent.
- Three years related experience.
- Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a clinical, clinical research or quality improvement environment.
Classified Title: Clinical Program Coordinator
Role/Level/Range: ATO 40/E/03/OE
Starting Salary Range: $18.20 - $33.90 HRLY ($26,499.2 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Monday to Friday 8:30am - 5pm
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Location: School of Medicine Campus
Department name: SOM DOM Pulmonary
Personnel area: School of Medicine