Sepsis Coordinator – Memorial Administration – Memorial Hospital

• The Sepsis Program Coordinator provides day-to-day operational leadership for the Severe Sepsis / Septic Shock Program. This role owns the sepsis dashboard, watch list, routine reporting, standardized case review, education planning, and operational follow-through across the health system. The coordinator serves as the accountable daily link between bedside teams and executive leadership, ensuring that sepsis performance is actively monitored, barriers are escalated, evidence-based standards are reinforced, and improvement work is sustained across hospitals, units, and shifts. Responsibilities
• Own the sepsis program dashboard and watch list, including timely updates, follow-up of active cases, and identification of emerging performance concerns.
• Track and analyze performance related to SEP-1 compliance, lactate timing and repeat lactate completion, blood cultures, time-to-antibiotics, fluid administration, reassessments, mortality, readmissions, ICU transfer, post-operative sepsis, and length of stay.
• Perform structured fall-out reviews and trend delays, misses, and documentation gaps by campus, unit, shift, and provider group.
• Partner with coding, abstraction, clinical documentation improvement, and physician query processes to hardwire learning into the medical record and improve documentation reliability.
• Develop, maintain, and support sepsis-related standards, workflows, educational materials, audit tools, and escalation pathways.
• Identify barriers to reliable care delivery and escalate operational issues to Sepsis manager that impact timely recognition, treatment, reassessment, handoff quality, or documentation.
• Support implementation and sustainment of protocols, order sets, watch-list processes, and standard work aligned with enterprise sepsis goals. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Patient Group Knowledge (Only applies to positions with direct patient contact) The employee must possess/obtain (by the end of the orientation period) and demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide developmentally appropriate assessment, treatment or care as defined by the department’s identified patient ages. Specifically the employee must be able to demonstrate competency in: 1) ability to obtain and interpret information in terms of patient needs; 2) knowledge of growth and development; and 3) understanding of the range of treatment needed by the patients. Competency Statement Must demonstrate competency through an initial orientation and ongoing competency validation to independently perform tasks and additional duties as specified in the job description and the unit/department specific competency checklist. Common Duties and Responsibilities (Essential duties common to all positions) 1. Maintain and document all applicable required education. 2. Demonstrate positive customer service and co-worker relations. 3. Comply with the company's attendance policy. 4. Participate in the continuous, quality improvement activities of the department and institution. 5. Perform work in a cost effective manner. 6. Perform work in accordance with all departmental pay practices and scheduling policies, including but not limited to, overtime, various shift work, and on-call situations. 7. Perform work in alignment with the overall mission and strategic plan of the organization. 8. Follow organizational and departmental policies and procedures, as applicable. 9. Perform related duties as assigned. Education
• Bachelor's Degree (Required)
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing required
• Minimum of 3-5 years of recent acute care nursing experience required; emergency, critical care, hospital medicine, quality, care coordination, or performance improvement experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with data analysis, audit/fall-out review, quality improvement, and multidisciplinary project facilitation preferred.
• Knowledge of evidence-based sepsis care, hospital quality metrics, and regulatory/abstraction expectations related to severe sepsis and septic shock required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present data, coach teams, and influence practice across professional groups.
• Ability to organize competing priorities, maintain documentation accuracy, and follow issues through to resolution in a complex health system environment. Licensure / Certification
• Current unrestricted RN license in the applicable state required.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS and ACLS) certification required.
• Advanced certification such as CEN, CCRN, PCCN, CMSRN, CPHQ, or equivalent preferred.
• Additional education or training in sepsis, quality improvement, informatics, or patient safety preferred. Credentials
• Registered Nurse (Required)
• Basic Life Support (Required)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (Required)
• Certified Emergency NurseAdvanced certification such as CEN, CCRN, PCCN, CMSRN, CPHQ, or equivalent preferred. Work

Days Status: Full Time Regular 1.0 Location: Memorial Hospital Location of Job: US:WV:Charleston Talent Acquisition Specialist: Lauren R. Lane lauren.lane@vandaliahealth.org