Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) - Stroke Program Coordinator - Full-Time Days - Lauderdale Lakes, FL

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Florida Medical Center is seeking an accomplished Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) to lead the operations, quality improvement, and accreditation readiness of our Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center. We welcome qualified neuroscience, emergency, and critical care APRNs with strong program coordination and quality leadership skills; prior Stroke Coordinator title is not required.

Position Summary

The APRN - Stroke Program Coordinator is the designated operational leader for Florida Medical Center's Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center. The role integrates multidisciplinary program management, stroke registry oversight, clinical performance improvement, staff education, and continuous Joint Commission and AHCA readiness. Direct clinical duties are performed only within the APRN's training, authorized scope, and hospital privileges; program leadership is the primary focus.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage daily operations and coordination of the Stroke Program, including program goals, documentation, and operational processes.
• Serve as an operational and clinical resource for stroke-related policies, protocols, and program requirements.
• Coordinate continuous readiness for Joint Commission Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center certification and applicable AHCA requirements.
• Lead survey preparation, mock surveys, compliance assessments, and corrective action follow-up.
• Monitor changes in stroke guidelines, certification requirements, and applicable regulations.
• Collaborate across departments to support stroke alerts, neurologic evaluation, imaging, thrombolytic assessment, thrombectomy pathways, and post-procedure care.
• Work with neurointerventional physicians and procedural teams to identify and improve treatment workflows.
• Identify delays, clinical variances, and operational barriers and facilitate multidisciplinary improvements.
• Oversee stroke registry abstraction, data validation, reporting, and submission, including Get With The Guidelines-Stroke when applicable.
• Maintain stroke performance dashboards and analyze treatment times, quality measures, clinical outcomes, and process compliance.
• Coordinate case reviews, quality improvement projects, and root cause analyses as appropriate.
• Develop and track stroke education, NIHSS competency, and training documentation with Nursing Education and department leaders.
• Coordinate Stroke Committee meetings, agendas, minutes, quality reports, and follow-up items with the Stroke Medical Director.
• Collaborate with the EMS Liaison on prehospital stroke education and care transitions.
• Provide advanced clinical consultation, assessment, and patient management consistent with licensure, practice arrangements, and granted privileges.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in Nursing with advanced practice preparation or another qualifying advanced practice nursing education pathway.
• Current, active Florida APRN license.
• Current national certification as a Nurse Practitioner in a specialty appropriate to assigned clinical duties.
• Current BLS and ACLS certifications.
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification or ability to obtain within 90 days of hire.
• Eligibility for applicable hospital medical staff credentialing and clinical privileges.
• At least three years of clinical nursing experience in neuroscience, neurology, emergency medicine, critical care, or a related acute care specialty.
• Demonstrated experience with clinical quality improvement and at least one of the following: multidisciplinary program coordination, performance measurement, staff education, clinical audits, or regulatory readiness activities.
• Working knowledge of acute stroke recognition, assessment, treatment pathways, and post-stroke care.
• Working familiarity with healthcare regulatory compliance, evidence-based stroke care guidelines, and clinical quality indicators; ability to learn and apply detailed TSC certification standards.
• Strong analytical, organizational, documentation, and interdisciplinary leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three years of Nurse Practitioner practice experience.
• Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) certification or another specialty appropriate to the clinical assignment.
• Previous Stroke Coordinator, Stroke Program Manager, Neuroscience Coordinator, or comparable clinical program leadership experience (helpful but not required).
• Experience with a Primary, Thrombectomy-Capable, or Comprehensive Stroke Center.
• Hands-on experience with Joint Commission stroke certification, mock surveys, regulatory gap assessments, or corrective action tracking.
• Experience with Get With The Guidelines-Stroke or a similar clinical registry.
• Knowledge of mechanical thrombectomy pathways and neurointerventional stroke care.
• Stroke Certified Registered Nurse (SCRN) certification.
• Experience with audits, root cause analysis, improvement methodology, performance dashboards, and committee coordination.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is an APRN with strong neuroscience or acute-care credibility who can independently coordinate stroke program operations, own documentation and registry quality, lead interdisciplinary improvement, and maintain continuous survey readiness. We value demonstrated program leadership and quality improvement skills as much as prior coordinator job titles.