Patient Blood Management Program Manager - Pre-Admission Testing chez McLeod Health

1. Job responsibilities include those listed in competency document.

2. Maintains a professional image and exhibits excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, physicians, and co-

workers in accordance with our Service Excellence Standards and Core Values.

3. The Patient Blood Management Program Manager serves as a clinical leader for advancing the care of the program-

specific patients throughout the organization.

4. The Patient Blood Management Manager develops, coordinates, and implements the patient blood management

programs across the hospital for optimal blood management in the inpatient and outpatient setting.

5. The role requires excellent oral and written communication skills, along with the ability to lead, collaborate, and

educate a diverse group of stakeholders to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.

6. The role involves implementing and managing the Patient Blood Management Program, which aims to reduce the need

for allogeneic blood transfusions by optimizing anemia management, educating on blood products and blood product

alternatives, minimizing blood loss from procedures, and improving hemostasis.

7. The role requires a strong understanding of patient blood management principles, including anemia management,

bleeding disorders, blood conservation efforts in surgery, reduced phlebotomy-related blood loss in laboratory

procedures, and transfusion alternatives.

8. The role oversees preoperative anemia screening, iron/erythropoiesis optimization, and blood conservation strategies.

9. Serves as an advanced consultant to patients, families, and staff in the delivery of care to patients choosing to refuse

consent for blood transfusions for religious and/or personal reasons.

10. Assures that the patients’ rights and wishes to accept or decline blood transfusions are recognized, and appropriate

blood management alternatives and techniques are discussed and employed.

11. Provides support and educational materials specific to refusal to accept blood and assists patients in completing any

necessary forms.

12. Provides education to patients, families, and healthcare professionals on all patient blood management strategies,

principles, and treatments.

13. Demonstrates teamwork and utilizes communication/influencing expertise to foster collaboration among physicians,

clinicians, committees, and leadership in the adoption of the patient blood management program.

14. Experience in leading and collaborating with physicians, clinicians, committees, and leadership to improve the use of

evidence-based transfusion guidelines and strategies for reducing transfusions and to foster teamwork to achieve

program and organizational goals.

15. Collaborates with multi-disciplinary team, including physicians, nurses, lab staff, or staff from other departments to

integrate patient blood management principles into daily practice.

16. Establishes clinical standards and develops protocols, pathways, policies, and clinical practice guidelines consistent

with the AABB (American Association Blood Bank), the WHO (World Health Organization), and SABM (Society for

the Advancement of Patient Blood Management).

17. Ensures program compliance with regulatory requirements and hospital specific certifications and guidelines.

18. Develops and coordinates the patient blood management efforts on patient safety and quality/performance improvement

teams in collaboration with clinical, non-clinical, and senior leaders.

 19. Leads performance improvement initiatives, gap analysis reviews, and monitors transfusion utilization and anemia management to enhance services and improve clinical outcomes. 

20. Collaborate with clinical analysts to collect, monitor, review, analyze, and interpret program-specific data regarding clinical outcomes, to assess performance, and to identify gaps to guide improvements and education efforts. 

21. Reports on program performance, outcomes, areas for improvement, and program compliance to executive, medical, and clinical staff. 

22. Provides feedback to the multi-disciplinary team or applicable committee regarding outcomes, barriers, interdepartmental collaboration, 

23. Promotes, plans, develops, and implements growth initiatives for this role and program along with growth of the program throughout the system. 

24. Coordinates the efforts to measure and report on safe, cost-effective, evidence-based care strategies for the inpatient and outpatient population across the continuum of care. 

25. Develops and delivers educational materials and training to clinical staff on patient blood management protocols, strategies for safe and appropriate blood use, managing anemia, avoiding unnecessary transfusions, and best practices.

 26. Develops professional and public education materials on the topic of patient blood management; public and professional speaking/presentations as needed. 

27. Partner with Marketing, Communications, and Public Outreach to support patient and provider outreach to the community. 

28. Performs all other duties as assigned.

                                                                                                                             Job Requirements

Qualifications /Training:

· Minimum 5 yrs of clinical nursing experience, preferably in Surgical Services, hematology/oncology, quality

improvement, or program management

· Leadership experience preferred

· Experience in Patient Blood Management preferred

Licenses/Certifications/Registrations/Education:

· Graduate of an Accredited Nursing Program

· Current RN license in the state of South Carolina (or compact state)

· BSN RN preferred or enrolled in a BSN program within 1 year of hire

· Certification in Patient Blood Management preferred or obtained within 2 years

· Transfusion Safety or Quality preferred or obtained within 2 years

· BLS

Physical Requirements: Refer to Occupational Risk Assessment