Gi Coordinator

Job Summary:

Are you passionate about nursing in an environment that empowers you to be the best you can be? An environment that allows you to deliver superior, patient centered care? If you answered yes, then we welcome you to join our Team as a GI Coordinator. Olathe Health nurses provide high quality compassionate care to our patients and their families every day. Our nursing team’s culture of compassion and collaboration expands beyond patient care. We encourage each nurse to keep learning and growing by consistently providing them resources to deliver better care. In this role, the GI Coordinator provides leadership in the absence of the department manager or director. Along with the manager, they assist in coordination of patient care activities on a daily basis by optimizing staffing, directing patient flow and assisting in assignments on the nursing unit assigned. The Coordinator has excellent clinical skills and maintains competence in general nursing and unit specific education and competencies. He/she provides formal and informal mentoring and assistance to staff with clinical activities and decision-making. He/she actively participates in PI activities, committees, and task forces to improve nursing practice and care. The Coordinator, in collaboration with the Education department and Unit Educator, actively participates in overseeing and/or planning unit orientation, validation, education and in-service needs. He/she works, in collaboration with the unit educator, with nursing instructors and nursing students regarding student experiences in the nursing unit/department. He/she ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning. Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice, serves as a resource, preceptor, and mentor. The Coordinator demonstrates leadership skills in decision-making and problem solving, provides professional image and is a role model for staff. He/she integrates and communicates knowledge and sensitivity to patient's psychosocial, spiritual, cultural and age specific needs. He/she practices within the boundaries of the Kansas Nurse Practice Act, specialty standards and organizational/departmental policies and procedures. He/she is responsible for meeting JCAHO and Olathe Health standards of nursing practice.

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Minimum Requirements:

• 4 Year / Bachelors Degree BSN obtained within 3 years of hire. Minimum
• 3 - 5 Years GI Lab experience Minimum
• Critical Thinking/Reasoning (Minimum proficiency)
• Active Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in accordance with the Kansas Nurse Licensure Compact Minimum Upon Hire
• Healthcare Provider CPR – (American Heart Association or American Red Cross ONLY) Minimum 7 Days
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Minimum 180 Days
• Other: Certified Gastroenterology Registered Nurse (CGRN) Preferred

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates excellent clinical skills and serves as a clinical resource for staff, physicians, patients, families and other departments in an effective and safe manner.
• Demonstrates leadership by role-modeling professional behaviors; participation in professional associations related to practice, development of policies/procedures utilizing evidenced based practice models.
• Develop and implement effective educational programs designed to assist the staff in the progression from novice to expert in the care of the patient and family, i.e., orientation, unit based in-services, and annual validation.
• Coordinates daily patient care activities to include: review of schedule, patient preparation, staffing, assignments, patient flow, communicating with surgeons and others, assuring resources are available and delays are minimal. Maintains excellent communication with pre-op and post-op staff.
• Coordinates and/or assists with coordination of product trials and evaluations. Works closely with staff to assure staff are familiar with products, charging processes are in place, and patient safety is maintained.

Our Nursing Environment Includes:

• Tuition Reimbursement so you can achieve your educational goals (up to $5,250/year)
• RN Residency program that follows the ANCC evidence-based criteria. We want you to be comfortable and confident as you transition from student to nurse to professional nurse
• PACE – Nursing Professional Achievement of Clinical Expertise (PACE) Program
• A Shared Governance Model
• Collaborative professional work environment

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