Hybrid Clinic Rn Patient Care Coordinator - General Gi Medicine

Department Overview

The OHSU Digestive Health Center (DHC) is a multi-disciplinary center offering services in the ambulatory setting for specialty surgical services, gastroenterology, hepatology, bariatrics and nutrition. A key program within the DHC is the General GI medicine sub-specialty.

Function/Duties of Position

This is a variable work from home / clinic hybrid position.  Minimum of 2-3 days per week are required on-site. Work from home option is available for alternate days.

 

The General GICare Coordinator is a member of a multi-disciplinary team with primary responsibility for direct and indirect professional nursing care of medicine patients that have complex gastrointestinal diseases.  The patients managed by this team are medically complex with functional GI disorders and nutritional deficiencies requiring supplemental nutrition, including total parental nutrition. Other complex and chronic GI diseases, requiring long term, longitudinal care from their gastroenterologist comprise much of this patient population.

 

• Responsibilities include the care coordination and case management of individuals in the outpatient clinic
• S/he will provide clinical support services to faculty and APP in the Gastroenterology Division
• The nurse Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating comprehensive care for patients and will be a key contributor to ensuring that patients are guided through all stages of their treatment at OHSU. This patient population can be labor intensive given their complex diagnoses and multi-disciplinary care. This translates to increasingly complex care coordination
• The nurse coordinator will be the core of a multi-disciplinary Patient Care team, which includes physicians, APP, RN, MA, and PAS-R support
• The nurse coordinator will have specialized knowledge and skills in complex gastroentestinal disease management
• This position serves as a coordinator for patients undergoing sequenced multidisciplinary treatment, and at times patients who travel from long distances from home
• Responsibilities include but not limited to care coordination, patient assessment, triage, patient education, medication management, discharge and admit planning, and clinical support for the GI clinic faculty providers
• This position will also participation in quality improvement, medical record review and  will follow existing protocols determining appropriate patient scheduling

 

Required Qualifications

• Current, unencumbered Oregon RN license
• Washington license within 6 months of hire
• Current BLS, required at time of hire
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) for external hires; BSN preferred for internal hires
• Must be able to work independently
• Will involve long periods of sitting throughout the day
• The work environment carries risk of exposure to human tissue/fluids
• Ability to use the senses of seeing (including color vision ability), hearing, touch, and smell to make correct judgments regarding patient conditions and safely administer care
• Significant use of computers, electronic health record, copiers, multi-line phones, and fax
• Able to participate in clinic, including patient interaction and teaching

Department Specific Requirements {competencies, equipment, certifications, etc.):

 

At least 1-2 years of inpatient nursing experience with a complex medical focus, or in an outpatient ambulatory based setting working with medically complex patients focused on care coordination.

Preferred Qualifications

• EPIC, Ambulatory
• Experience in the field of GI medicine

 

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