RN Care Coordinator - Advanced Heart Failure Remote Patient Monitoring
Bell Hospital
Position Summary / Career Interest:
The Ambulatory Clinic RN Care Coordinator is a licensed registered professional nurse who is a clinical expert who provides ethical, evidence-based, safe and compassionate nursing care. The Ambulatory Clinic RN Care Coordinator focuses on patient safety and the quality of nursing care by identifying and clarifying patient needs, performing clinic related patient care, conducting health education, promoting patient advocacy, coordinating healthcare services, and evaluating patient outcomes. The RN Care Coordinator will provide support to their assigned physicians by communicating with the patient/family/caregiver and relaying the information to the physician. They will provide support and nursing care services during the physician's clinic sessions and ensuring the patient/family/caregiver understands the plan of care. They will verify all orders placed during the clinic session have been completed and the physician has been notified of the results.
Responsibilities:
- Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
- Acts as a liaison to the medical and nursing staff and advises on clinical performance variances
- Assists in the development in peer review processes for each program.
- Ensures that the standards of The Joint Commission or other regulatory or certification bodies are met and maintained.
- Facilitates cooperative and collaborative community and institutional relationships.
- Leads and coordinates the clinical activities of the assigned program and oversees the process.
- Markets and promotes new and existing programs and services to internal and external customers.
- Participates as a team member on the multidisciplinary teams that provide oversight to the program.
- Provides input to administration on the strategic plans and priorities for the program for resource allocation.
- Supports and assures the quality of care and effective functioning of the performance improvement program.
- Works collaboratively with integrated professional programs (medicine, nursing, EMS) to plan CEU educational programs based on program and community needs.
- Works to understand the workflows and care processes associated with the program goals.
- Works with the associated program Medical Director to ensure development and compliance with the program's order sets and documented policies and procedures.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Required:
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
- BLS Certification or obtained within 14 days of hire.
- Registered nurse - licensed in the state in which they will be working and proof of compact licensure submitted/applied for in the state in which the employee lives in
- 2 years of RN experience
- Basic typing and word processing ability
- Excellent analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- As a condition of your employment and continued employment with the health system, you are required to secure a Nurse Compact License (NCL) within 60 days of your date of hire. This will enable you to perform your job duties not only in Kansas, but other compact states. You will be responsible for any expenses you incur in securing this license, and must provide your manager with evidence of this license before the sixty-day period expires. If you fail to secure the NCL as required, you will be immediately removed from the work schedule and placed on an unpaid administrative leave, until we can understand the reasons for your non-compliance. Further failure to comply with the licensing requirement will result in your end of employment with the health system.
Preferred:
- Previous medical office experience
Time Type:
Full time
Job Requisition ID:
R-30725
We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status or genetic information.
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