Rn Coordinator, Patient Care Services - Asplundh

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY: A registered nurse with responsibility to assist the Nurse Manager and nursing staff in ensuring compassionate, safe, quality care for patients and families, and managing and influencing clinical nursing practice, the interdisciplinary team and the environment in which care is provided. Acts as a resource, role model and clinical leader for the Patient Care team.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Practices within the established policies and procedures of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Serves as a clinical resource regarding policy and procedures, patient standards, performance improvement and risk management issues.
• Expresses self orally in individual or group situations in a manner that delivers the message to nursing staff and other health professionals in an accurate and appropriate manner.
• Maintains open communication to health care providers and other supportive departments in order that quality Patient Care will be delivered.
• Approaches Patient Care team interactions with fairness, consistency and objectivity and supportive of a culture that enhances nursing performance, job satisfaction and Patient Care team retention
• Assesses patient needs and makes care recommendations based on the patient’s physical, psychosocial and cultural needs, age and functional status.
• Monitors staff schedules to ensure adequate staffing to meet Patient Care needs and maintain quality Patient Care. May authorize overtime or scheduling changes to fill shifts as necessary. Completes payroll in collaboration with Nurse Manager.
• Supports a multidisciplinary model of care delivery via communication in collaboration with other health care professionals; including facilitation of bedside and/or plan of care rounds.
• Follows up appropriately and effectively resolves customer and physician issues and complaints.

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the core values of the Hospital.

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors in Nursing degree required.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, AND REGISTRATION:

• Current licensure in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, within the guidelines of State Board of Nurse Examiners.

• Certification in Basic Cardiac Life Support and Advanced Cardiac Life Support if assigned area is critical care. Certification in specialties is encouraged.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Three (3) years of nursing experience is required, demonstrated excellence in communication skills and demonstrated successful coordinate/management of program or project.

Covid Vaccination is a requirement for employment at Jefferson for employees working at Jefferson’s clinical entities or at the University. If you are not currently vaccinated you will be required to receive the vaccination prior to hire date if you are offered employment, unless you request and receive an approved medical or religious exemption from Jefferson.

Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnet®-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

Jefferson’s mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.

• OUR MISSION: We improve lives.
• OUR VISION: Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value
• OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold & Think Differently and Do the Right Thing

As an employer, Jefferson maintains a commitment to provide equal access to employment. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, disabled individuals, and veterans.