Clinical Management Coordinator Emergency Room Women & Children's Hospital

Clinical Management Coordinator – Emergency Room – Women & Children’s Hospital

Location:

Charleston, WV

Coordinate and participate in the planning, organizing, supervising, implementing and evaluating of patient services in order to provide safe, efficient and therapeutic care within hospital policies and national standards. Coordinate work with manager/director, medical staff, professional nursing staff, other departments, and community agencies. Demonstrate proficient and advanced clinical skills in planning and delivering care that has a long‑range implication for a select population.

• Assist the manager/director on a daily basis with the administration and enforcement of hospital policies as they affect department personnel. Interview, select, recommend, promote, counsel, and discipline personnel within area of responsibility.
• Assume authority and responsibility for decision making and problem solving for the unit(s) in the absence of the manager/director.
• Assume thirty‑two (24) hour responsibility for assigned areas as designated by the manager/director.
• Act as a resource with personnel in developing and maintaining skills.
• Supervise and evaluate the performance of personnel. Contribute to performance evaluations of other personnel as requested.
• Collaborate with the medical staff to maintain quality patient care through evaluation of continuous monitors and other effective measures of quality improvement monitoring.
• Patient Care:
  Assist the manager/director with patient care management, provide consistent input on the quality of nursing care, assure regulatory agency requirements are met, participate in various hospital/unit committees, maintain ongoing communication with unit staff and physicians, coordinate nursing care with professional nursing, medical staff, and other hospital departments, and facilitate the effective and efficient transition of patients throughout the system.
• Personnel Management:
  Verify the competency of specific clinical skills on the unit(s). Collaborate with professional nursing to coordinate unit orientation programs for new staff members and those with special needs. Identify educational needs of unit staff and provide continuing education, such as in‑service education on new policies, clinical skill procedures and equipment. Facilitate professional growth in staff members by providing a resource for challenging the clinical ladder.
  
  Prepare various reports, maintain in‑service/education records, prepare meeting minutes, and collaborate with other clinical management coordinators to arrange education opportunities and to facilitate problem solving. Interpret, administer and enforce hospital and departmental policies as they affect nursing unit personnel.
• Fiscal Resource Management:
  Assist manager/director in fiscal resource management for the department(s). Assist with payroll functions, update payroll records with staff schedule changes, maintain pay and benefits records. Provide input on budget needs for department supplies/equipment and educate staff on pay policies and practices.

Patient Group Knowledge (Only applies to positions with direct patient contact). The employee must possess, by the end of the orientation period, and demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide developmentally appropriate assessment, treatment or care as defined by the department’s identified patient ages. Specifically, the employee must be able to demonstrate competency in:
1) obtaining and interpreting information in terms of patient needs;
2) knowledge of growth and development; and
3) understanding of the range of treatment needed by the patients.

Competency Statement:
Must demonstrate competency through an initial orientation and ongoing competency validation to independently perform tasks and additional duties as specified in the job description and the unit/department specific competency checklist.

• Registered Nurse (Required)
• Basic Life Support (Required — within 30 days of hire)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (Required — within 1 year of hire)

Days

Full Time Regular 1.0

Women & Children’s Hospital — Charleston, WV