Nurse Care Coordinator

Job Details

Job Location:

Agency - Glenwood Springs, CO 81601

Position Type:
Full Time

Education Level: Graduate Degree

Salary Range: $80,080.00 - $

Job Shift: Any

Job Category:
Nurse

Nurse Care Coordinator – Responsible for monitoring, assessing, and addressing health and medical needs for Mountain Valley Clients in the Garfield, Pitkin, Eagle, and Lake Counties. The Nurse Care Coordinator supports medical staff in their duties and responsibilities, demonstrating a strong work ethic, solution‑oriented thinking, open‑mindedness, active listening, good judgment, decisiveness, accountability, and strategic thought.

• Provide and evaluate training for medical and direct support staff, including QMAP classes, delegation tasks, and health protocol implementation.
• Conduct routine site visits, assess medical needs, review vitals, complete annual case reviews, and provide guidance during emergencies or treatment questions.
• Perform clinical tasks such as blood draws, ear lavages, and flu shots; develop and manage individualized health and nutrition protocols in collaboration with providers.
• Facilitate hospital admissions/discharges, oversee psychiatric services, and monitor individuals on psychotropic medications including tardive dyskinesia screenings.
• Coordinate and monitor follow‑up on medical appointments and treatments, ensuring accurate implementation of provider orders and documentation standards.
• Act as a liaison between staff, families, medical professionals, and pharmacies to ensure clear, respectful, and timely communication regarding medical care.
• Maintain thorough medical records, review communication logs, and ensure compliance with health documentation procedures and standards.
• Update healthcare procedures to align with regulations, manage prescription disposal, administer TB tests, and report medical complaints to leadership.
• Conduct and record reviews of all residents who have not expressed interest in self‑administering their medications to determine incapacity of safe self‑medicating. (6 CCR 1011—Chapter 8 14.5
  
  B)
• Conduct and document an annual capability assessment of residents who are self‑medicating. (6 CCR 1011—Chapter 8 14.5 B 2 (c))
• Provide and document training to residents who are self‑medicating as needed based on monitoring and assessment results.
• Review and document findings of the medications & dosages of self‑administering residents at least quarterly. (6 CCR 1011—Chapter 8 14.1)
• Train, determine the competence of, and monitor QMAPs who provide specialized care in licensed settings. (6 CCR 1011—Chapter 8 16.2)
• Ensure each resident who utilizes gastrostomy services has a comprehensive, written protocol in place. (6 CCR 1011—Chapter 8 17.2)
• Provide training of QMAPs on gastrostomy services initially and upon changes made to it & document accordingly. (6 CCR 1011—Chapter 8 17.3‑17.5, 17.7)
• After initial training, conduct observations of QMAPs providing gastrostomy services quarterly for 12 months and then every 6 months after the first year. (6 CCR 1011—Chapter 8 17.3‑17.6)
• Monitor for individuals taking psychotropic medications for tardive dyskinesia and other abnormal movements, neurotoxicity, and neuroleptic malignant syndrome as time allows or as requested. (10 CCR 2505‑10 8.609.6.
  
  D. 8 e.)
• Teach QMAP classes and perform observations of staff as requested. (6 CCR 1011‑1 Chapter 24)
• Perform clinics including, but not limited to, nail and ear irrigation as time allows.
• Participate in activities that contribute to ongoing development of the profession’s body of knowledge.
• Visit people on site routinely and as needed to assess and determine medical needs and health.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of individualized health care, therapeutic and nutritional…