Patient Care Coord

Job Details

Job Location:

Medicine Acute - Memphis, TN 38103

Position Type:
Full Time

Travel Percentage:
Negligible

Job Shift: Night

Job Category:
Nursing Services

Serves as charge nurse and assists in supervision of patient care by coordinating, implementing and monitoring shift activities to provide optimal patient care. Assigns duties/activities to professional/ancillary staff based on the patient's acuity level in accordance with established policies and procedures for effective utilization of patient care givers, supplies and equipment. Provides nursing care and performs activities of staff RN.

• Ensure continuity of appropriate patient care by planning staff assignments, providing direct patient care, and evaluating outcome of care within assigned unit.
• Coordinate, implement and monitor shift activities to facilitate efficient unit operations and to ensure that patient care plans are maintained.
• Assist in the formulation and implementation of unit specific procedures and policies.
• Assess the patient's physical, emotional, and social circumstances; make nursing rounds; determine if planned or required care has been provided; make individual decisions and referrals to other services for the patient's well-being; and participate in patient-centered staff conferences.
• Develop, assign and/or review the development and modification of plans which provide safe nursing care.
• Serve as the unit liaison and resource nurse-in-charge, exchanging information with staff and physicians. Contact other services for specialized treatment, tests, facilities, equipment and material support to the unit.
• Maintain safety and control of patients, employees and visitors in the unit; investigate and prepare reports on accidents and other incidents involving patients, employees and visitors.
• Perform duties of Staff Nurse and other nursing personnel as needed.
• Make daily staffing adjustments, assign work to professional/ancillary staff according to patient acuity levels to ensure that all work is performed in accordance with established policies, procedures and standards of care.
• Assign employees daily to perform tasks on the basis of available skills and with consideration for the needs of each patient; set priorities and redirect employees to other tasks as the need arises.
• Oversee the work of nursing personnel and instruct them in providing technical care such as the administration of drugs and the set‑up, regulation and monitoring of intravenous and other equipment.
• Review observations and nursing interpretation of patient data and condition and interpretation of electronic and other instrumentation displays.
• Collaborate with manager and educator to facilitate assignment of new employees for in‑service instruction and orientation.
• Assist in the orientation and oversee the supervision of students when they provide patient care, treatment, and services as part of their training.
• Verify that all nursing tasks and ordered medical treatments/diagnostic procedures have been performed and documented in the medical record.
• Demonstrate knowledge of fiscal management process and make decisions which utilize resources effectively. Apply cost efficient measures in the utilization of personnel, supplies and equipment and ensure charges are captured for services provided.
• Answer inquiries; communicate and interpret policies, procedures and standards of practice to staff/patient/family/visitors to promote understanding and ensure consistency in the application of policies and procedures.
• Interpret nursing goals, policies and procedures governing nursing security, safety and visiting conditions to employees, patients and visitors.
• Investigate and answer queries from physicians, patients and visitors about patient care.
• Resolve…