Clinical Coordinator III​/RN

Grade 105

• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary:
  Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard
  
  Work Schedule:
  
  M-F; 9AM-5PM
• Building:
• Salary Range: $-$

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Under the general direction of the Clinical Nurse Manager and the General Dermatologist, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for the management of nursing patient care across two faculty practice sites including a hospital sponsored teaching clinic. In addition to the primary responsibilities within the division of General Dermatology, the clinical nurse will be expected to assist in other department divisions including Oncology Dermatology.

Tasks include but are not limited to: coordinating patient care; assisting in all procedures; developing a nurse-patient/family relationship; and assessing and managing patients within all patient age groups from pediatrics to geriatrics. Perform diagnostic testing and analysis of results. The incumbent needs to be a meticulous recorder of patient information. Therefore, excellent interpersonal communication skills are a must, along with the ability to extract information during patient history interviews.

The nurse must be able to carefully and easily explain a treatment and follow-up plan to patients.

Other duties will include following up on laboratory and pathology results, answering pre- and post-procedural questions, answering questions relevant to patient treatment plans, ordering lab tests and medication under the guidance of the physician, gathering data, and acting as a liaison.

• Assist Physicians with assessment, evaluation and management of patient care of patients.
• Communicate all clinical activity to supervising Physician.
• Reports to supervising Physician, assists in surgical procedures.
• Prepare, dilute, draw up medication as needed for use in the faculty practice and Resident clinic.
• Prepares equipment and aids physician during patient examinations, surgical procedures and diagnostic testing of patients.
• Observes, records, and reports patient's condition and reaction to drugs and treatments to physicians. Dispenses medication as directed.
• Provides back-up support for Dermatology medical procedures in both faculty practices and Resident Dermatology clinic.
• Assess patients using all available physical and diagnostic data, incorporating medical history and evaluate patient status and progress with current plan of care.
• Maintains exam rooms for necessary supplies and materials. Ensures cleanliness. Provides support when preparing list of supplies needed.
• Provide coverage, when needed to monitor and assess patients during and after selected therapies. Some infusions will require on-site monitoring if infusion reaction/allergic reaction occurs; perform CPR.
• Attend staff meetings, patient support meeting, and continuing education pertaining to specialty as appropriate.
• Participate in all quality improvement/process improvement initiatives.
• Participate in sign-out activities and all patient follow up.
• Perform patient and family education and counseling including disease state, management/plan of care, side effect, treatment, medications, all follow up.
• Perform phone triage as appropriate and provide phone follow up/direction to patient appropriate to situation.
• Ensures compliance with applicable regulatory agency standards (e.g., OSHA, JCAHO, DOH, HIPAA, billing compliance, etc.).
• Provide cross coverage and other duties in other areas as the need arises.

The clinical nurse will also be administering extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) treatments to patients with Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma (CTCL) using the Therakos Cellex Photopheresis System. The role includes patient assessment, preparation, treatment administration, post-treatment care, and clinical trial…