Registered Nurse - In-Patient Care Coordinator

About SEARHC

South East Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) is a non-profit health consortium that serves the health interests of the residents of Southeast Alaska. SEARHC supports its employees as its strongest assets and emphasizes professional advancement and a positive work culture.

Pay Range: $41.66 - $58.69 per hour. Sign-on bonus up to $25K and relocation bonus up to $10K for qualified hire. Benefits include retirement, paid time off, paid parental leave, health insurance, dental, vision, life insurance, long-term and short-term disability, and additional perks.

The Registered Nurse (RN) provides professional nursing care across the lifespan in accordance with organizational standards, policies, and evidence-based practice. The RN uses the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care while delivering high-quality, culturally sensitive, and patient-centered services. The RN collaborates with providers and interdisciplinary teams to promote optimal patient outcomes, safety, and positive patient experience.

The Acute Care Registered Nurse delivers direct nursing care to patients across the lifespan with acute, chronic, and post-operative conditions across a broad range of diagnoses. This role requires strong clinical assessment skills, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the ability to manage fluctuating patient acuity in an inpatient setting.

• Independently apply critical thinking and professional judgment to perform and interpret comprehensive assessments, identify significant changes in patient condition, and determine appropriate nursing interventions or provider notifications.
• Determines appropriate nursing actions, interventions, and priorities, and identifies when consultation, collaboration, or escalation to a licensed independent provider is required.
• Develops, implements, evaluates, and revises individualized nursing plans based on patient needs, responses, preferences, and clinical circumstances, rather than relying solely on standardized protocols.
• Integrates clinical findings with ethical principles, cultural considerations, patient safety standards, and regulatory requirements when making nursing decisions.
• Accepts accountability for nursing decisions, delegated tasks, and outcomes of nursing care in accordance with Alaska statutes, regulations, and organizational policy.

• Collaborates with providers and interdisciplinary team members to coordinate care.
• Facilitates referrals, follow-up care, and continuity of services.
• Documents assessments, interventions, and outcomes accurately and timely in the electronic health record.
• Advocates for patient care and assists patients in navigating the healthcare system.

• Adheres to regulatory, safety, and infection prevention requirements within nursing scope of practice.
• Participates in quality and performance improvement activities.
• Maintains required competencies and certifications.
• Reports adverse events, near misses, and unsafe conditions per policy.

• Demonstrates professionalism, accountability, flexibility, and teamwork.
• Provides appropriate guidance and delegation to ancillary staff.
• Supports orientation, mentoring, and education of staff, students, and peers.
• Floats to other departments or assignments as needed.

• Associate’s degree in Nursing from an accredited program.
• Current, unrestricted Registered Nurse license in the State of Alaska.
• Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) required at the time of hire and within 3 months and every 3 years as appropriate.
• High‑Risk Competency required within 3 months and annually thereafter.

• All certifications required for the area of practice must be obtained within 6 months of hire (e.g., ACLS, PALS, NRP, TNCC, ENPC as applicable).
• For new nursing program graduates: BLS required at the time of hire.
• Experienced nurses entering a new specialty must obtain required…