Nursing Coordinator

ON-SITE POSITION MAJOR FUNCTION

Under the general supervision of Director of Nursing or other administrator, plans, directs and evaluates total nursing care and coordination of patient care. Adhere to governing agencies rules and regulations. Responsible for orientation, training and management of personnel. Participate in all phases of education, maintenance of records and upgrading of policies, procedures and skills of personnel. Provide culturally competence care to a multicultural population.

Collaborates and communicates with primary care provider, multidisciplinary team members and ancillary health care providers about changes in patient's clinical condition, including results of diagnostic studies and symptomatology.

• Provides the best possible nursing care by planning, organizing and directing the nursing functions with patients on the unit
• Initiates and implements patient care plan. Case manages clinically complex patients.
• Makes nursing assignments appropriate to the skill level of employees.
• Focus on quality goals for patients and teams.
  Identifies issues and guides effective solutions.
• Promote daily huddles to plan care for the patients that are scheduled that day.
• Facilitate Team building team collaboration to facilitate joy in the workplace.
• Creates a working climate that promotes growth, teamwork, and job satisfaction of personnel
• Adhere to team daily chart check list for patient chart preparation prior to and during patient visits.
• Monitor and facilitate referral tracking of diagnostic imagine, referrals and care coordination.
• Monitor appropriate and timely scheduling and tracking of recommended diagnostic interventions component of care coordination.
• Assign and monitor staff buckets and cases.
• Supports and enforces infection-control policies and procedures.
• Participates in orientation and in-service training for personnel.
• Evaluates the performance of personnel with recommendations for appropriate action on an on-going and annual basis.
• Monitor medical equipment for safety and inspection.
• Assists in reviewing and revising policies and procedures.
• Cooperates and maintains a good relationship with nursing staff, medical staff, and other departments.
• Identifies educational in-services/seminars that would benefit the clinical personnel and keeps abreast of current programs and training issues which are nursing related.
• Maintain and monitor logbooks and staff buckets, projects, and ensure that staff persons are complying with the policies and procedures of the organization.
• Maintains on-going awareness of patient flow and ensures the proper scheduling of patients.
• Follow evidence-based guidelines to manage care as approved by HJA.
• Monitor patient self-management goals and teaching.
• Participate with population management in collaboration with the clinical and care teams as directed by using multiple templates tools: including preventive care templates, nursing visit standardization templates, health maintenance template, CEM, Business Objects reports, UDS reports and Performance Improvement Projects, Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance and any other plans or process to improve patient outcomes.
• Greets all patients/clients/ via telephone or directly in a personal and professional manner. Promotes positive patient relations.

• Consistently demonstrates competency in patient assessment and documents appropriate nursing diagnosis in medical record.
• Relates significant findings to provider.
• Consistently triages patients in person, or by telephone, in a manner which results in efficient and accurate patient disposition to appropriate resources.
• Prepares assigned patients for examinations and treatments following established nursing procedures.
• Assists provider staff and team with ancillary testing and other clinical duties
• Assists provider during examination and treatments in professional manner following acceptable nursing standards.
• Observes patient, records significant conditions and reactions in medical record and notifies supervisor or provider of patient's condition and reaction to drugs, treatments and significant incidents.
• Comprehensive assessment and Nurse triage following the nursing process.
• Completes appropriate nursing intervention according to recommendations of provider including, but not limited to medications, immunizations, tests, specimen collection, therapeutic treatments, etc.
• Instructs and counsels patients and/or significant others (with patient consent) regarding current health condition and health maintenance.
• Maintains accurate and complete nursing documentation in medical record and assures confidentiality of all information related to patients.
• Assists in maintaining and utilizing a variety of health record indexes, storage, recall, and retrieval systems, including automated data processing systems
• In-puts data into various computer programs including the electronic medical record,
• Completes and patient referral documents and pre-certifications, preauthorization in time frames…