Clinical Coordinator III/NP

Responsibilities

• Enhance patient education, post-operative teaching, medical clearance and long-term follow-up care.
• Perform and document comprehensive medical and psychosocial health histories and physical examinations.
• Provide clinical care including wound care, management of drains, chest tubes, gastrostomy and jejunostomy tubes, ostomies, central line troubleshooting, suture and staple removal, silver nitrate application to hypergranulation tissue.
• Initiate and maintain a problem/medication list.
• Order and interpret diagnostic studies including but not limited to laboratory and imaging studies, diagnostic impression, and/or form a differential based on the subjective and objective data obtained.
• Formulate a goal-directed plan that includes health maintenance, anticipatory guidance and appropriate medical and nursing interventions according to the established protocols.
• Assess and document patient responses to treatment and interventions, management and follow-up of patient's physical therapy, medication/pain management, education and other needs.
• Facilitate hospital admissions and discharges as well as coordinate appropriate in-house accommodation and home-care.
• Initiate referrals to other health care providers, and/or consult with the attending physician or the collaborating physician.
• Coordinate pre-operative medication evaluation.
• Gather, organize and correspond all information necessary for pre-certification.
• Triage patients prioritizing care based on the urgency or severity of their condition.
• Provide information on health promotion and disease prevention to patients and families.
• Review, disseminate, and incorporate research findings into clinical practice.
• Assist with child and adolescent metabolic and bariatric surgery prescreening evaluation, including surgery readiness, medical and nutritional optimization, preoperative education, long-term post-op management, and collaboration with the CABS team with appropriate referrals.
• Perform care and coordination in multidisciplinary clinics including the Esophageal Atresia clinic, Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Clinic, Myelomeningocele, Bowel Management Clinic and Center for Adolescent and Bariatric Surgery.

Qualifications

• Nurse Practitioners: Master's Degree of Nursing or equivalent in education.
• 3 years of nursing or related experience.
• Minimum Certification Required Upon Start Date NYS RN and NP Licenses and ANCC or AANP Board Certification.
• BLS, ACLS, PALS Certification.
• NYS DEA Certification.