Clinical Coordinator RN - 3 South Medical

About the role

Provides operational shift oversight, delegates care to staff and facilitates timely patient admission, transfer and discharge. Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process and collaborates with other healthcare team members.

Responsibilities

• Establishes positive rapport with patient and family.
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; provides education to patient, and family in a manner they can understand their condition, medications, and self-care skills, etc. and provides them ample opportunity to ask questions.
• Serves as patient/family advocate.
• Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting accurately and timely; communicating actions, irregularities, and on-going needs.
• Uses a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems.
• Identifies, synthesizes, and interprets sources of data using reasonable clinical judgement to respond to dynamic situations in a timely and effective manner.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Uses ethical decision making processes and advocates for acceptable patient outcomes.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
• Serves as a teacher, coach and mentor to staff.
• Contributes to the development and revision of unit standards.
• Efficient conflict resolution and problem solving skills.
• Serves as staff leader related to process/performance improvement activities/initiatives utilizing evidence based practice to maintain and/or improve quality of care and safe patient care systems and processes.
• Fosters interdisciplinary communication and collaboration.
• Serves as a resource and role model to all members of the patient care team for patient care and professionalism.
• Recognizes and responds appropriately to complex situations.
• Participates in and provides input for patient care conferences and discharge planning conferences.
• Captures and documents all patient care activities accurately and timely.
• Provides safe, appropriate, quality of care and support to patients and family members.
• Holds team members accountable for standards of care, policy and procedures, bedside reporting, etc.

Requirements

• Minimum Education: Bachelors of Science in Nursing
• Minimum Years of Experience: 2 Years of experience in areas of specialty within the past 5 years
• Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): Consideration will be given to those with an ADN or Diploma nursing degree who are presently enrolled in a RN to BS in Nursing or RN to MS in nursing program with the expectation that the degree be completed within 12 months of hire/promotion into the Clinical Coordinator role.
• Required Certifications/Licensure: National nursing certification in specialty at time of hire/promotion or must obtain within 6 months of hire/promotion into role; Current RN license to practice in the State of South Carolina;
• Required Training: None.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education: Bachelors of Science in Nursing
• Minimum Years of Experience: 2 Years of experience in areas of specialty within the past 5 years
• Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): Consideration will be given to those with an ADN or Diploma nursing degree who are presently enrolled in a RN to BS in Nursing or RN to MS in nursing program with the expectation that the degree be completed within 12 months of hire/promotion into the Clinical Coordinator role.
• Required Certifications/Licensure: National nursing certification in specialty at time of hire/promotion or must obtain within 6 months of hire/promotion into role; Current RN license to practice in the State of South Carolina;
• Required Training: None.

Skills

• Systematic critical-thinking approach
• Data gathering, assessment, nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation
• Interdisciplinary communication and collaboration
• Collaboration with instructors from affiliating agencies
• Feedback and insight regarding unit operations and employee performance
• Process/performance improvement activities/initiatives utilizing evidence based practice

Benefits

We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our employees and their families:

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary
• Adoption assistance
• LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness

Pay

Sign-On Bonus: 20,000

Schedule

PM/N Shift
7p-7a

Contact Information

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Lexington Health to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. Lexington Health strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. Lexington Health endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee’s desires and abilities and the hospital’s needs.