GI Nurse Coordinator, Days, 40 hrs, Hematology Oncology

About the role

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. Coordinates care for patients receiving treatment in a specialty service, including the evaluation, assessment, scheduling, consultation and treatment of patients in order to implement a seamless progression of care to meet the patient's needs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with physicians and other health care providers to coordinate the care for patients from referral/consultation to discharge /follow up.
• Serves as contact and facilitator to receive consults and patient information.
• Coordinates and ensures all patient scheduling including but not limited to consultation, diagnostic and treatment procedures.
• Gathers information for history and physical.
• Performs and documents evaluations and assessments of patient.
• Affords assistance in ordering labs, x-rays, and diagnostic procedures.
• Works in collaboration with surgeons and physicians in educating the patients and their families in medical care.
• Affords assistance in developing patient/family educational materials.
• Participates in patient rounds and case conferences.
• Updates clinical knowledge and skills through consultation, formal and informal education, and review of literature for self and clinical team.
• Makes and answers patient phone calls, both pre and post treatment/procedure, from patients referring providers, and outside facilities (hospitals, rehabilitation centers, physician offices).

Requirements

• Associate's degree in Nursing required. Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred.
• Licensed Registered Nurse required.
• American Heart Association - Basic Life Support Certificate required.
• 1-3 years related work experience required.
• Experience with computer systems required, including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in specialty service preferred.

Skills

Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.

Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.

Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.

Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.

Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.

Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.

Teamwork: Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows.

Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.

Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s).

Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in specialty service preferred.

Competencies

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.
• Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.
• Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
• Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
• Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
• Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.
• Teamwork: Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows.
• Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.
• Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s).
• Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.

Age Based Competencies

• Neonatal: Birth to 6 months
• Youth: 6 months to 16 years
• Young adult: 16-30 years
• Middle Age: 30 - 60 years
• Elderly: 60 - over

Social/Environmental Requirements

• Work requires close attention to task for work to be accurately completed.
• Intermittent breaks during the work day do not compromise the work.
• Work is varied every day and the employee needs to be adaptable to respond to these changes and use independent judgment and manage priorities.
• Potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions Daily: Protective equipment required (Respirator, earplugs, mask, gloves, eyewear etc), Potential exposure to infectious diseases and/or airborne pathogens, Potential exposure to infectious diseases and/or bloodborne pathogens.
• Health Care Status: HCW1: Regular, day-to-day contact; both face-to-face and hands-on (having close contact within three feet for at least five minutes). Examples: physicians, clinical nurses, phlebotomist, medical assistants, PFT tech, and x-ray tech - Health Care Worker Status may vary by department
• Sensory Requirements: Close work (paperwork, visual examination), Color vision/perception, Visual monotony, Visual clarity > 20 feet, Visual clarity
• Physical Requirements: Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and or up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Job is physical in nature and employee needs to stand and/or move around through the majority of their shift. This job requires constant walking, standing, Endurance-working up to 3-4 hours without a break, frequent bending neck, bending waist, twisting neck, twisting waist, Power Grasping using both hands, Fine Manipulation using both hands, Pushing/Pulling using both hands, Keyboard use, Reaching-above shoulder height, Reaching-below shoulder height, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 50 lbs, Pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 100 pounds without assistance, Pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 250 pounds with assistance, Pushing items weighing up to or more than 100 lbs, Push a wheelchair or wheeled bed containing a patient weighing up to 250 pounds, with assistance.

Pay Range

$39.14 - $101.14