Nurse Coordinator, Part Time PM (BayPointe)

Essential Functions

• Assists with the orientation of new nursing staff
• Conducts staff meetings to address consumer, facility, and programmatic needs
• Effectively communicates on a regular basis with staff, consumers, families as well as internal departments and external providers to meet consumer needs
• Ensures the staffing mix is based upon the education preparedness and clinical competence of the nursing staff
• Reviews consumer records to ensure compliance with regulatory standards
• Ensures quality care is provided throughout the consumer’s length of stay; oversees the coordination of patient care to ensure consumer’s needs are met and policies are followed
• Conducts hospital rounds with staff to direct, demonstrate and evaluate delivery of consumer care and to ensure safety throughout the facility
• Ensures adequate staff coverage throughout the facility
• Accepts on-call responsibilities
• Accepts and employs suggestions for improvement
• Participates in performance improvement initiatives, per hospital policy
• Participates in AltaPointe committees as required
• Completes assigned tasks in a timely manner
• Accesses appropriate community resources according to consumer needs
• Maintains current State license and requirements for renewals (i.e. CEU’s), and attends to required in-services and workshops

Physical Requirements

• Frequent standing, sitting, and walking which are in bursts of 5 to 10 minutes
• Sometimes need to bend forward from the hips while kneeling to reach to the side
• Sometimes need to assume a full squat/lunge from a standing position
• Sometimes need to maintain back extension while being on stomach with one’s own body weight on hips and legs for several minutes
• Sometimes need to kneel and reach to same side toward the floor
• Sometimes need to lift up to 10 pounds from the floor to various levels, including from the floor to overhead occasionally during shift
• Sometimes need to lift up to 50 pounds to assist in Activities of Daily Living, as required
• Sometimes need to lift up to 50 pounds from floor to waist
• Sometimes need strong grasp to use keys to open doors throughout the facility, and to maintain constant contact with a consumer during a restraint procedure or with other hold techniques
• Sometimes need to push/pull force up to 25 pounds occasionally during shift
• Sometimes need to ambulate as quickly as possible to assist coworkers with a consumer in a restraint procedure (Example jog/run up to 0.1 mi)
• Sometimes need to play or engage in games inside or outside the facility

Qualifications

• Valid RN license