Nurse Coordinator - Young Adult

Responsibilities

• Communicate in a therapeutic, respectful way with patients at the patients’ level of understanding.
• Investigate and follow up on complaints or concerns from patients’ family members.
• Assign inpatient rooms based on requirements of programming tracks on inpatient unit(s).
• Reassign nursing staff as necessary to provide optimum coverage and regulatory/compliance requirements.
• Manage milieu and operational concerns on unit(s).
• Assist and provides direction to nursing staff in resolving problems.
• Apprise nurse leader of concerns that require her/his attention.
• In the absence of or as delegated by the nurse leader, assesses and coordinates the resolution of clinical crises.
• Provide significant input into the procedures and protocols for the unit.
• Support to nurse leader by interviewing and screening candidates for existing nursing vacancies.
• Orient new nursing staff to the unit.
• Maintain appropriate documentation regarding new employee and ongoing education and training, competency assessment and performance appraisal, working with Human Resources as needed.
• Identify nursing staff education needs and recommends methods of staff development to nurse leader.
• Provide input into the performance appraisals of RNs, mental health workers and unit support staff.
• Utilize clinical expertise in the provision of direct patient care as needed, consultative activities, staff development, and treatment planning.
• Provide quality nursing care services that are based on an understanding of the needs of the assigned patient population.
• Assist nurse leader in evaluating and monitoring nursing documentation and initiates corrective action to ensure compliance with internal and external standards.
• Suggest ways in which the unit/program can maintain and improve safety.
• Attend required in-services for updates and reviews.
• Maintain confidentiality with regard to all communication pertaining to patients, families and organizational business.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited program of nursing (BSN preferred) and possession of a current license as a Registered Nurse in the State of Maryland at the time of appointment and continuously while in position.
• Work requires clinical and managerial skills, knowledge of psychiatric nursing, and comprehensive knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of assigned patient population - acquired through two to three years of related experience, 1 of which must be in inpatient psychiatric nursing.
• Work requires interpersonal skills sufficient to provide effective leadership for assigned personnel and to interact effectively with psychiatrically and physically ill patients, family members, visitors and a variety of Sheppard Pratt departments (51 to 80% of work time).
• Work requires analytical and problem-solving abilities necessary to reassign nursing staff to meet programming demands of unit; screen applicants (with supervision of nurse leader); identify training needs; and resolve nursing and administrative issues in absence of the nurse leader.
• Affected employees must have an active Maryland nursing license to practice in the state of Maryland, or must have an active license in a compact state that allows them to practice in Maryland, if they reside in that compact state.