Nursing Coordinator - Trauma

Description

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Summary

Provides clinical administrative nursing care coordination in support of a patient care area.

Responsibilities

• Assesses patient status of a specialized population.
• Rounds with an interdisciplinary health care team to determine patient care needs and coordinate ongoing acute care and long-term needs.
• Uses expertise and experience in specialty practice to facilitate patient care.
• Acts as a liaison between the patient, family and health care team to communicate patient care needs including coordination of patient/family care conferences.
• Collaborates with health care team to provide information and resources to facilitate patient care.
• Provides inservices and formal presentations to nursing, medical and ancillary staff on topics related to the specialized patient population.
• Aid staff in the development of patient education materials for the patient population.
• Performs patient teaching related to specific topics and patient needs.
• Documents patient teaching in the medical record in the appropriate sections.
• Collects data related to specialized patient population and analyzes for trends.
• Enters data or coordinates its entry into databases and registries for benchmarking purposes.
• Participates in performance improvement activities to promote quality patient care.
• Analyzes data for trends and makes suggestions for revisions to patient care protocols for the patient population.
• Makes referrals to other care providers during acute care episode and for post-discharge care.
• Communicates discharge needs to interdisciplinary health care team, patient and family.
• Captures appointments with clinics, outside referral sources, home care, durable medical equipment providers and other providers to ensure continuity of care for the patient.
• Attends care conferences and interdisciplinary care rounds.
• Documents care planning and communication with health care providers in the medical record.
• Promotes own professional development through attending inservices and presentations.
• Keeps current in practice through conferences, reading current literature and research.

Qualifications

• Graduation from a state-accredited school of professional nursing.
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.
• Five (5) years of professional nursing experience.

Benefits

Incentives: $10,000 commitment incentive paid out in installments over 3 years.

Pay

$35.87 - $51.57 per hour (Hiring Range)

Schedule

Day

Location

US:NC:Chapel Hill