Patient Care Coordinator (RN) - ICU (Days)

About the role

The Patient Care Coordinator (PCC) is a Registered Nurse with a bachelor's degree in nursing.

Responsibilities

• Educate patients about their health conditions and develop a care plan to address their specific discharge needs.
• Facilitate communication between patients, families, caregivers, social service organizations and healthcare providers.
• Work with healthcare team members to coordinate care and manage resources with a focus on returning home with necessary resources to ensure quality, patient safety, and desired outcomes are achieved.
• Partner with the unit teammates and leaders to facilitate effective flow and capacity evidenced by decrease LOS, and decrease readmission.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Experience: Two years of related experience.
• Requires working knowledge of specialized practices, equipment, and procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in nursing required.
• Two years' experience in acute health care setting including involvement in direct patient care.
• Ability to identify improvement in clinical operations and implement change and willingness to challenge established way of doing things in a constructive way.
• Exemplifies a strong, positive attitude toward internal and external customers, patients, families and care team enhancing service excellence and overall improvement.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to form relationships quickly.
• Adept at using technology as a tool to support real-time education at the point of care.
• Uses continuum of care resources and consistently collaborates with families caregivers to expedite discharge plan as appropriate.

Skills

• Healthcare Provider (CPR)

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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