PRN Nursing Coordinator at our HUP Cedar location

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to its tripartite mission of providing the highest quality of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaborating with top clinical, technical, and business professionals across all disciplines.

About the role

This PRN role will be at our HUP Cedar location. The role will be 12 hour rotating shifts.

Responsibilities

• Represents the hospital, and when appropriate, responds to patient, visitor, and hospital personnel issues.
• Provides both clinical and managerial mentorship to unit charge nurses in the absence of unit leadership.
• Manages hospital emergencies, working with the Administrator on Call to optimize outcomes.
• Collaborates with the CDs, Nurse Managers, and charge nurses on the allocation of clinically competent staff based on units’ census, NHPPD algorithm, and patient acuity.
• Supports nursing division in balancing financial models to achieve budget targets and organizational objectives.
• Collaborates with Bed Management to determine bed availability and prioritization of bed assignments.
• Participates in the coordination and response to unusual events, such as mass casualty, floods, bomb threats, fires, and radiation exposure.
• Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing
• 3+ years of direct patient care
• 1+ years Nursing supervisory experience
• Inpatient nurse manager experience preferred, strong charge nurse experience acceptable
• Master's Degree Nursing preferred
• Registered Nurse in PA
• RN BLS and ACLS required