RN Care Coordinator

About the role

This position is responsible for planning, directing, providing and documenting nursing care to patients of the Children’s Clinics.

Responsibilities

• Adheres to approved standards of triage and nursing practice throughout the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation phases of the nursing process
• Facilitates scheduling of patient appointments to ensure urgent patient needs are met
• Assesses the severity and urgency of telephone calls and triages patient calls and develops a plan using the triage process and nursing assessment
• Reviews the medical record and coordinates the acquisition of patient records, procedure reports, diagnostic test results, database information, slides and any missing reports or information
• Assesses and documents patient intake information and determines nursing actions required
• Provides supervision/guidance to Medical Assistants to assure effective patient flow as needed
• Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates the nursing care of patients to include nursing assessments; observing, recording and reporting pertinent patient status information; administering