RN Clinical Coordinator (Lex) - Intermediate ICU (IICU)

About the role

Provides operational shift oversight, delegates care to staff and facilitates timely patient admission, transfer and discharge. Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process and collaborating with other healthcare team members.

Responsibilities

• Establishes positive rapport with patient and family.
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; provides education to patient, and family in a manner they can understand their condition, medications, and self-care skills, etc. and provides them ample opportunity to ask questions.
• Serves as patient/family advocate.
• Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting accurately and timely; communicating actions, irregularities, and on-going needs.
• Uses a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems.
• Identifies, synthesizes, and interprets sources of data using reasonable clinical judgement to respond to dynamic situations in a timely and effective manner.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Uses ethical decision making processes and advocates for acceptable patient outcomes.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
• Serves as a staff leader related to process/performance improvement activities/initiatives utilizing evidence based practice to maintain and/or improve quality of care and safe patient care systems and processes.
• Fosters interdisciplinary communication and collaboration.
• Serves as a resource and role model to all members of the patient care team for patient care and professionalism.
• Recognizes and responds appropriately to complex situations.
• Participates in and provides input for patient care conferences and discharge planning conferences.
• Captures timely patient throughput (admissions, discharges, transfers) and facilitates smooth transitions of care throughout hospitalization.
• Negotiates for nursing resources to adequately meet the patient care needs.
• Ensures patient care assignments are based on acuity of patients and skill level of nurse.
• Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Demonstrates effective teamwork skills and maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.
• Promptly responds to all communication devices in order to meet patient needs.
• Assists in performing and documenting environmental checks as required by LMC policy and regulatory agencies.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Maintains required certifications.
• Earns a minimum of 20 hours of continuing education annually within specialty.
• L&D Only: A nurse must have documented competency and completion of department orientation to complete a medical screening exam (EMTALA).

Requirements

• Minimum Education: Bachelors of Science in Nursing
• Minimum Years of Experience: 2 Years of experience in areas of specialty within the past 5 years
• Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): Consideration will be given to those with an ADN or Diploma nursing degree who are presently enrolled in a RN to BS in Nursing or RN to MS in nursing program with the expectation that the degree be completed within 12 months of hire/promotion into the Clinical Coordinator role.

Qualifications

• Required Certifications/Licensure: National nursing certification in specialty at time of hire/promotion or must obtain within 6 months of hire/promotion into role; Current RN license to practice in the State of South Carolina.
• Refer to Mandatory Certification Requirements P&P for required education/certification for various nursing specialties.

Skills

• Effective teamwork skills
• Cooperative relationships
• Interdisciplinary communication
• Collaborative skills
• Problem-solving skills

Benefits

Lexington Health offers a range of benefits including:

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary
• Adoption assistance
• LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in this job posting.

Schedule

The schedule for this position is 7am-7:30pm, Monday through Friday.