RN Clinical Coordinator - Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)

About the role

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Participates in and provides input for patient care conferences and discharge planning conferences.
• Coordinates timely patient throughput (admissions, discharges, transfers) and facilitates smooth transitions of care throughout hospitalization.
• Supports shared governance activities by serving on a unit or hospital based committee.

Requirements

• Establishes positive rapport with patient and family.
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; providing 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.
• 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.
• Participates in process/performance improvement activities and initiatives utilizing evidence based practice to maintain and/or improve quality of care and safe patient care systems and processes.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education: Bachelors of Science in Nursing
• Minimum Years of Experience: 2 Years of experience in areas of specialty within the past 5 years
• 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;

Skills

• Effective teamwork skills
• Positive rapport with health care team
• Collaborates with instructors from affiliating agencies
• Provides feedback and insight regarding unit operations and employee performance

Benefits

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Employee may elect 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

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full Time, Night Shift (7pm-730am)