RN Nursing Coordinator - Eastowne Nursing Support Services

About the Role

Provides clinical administrative nursing care coordination in support of a patient care area. Duties include one or more of the following: care coordination, discharge planning, data analysis and performance metrics, and patient/staff education.

Responsibilities

• Assesses patient status of a specialized population.
• Rounds with an interdisciplinary health care team to determine patient care needs and coordinate ongoing acute care and long-term needs.
• Uses expertise and experience in specialty practice to facilitate patient care.
• Acts as a liaison between the patient, family and health care team to communicate patient care needs including coordination of patient/family care conferences.
• Collaborates with health care team to provide information and resources to facilitate patient care.
• Provides inservices and formal presentations to nursing, medical and ancillary staff on topics related to the specialized patient population.
• Assists staff in the development of patient education materials for the patient population.
• Performs patient teaching related to specific topics and patient needs.
• Documents patient teaching in the medical record in the appropriate sections.
• Collects data related to specialized patient population and analyzes for trends.
• Enters data or coordinates its entry into databases and registries for benchmarking purposes.
• Participates in performance improvement activities to promote quality patient care.
• Analyzes data for trends and makes suggestions for revisions to patient care protocols for the patient population.
• Monitors outcomes of care for patient population and collaborates with the interdisciplinary health care team on evaluation of outcomes.
• Coordinates patient care for post-hospitalization care and discharge planning.
• Makes referrals to other care providers during acute care episode and for post-discharge care.
• Communicates discharge needs to interdisciplinary health care team, patient and family.
• Coordinates appointments with clinics, outside referral sources, home care, durable medical equipment providers and other providers to ensure continuity of care for the patient.
• Attends care conferences and interdisciplinary care rounds.
• Documents care planning and communication with health care providers in the medical record.
• Promotes own professional development through attending inservices and presentations.
• Keeps current in practice through conferences, reading current literature and research.
• Role models professional nursing practice to others through use of the nursing process and professional behaviors.

Requirements

• Graduation from a state-accredited school of professional nursing.
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.
• Five (5) years of professional nursing experience.

Pay

$35.87 - $51.57 per hour (Hiring Range)

Schedule

• Full Time
• Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
• Work Schedule: Day
• Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Job Location: Chapel Hill, NC