Registered Nurse Coordinator

Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

12 Hour Night Shift

Description:

This leadership role works alongside the unit manager with our fast-paced Emergency Department team of interdisciplinary professionals ready to promote and restore health to all who enter. Divided into four major zones with waiting area, registration area and triage area, we efficiently provide care for all specialties and all ages. Our leadership team works alongside staff to support and encourage. The Emergency Department offers a wide variety of patient experiences from minor injuries in our Speed Unit, to Cardiac Arrest and Trauma. The department offers paid training for ACLS, PALS, ENPC TNCC and a comprehensive orientation program. Our goal is to provide consistent, excellent care to all patients. If you are looking for an exciting career, this is your opportunity.

The Registered Nurse Coordinator is a dynamic leadership role that contributes to the operational management of the unit to promote and support an environment of excellent patient care. An individual in this role ensures compliance with all healthcare standards and requirements established by various licensing, regulatory, and accreditation bodies. A Coordinator maintains a working knowledge of policies and procedures to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior. A Coordinator provides unit-based leadership while engaging staff and promoting evidenced based practice that supports and leads unit and/or organizational changes. A RN Coordinator helps to identify problems, offers solutions, and participates in their resolution. A candidate for this role should be comfortable providing patient care, managing staff, making decisions independently, and assuming managerial duties as necessary.

Organization Highlights:

• Our Trinity Health Culture: Our staff know, understand, incorporate & demonstrate our Trinity Health Mission, Values, Vision, through their actions, behaviors, practices & decisions.

• Leadership: Shared Governance to leaders are accessible. Unit practice counsels and open-door guiding principle for shared decision-making. All our employees have a voice.

• Well-Being: Practice in an environmentally safe, professional & healthy atmosphere. Our staff are supported by a variety of resources for physical and mental health.

• Professional Relationships : Strong rapport with our interdisciplinary team including ortho, bariatric & neurosurgery physicians & clinical affiliates, rehab services, pharmacy and nutritional services.

• Professional Development: Strong education program, generous tuition allowance and clinical ladder incentives. We encourage job share opportunities to enhance satisfaction and growth.

• Work/Life: Predictable scheduling options balance work/life/school calendars.

• Safety: Only local hospital to receive a Leapfrog A for safety.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, coordinate, and implement staffing plan to ensure adequate care coverage.

• Evaluate retrospective, current and prospective unit productivity and adjust to reach targeted levels.

• Coordinate patient admissions, discharges and transfers to achieve most appropriate bed utilization in collaboration with Administrative Coordinator Office.

• Coordinate response to urgent/emergent situations as evidenced by reallocation of personnel and resources.

• Participate in patient care activities as determined by unit needs.

• Implement appropriate service recovery strategies.

• Collaborate with nursing education to facilitate orientation initiatives and provide preceptor education and support.

• Participate in hiring, evaluating, initiating corrective action and terminating employees as needed.

• Educate team members in theoretical and clinical competencies associated with care delivery typical of unit.

• Collaborate with unit leadership to provide formal feedback through performance development process.

• Collaborate with unit leadership to achieve unit and organizational quality improvement and outcome-based initiatives.

• Responsible for collaboration, communication & facilitation of optimal provision of care in addition to being involved in the provision of direct care of patients and families.

• Ensures quality nursing care is rendered to all patients in accordance with the New York Nurse Practice Act, National Standards of Practice, and Nursing and Clinical Service standards of care and practice.

• Ensure a seamless, effective, efficient transition of care across the continuum.

• Participates in monitoring quality metrics specific to the department & ensure complete & accurate documentation in the patient record.

• Act as 1) mentor; 2) clinician; 3) educator; 4) consultant/collaborator; and 5) navigator.

Education, Training, Experience, Certification and Licensure:

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing, according to NYS requirements.

• Two years progressive experience in Oncology or leadership preferred. Ideally the candidate will have strong clinical skills, leadership qualities and must be actively working toward an advanced degree.

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing and current licensure as a Registered Nurse in New York State.

• Specialty credentialing & educational degree according to clinical nursing practice specialty area preferred.

• Maintains all licensures and certifications according to NYS regulations and specialty area requirements.

• Participates in continuing education and updates and maintains knowledge and skills related to specific areas of expertise.

Career Advancement Opportunities:

• Clinical ladder advancement with experience, staff engagement, and national certification.

• Career path to leadership roles.

Mission Statement:

• We, St Joseph's Health, and Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Vision:

• To be world-renowned for passionate patient care and outstanding clinical outcomes.

Core Values:

• In the spirit of good Stewardship, we heal by practicing Justice in fostering right relationships to promote common good, Reverence in honoring the dignity of every person, Excellence in expecting the best of ourselves and others; Integrity in being faithful to who we say we are.

Work Environment and Hazards:

• Clinical office setting. Exposure Class I

Physical Demands:

• Occasional exposure to conditions which may be considered particularly disagreeable to sight, touch, sound, smell & tastes; May encounter fumes, orders, dusts, mists & gases, along with biohazards / hazards (mechanical, electrical, burns, chemicals, radiation, sharp objects, etc.); Occasionally subject to noise, infectious waste, diseases & conditions.

• Includes the need to be physically & mentally capable to perform nursing processes.

Work Contact Group:

• All services, medical staff, patients, visitors, and various regulatory and professional agencies.

Supervised By:

• Director, Unit Manager, and Clinical Services/Nursing Administration.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature & level of work being performed by persons assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties so assigned.

Pay Range: $40.80 - $57.60

Pay is based on experience, skills, and education. Exempt positions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will be paid within the base salary equivalent of the stated hourly rates. The pay range may also vary within the stated range based on location.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran