RN Coordinator

Description

Considering a career in Home Infusion Nursing?

Join our team and experience the rewarding opportunity to deliver one-on-one, holistic care to your patients. As a Home Infusion RN with UNC Health, you'll provide high-quality, compassionate care that truly makes a difference.

We are looking for RNs Who:

• Have strong communication, critical thinking, and time management skills.

• Have Home Health or Home Infusion experience

• Are skilled at delivering personalized care based on each patient's unique needs and environment

• Are able to travel between other UNC hospitals

If you're ready to bring your expertise into a role that offers meaningful patient connections, apply today and become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.

Summary:

The RN Coordinator provides patient care coordination for home health patients. Educates patients, physicians and staff. Facilitates continuity of care of patients from hospital to home. Participates on an interdisciplinary team and collaborates with physicians and staff to establish and implement home care needs. This is an Inpatient role located primarily at UNC Medical Center with some travel to other UNC hospitals.

Responsibilities:

Patient Coordination & Care Navigation

• Serve as primary clinical point of contact for patients referred to infusion therapy.

• Conduct initial patient outreach to explain the infusion process, expectations, and care timeline.

• Asses patient needs, potential barriers to care and coordinate appropriate resources

• Ensure patients understand therapy requirements, pre-infusion instructions, and follow up care.

• Work closely with intake team to assist in facilitating a smooth transition between inpatient and home infusion services.

Clinical Assessment & Triage

• Work closely with Case Managers and medical team to determine infusion readiness.

• Identify issues that may delay therapy ( e.g., abnormal labs, missing orders, medication clarification, caregiver support)

• Communicate findings with prescribers, pharmacists, and the infusion team promptly.

• Provide clinical judgement to escalate complex patients to Clinical leadership.

Referral Management

• Monitor incoming infusion referrals for completeness and appropriateness.

• Ensure required documentation (orders and/or Home Infusion referral), insurance verification, and authorization is completed.

• Prioritize referrals based on acuity, therapy type, and scheduling capacity.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

• Partner closely with pharmacists, infusion RNs, scheduling, and care teams.

• Participate in daily/weekly interdisciplinary huddles to review patient flow and barriers.

• Communicates therapy changes, delays, or clinical concerns to team members in real time.

• Support escalation of operational or clinical issues affecting patient throughput.

Patient Education & Support

• Provide disease-specific and medication-specific education related to infusion therapies

• Ability to provide coverage of infusion referrals at other UNC facilities.

• Ensure patients receive and understand teaching on side effects, symptom monitoring and when to seek help.

• Provide psychosocial and emotional support, referring to social work as needed.

• Document clinical education in EMR for TJC compliance.

Other Information

Other information:

Education Requirements:

? Graduation from a state-accredited school of professional nursing. BSN preferred.

? If hired after October 1, 2015 must be enrolled in an accredited program within four years of employment, and obtain a Bachelor's degree with a major in Nursing or a Master's degree with a major in Nursing within seven years of employment date.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

? Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.

Professional Experience Requirements:

? Two (2) years of home health, public health or other health related experience.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Job Details

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

Organization Unit: UNC Homecare Infusion Nursing

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range: $35.52 - $51.05 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.