SANE Program Coordinator

Position

SANE Program Coordinator at Insight Health Systems

The SANE program coordinator’s primary responsibility is to implement and maintain a system of care for SANE patients and their families throughout the continuum of care. The coordinator works in collaboration with the ED nursing leader, ED medical director, and other members of the health care team and management staff.

The SANE coordinator’s secondary role is to assist in the emergency department when available.

* All duties listed below are essential unless noted otherwise*

• Demonstrates the ability to work collaboratively with local Rape Crisis personnel, law enforcement agencies, social work, and emergency department personnel.
• Performs forensic examinations and collection of evidence in accordance with state and professional organization guidelines.
• Demonstrates competence in the use of additional evidence collection tools such as colposcope, Bluemaxx light, toluidine blue, and photo documentation.
• Completes SANE documentation to include consents, discharge instructions, assessment, and interventions.
• Initiates appropriate referrals for follow‑up after care as needed.
• Performs quality assurance functions and other duties as assigned by the program coordinator.

• Recognizes the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient preference, values, and needs.
• Elicits and communicates patient values, preferences, and expressed needs.
• Provides patient‑centered care with sensitivity and respect for the diversity of human experience in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Engages patients or designated surrogates in active partnerships that promote health, safety and well‑being, and self‑care management.
• Addresses patient family education needs considering patient level of comprehension, style of learning from the point of entry through discharge.
• Navigates and collaborates with patient, family and healthcare team regarding the care provided and needed to ensure appropriate transition along the continuum.
• Evaluates patient’s response and interventions to ensure optimal patient care.

• Integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
• Base individualized care plan on patient values, clinical expertise, and evidence.

• Assesses, formulates nursing diagnosis, plans, and implements and continually evaluates effectiveness of the individualized written nursing care plan and delivery of nursing care for each patient assigned.
• Analyzes and prioritizes problems and makes sound judgments based on logic and/or critical thinking skills.

• Improves the safety and quality of healthcare systems by minimizing the risk of harm to patients and the healthcare team.
• Administers medications and executes regimens as authorized by the state licensure.
• Incorporates quality measures and data to understand individual and system performance.
• Applies use of technology and standardized practices that support safety and quality.
• Identifies strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others.
• Participates in unit‑based quality improvement, evidence‑based practice projects or research.
• Promotes and incorporates error prevention techniques.
• Reports safety concerns and events including near misses.

• Promotes and incorporates use of technology to communicate, manage information, mitigate errors, and support decision‑making.
• Navigates, plans patient care, and documents ongoing status, interventions, patient responses, and outcomes in accurate, timely manner in the electronic health record.
• Responds appropriately to clinical decision‑making supports and alerts.
• Advocates protecting the integrity of the healthcare record and the privacy of each patient.

• Interacts effectively with patient, families and with healthcare team to foster open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision‑making.
• Functions as the coordinator of the patient’s plan of care…