Clinical Coord, RN

Job Summary

In collaboration with the Service Line Director and unit Manager, the RN Clinical Coordinator is responsible for the daily departmental operations. Provides shift supervision and day to day management of clinical nursing practice, patient care delivery, human, fiscal and other resources, development of personnel, compliance with regulatory and professional standards, issue resolution and fostering interdisciplinary collaborative relationships within the Department and the organization as a whole.

Coordinates and maintains balanced schedules of hospital nursing staff according to patient acuity. As a resource, provides clinical expertise to clinical staff as well as acts as a liaison between staff and family members. Consistently models excellence in patient care and service excellence and contributes to unit leadership at a high level of proficiency.

• Current BLS provider card
• National Certification in clinical area of expertise preferred

• Member in professional organization preferred

• Three (3) years current acute care nursing experience.
• One (1) year progressive charge nurse experience

• Excellent intradepartmental communication skills and interaction with patients and their families; hospital and medical staff.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Effective two way communication skills (listening and speaking); strong interpersonal skills with staff, physicians, patients and their significant others. to interpret data.
• Ability to work effectively with physicians and multidisciplinary teams toward achieving a common goal in accordance with established timelines.

• Continuous standing/walking and occasional/intermittent sitting.
• Continuous use of bilateral upper extremities in fine motor activities requiring fingering, grasping, and forward reaching between waist and shoulder level to handle/operate medical equipment/devices.
• Frequent reaching above shoulder level and overhead.
• Frequent forward bending, twisting, squatting and kneeling; occasional climbing.
• Occasional repositioning and transferring patients weighing up to 200 pounds between bed, chair, and gurney.
• Occasional lifting and carrying equipment weighing up to 25 pounds.
• Occasional/intermittent pushing of gurneys, wheelchairs, bed and other medical equipment over tiled and carpeted surfaces.
• Continuous use of near vision to read medical equipment such as monitoring devices and reading documents and computer screens; hearing and verbal communication to interact with patients, co-workers, and other customers.