OP Nurse Coordinator I - Colorectal Surgery Clinic

Upmc Passavant; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 39,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

UPMC Passavant in Pittsburgh is hiring a full-time Registered Nurse to support our Colorectal Surgery Clinic. This outpatient role focuses on direct patient care, coordination, and participation in the care team.

Schedule is Monday to Friday, 7:30am–4:30pm, on-site with no evenings or weekends. Responsibilities include patient care, stocking, ordering supplies, and registration. The nurse will advocate for patients and collaborate with physicians, MAs, and office staff.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years nursing experience.
• Epic experience preferred.
• Outpatient office experience preferred.
• BSN preferred.
• Current RN licensure in practicing state; CPR/BLS as required.

Responsibilities

• Participates in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment.
• Formulates goals and a plan of care with patient as partner.
• Triages patient situations and coordinates care with physician.
• Accounts for outpatient treatment follow up and maintains patient caseload.
• Facilitates services outside the facility and coordinates homecare where needed.
• Supports quality improvement and regulatory readiness.

Skills

Nursing experience

CPR/BLS

Outpatient care

Education

BSN preferred

RN licensure

Tools

Epic

Job description

Job ID: 8333174586
Status: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Shift: Day Job
Work Arrangement: On-site
Facility: UPMC Passavant
Department: PAS-Colorectal Surg Clin
Location: 9100 Babcock Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA
Union Position: No
Salary Range: $ 27.99-48.0 USD
UPMC Passavant is hiring a full time Registered Nurse to support our Colorectal Surgery Clinic located within UPMC Passavant.
Schedule: M-F 7:30am – 4:30pm NO evenings, weekends or on call required
The main responsibilities of this role include direct patient care, stocking unit, ordering supplies, registration etc:

Purpose

The Outpatient Nurse Coordinator is a Registered Nurse is a member of the care delivery team. The Outpatient Nurse Coordinator is responsible for the care of the patient in a global view, accountable for multiple aspects of the patient care package even when patient contact is minimized. The Outpatient Nurse Coordinator uses independent judgment and continued communication with the patient, family, physician and community resources to assist the patient in attaining a measure of outpatient health. The Outpatient Nurse Coordinator a commitment to the community and to the nursing profession.

Responsibilities

• Participates in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment . Provides oversight and supervision to the overall practice environment, assisting all other disciplines and directing clinical/administrative activity as need arises. Demonstrates leadership capabilities with new nursing staff, patient information coordinators, medical assistants and office assistant staff in the daily management of the patient process.
• Formulates goals and a plan of care for patients that involves the patient as partner and considers the individual needs of the patient in a holistic manner.
• Triages patient situations and coordinates care with physician. Assist physician with all aspects of patient care including assessment, evaluation and education. Provides care for patients in a global, holistic method-responsibility for the patient is viewed in a continual manner, not simply at the time of office/procedural visit.
• Accountable for outpatient treatment follow up necessary for patient to maintain health in between outpatient visits. Serves as primary nursing resource to patient caseload.
• Facilitates necessary services outside of the healthcare facility, interacts with homecare and other support services.
• Assists the departmental manager (Practice Coordinator or Practice Manager) in patient care planning, operations and innovations.
• Actively participates in department or practice-specific quality improvement efforts. Identifies opportunity for quality improvement to colleagues and management. Takes personal responsibility in improving patient satisfaction with the quality of care and service. Utilizes research and evidence-based practice to support improvement in clinical care: identifies research issues or articles related to clinical specialty or areas of interest Actively assists and participates in all preparation and maintenance activities for regulatory agency reviews and quality audits.

Becomes the patient advocate and voice to the physicians and physician extenders within the practice.

Qualifications

The individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and/or interact appropriately to the ages of the patients served by his/her assigned unit as specified below.

They must also demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patients status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patients requirements relative to his/her age‑specific needs and to provide the care needs as described in the department policy and procedures.

Minimum 3 Years Nursing Experience

Epic experience preferred

Outpatient Office Experience Preferred

BSN preferred.

Licensure, Certifications, And Clearances

Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse in practicing state. CPR CertificationUPMC approved national certification preferred.CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Registered Nurse (RN)
• Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran