PACU Clinical Nurse Coordinator

TriStar Centennial Medical Center; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) match

Tuition assistance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Job summary

TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville is seeking a PACU Clinical Nurse Coordinator to lead post-anesthesia care, coordinating the shift and guiding the nursing team to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care. You will work with the management team to monitor outcomes and model the organization’s values.

The CNC will participate in admissions, staffing, training, and service-improvement initiatives, while upholding patient experience and clinical excellence.

Qualifications

• Must have Basic Cardiac Life Support within 30 days of start date.
• RN registered nurse with active license.
• Associate or Bachelor degree or RN diploma.
• Critical care nursing experience required.
• Leadership experience highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assists with admission and discharge to ensure throughput and high-quality care.
• Monitors, directs, and evaluates nursing care per policies.
• Collaborates with management to create teamwork and improve outcomes.
• Supports patient-first philosophy and engages in service recovery.
• Implements nursing strategies, rounds, and staff engagement initiatives.
• Provides recommendations for interviewing, training, evaluations, and disciplinary actions.
• Assists with staff scheduling and productivity management.
• Supports inventory control and equipment management.

Skills

Leadership

Critical care experience

Education

RN license

Associate/Bachelor degree or RN diploma

Job description

As a PACU Clinical Nurse Coordinator, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

Job Summary And Qualifications

The Clinical Nurse Coordinator (CNC) ensures and delivers high quality, patient-centered care and coordination of all functions in the unit/department during the designated shift. In collaboration with other members of the management team, the CNC directs, monitors, and evaluates nursing care in accordance with established policies/procedures, serves as a resource person for staff, and models a commitment to the organization’s vision/mission/values to support an unparalleled patient experience and clinical outcomes that contribute to overall departmental performance.

What you will do in this role:

• Assists with admission and discharge processes to ensure efficient throughput and high quality, patient-centered care.
• Participates in the ongoing assessment of the quality of patient care services provided in the unit, in collaboration with other members of the management team.
• Collaborates with subject matter experts and other managers to create an environment of teamwork that supports improved outcomes and service.
• Supports a patient-first philosophy and engages in service recovery when necessary.
• Supports the efforts of the facility to improve engagement by operationalizing current nursing strategies, including employee rounding, hourly rounds, and other initiatives.
• Provides recommendations related to interviewing, selecting, and training new staff. Recommends and implements courses of action, including training and development, conflict resolution, personnel policy compliance, completion of performance evaluations, and/or disciplinary actions to ensure a competitively better organization.
• Assists with staff scheduling. Manages all practical aspects of staff labor in accordance with patient care needs and established productivity guidelines.
• Supports proper inventory control and assists with managing supplies and equipment.

What qualifications you will need:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• (RN) Registered Nurse
• Associate Degree, or Bachelors Degree, or Registered Nurse Diploma
• Critical Care nursing experience required.
• Leadership experience highly preferred.

Benefits

TriStar Centennial Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn More About Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

TriStar Centennial Medical Center is a 740+ bed comprehensive facility. We offer medical and surgical programs. These include behavioral health and 24-hour emergency. These also include heart and vascular and imaging. These also include neurosciences, oncology, orthopedics, pediatrics, rehabilitation, sleep disorder, and women's services. We are an affiliate of TriStar Health. TriStar Centennial Medical Center is a 43-acre campus. We are home to TriStar Centennial Heart & Vascular Center. We are home to TriStar Centennial Women's Hospital. Our campus includes The Children's Hospital at TriStar Centennial, Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at TriStar Centennial Medical Center, TriStar Centennial Advanced Joint Replacement Institute and TriStar Centennial Parthenon Pavilion.

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We are interviewing candidates for our PACU Clinical Nurse Coordinator opening.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.