RN CLINIC coordinator

PACE Southeast Michigan; Clinton Charter Township (MI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

PACE Southeast Michigan seeks a Clinic Registered Nurse Coordinator to lead and monitor the clinic team, including LPNs, MAs, and scheduling staff. The role emphasizes nursing process, patient education, and promoting autonomy for participants and families within the clinic setting.

The position requires coordinating care, ensuring documentation quality, and collaborating across interdisciplinary teams to optimize outcomes and transitions of care.

Qualifications

• Must lead and direct staff in delivering care.
• Immunizations up-to-date and medically cleared.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Ability to standardize processes for quality indicators and use technology to document data.
• Experience with frail elderly population and management preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Physician and Nurse Practitioner to ensure optimal clinical flow.
• Daily workflow management and delegation of tasks to LPN, MA and Scheduling Clerk.
• Triaging and assessment of Participants and providing education resources.
• Supervise LPN and MAs to ensure competency.
• Collaborate with Manager to ensure adherence to quality initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Staff supervision

Communication skills

Quality improvement

Clinical documentation

Education

BSN preferred

Job description

SUMMARY:

The Clinic Registered Nurse Coordinator serves in the role of Clinical Coordinator responsible for ensuring the functions optimally by appropriately delegating and monitoring the activities of the Licensed Practical Nurse, Medical Assistant and Scheduling Clerks. Utilizes a systematic approach to nursing practice which incorporates all aspects of the nursing process including, assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of PACE Participants. The Clinic RN Coordinator demonstrates a direct relationship between nursing interventions and participant outcomes, demonstrates clinical competence and engages in effective patient teaching for acute and chronic illnesses. The focus of care is one that enhances functional capacity, encourages autonomy in all aspects of care, and encourages Participant, Caregiver and Family involvement in achieving health care goals.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS:

• Collaboration with the Physician and Nurse Practitioner to ensure optimal clinical flow.
• Daily workflow of clinical activities and delegation of task to the clinic Licensed Practical Nurse, Medical Assistant and Scheduling Clerk.
• Triaging and assessment of Participants in the clinic setting and providing education resources.
• Supervises the LPN and Medical Assistants to ensure competency of clinical skills and task.
• Collaborates with Manager to ensure adherence to quality initiatives in the clinic setting and organizational.
• Ensures that clinical activities are documented in the Participants medical record by clinic staff daily.
• Ensures that documentation of clinical activities are evidence-based and adheres to standards set by quality and professional standards.
• Collaborates with RN Case Managers regarding care delivered to Participants in the clinic and any transitions of care, through verbal and electronic communication.
• Collaborates with all Interdisciplinary Team members regarding care delivered to Participants in the clinic and any transitions of care, through verbal and electronic communication.
• Collaborates with Nurse Educators regarding any assessed educational needs of staff and new hire competency skills compliance.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• BSN preferred.
• At least one year working with the frail elderly population. Five years of management experience preferred.
• Must have the ability to lead and direct staff in the delivery of care.
• Must be medically cleared for communicable diseases and have all immunizations up-to-date before engaging in direct participant contact.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills necessary; must have strong interpersonal skills.
• Must have the ability to understand and standardize process related to quality indicators and utilize technology to document and present data.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Ability to embody our culture traits of caring, belonging, honest, evolving, fun, excelling, and grateful. Must be flexible, with imagination and group leadership skills.
• Possible exposure to communicable disease.
• Position requires the ability to drive between locations on a daily basis as needed