RN Clinical Coordinator - Outpatient Oncology @ North Fulton

Wellstar Health System, Inc.; Marietta (GA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellstar Health System in Georgia is seeking a Clinical Coordinator Registered Nurse who leads department activities, supports standards of practice, and ensures high-quality patient care. This role partners with the Nurse Manager to supervise staff, promote safety, and maintain regulatory compliance.

The Coordinator will work to uphold the nursing practice standards and collaborate with physicians and care teams.

Qualifications

• All nurses must be licensed.

Responsibilities

• Assure supplies and appropriate staff for each case/procedure.
• Manage preference cards with surgeons to ensure supplies and equipment are available.
• Ensure understanding and compliance with standards, policies, and procedures.
• Support training and learning opportunities for staff in collaboration with educators and managers.
• Participate in performance improvement initiatives to enhance quality patient care and work processes.

Job description

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives.

Work Shift

Location: 4500 Hospital Blvd, Suite 300, Roswell, GA 30076

Shift/Schedule: 8:30am-5pm M-Thu, 8:30am-3pm on Friday

Job Summary:
The Clinical Coordinator Registered Nurse is a registered professional nurse who functions under the Nurse Manager or Assistant Nurse Manager and is responsible for providing leadership and assistance in facilitating activities/services for a department.
The Coordinator has shared responsibility for supporting and adhering to standards of practices, system, and department policies and procedures, and ensuring quality patient care. Other responsibilities include assisting with ensuring compliance with regulatory and legal requirements by all team members, visitors and providers. Key responsibilities of the Coor Clinical RN include ensure satisfaction, appropriate reporting, coordination of departmental functions, process improvement, vendor relations, equipment and supplies, service recovery, employee trust and engagement, and staff education.
The Coordinator will work in collaboration with the manager to maintain trust, retention, and recruitment. The Coordinator Clinical RN is a subject matter expert to all levels of nursing staff and nursing management for facility, clinical, and surgical practices. He/she fosters positive communication and collaboration practices for physicians and staff. The Coordinator Clinical RN is responsible for Performance Improvement and quality assurance aspects of functional area.
It is expected that all nurses are licensed, knowledgeable and uphold the practice of nursing as outlined by the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act and implements the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards put forth by the American Nurses Association. As a member of the patient services team, it is expected that the individual upholds the voice of the patient, system policies and procedures while supporting service excellence goals

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Assures that supplies and appropriate staff members are available for each case/procedure for scheduled procedures

• Works with surgeons and staff to manage preference cards so that supplies, instruments, and equipment are available for each case.
• Works with materials management and vendors to assure appropriate supplies, instruments, and equipment are available.
• Works with department leaders, vendors, and surgeons on all capital equipment requests

Implement standards of practice, system, and department policies and procedures

• Review and implement department policies and procedures. As a subject matter expert, recommend or propose changes.
• Ensure understanding and compliance with standards and policies.

Ensure compliance with regulatory and legal requirements by all department personnel

• Hold accountable the individuals in the practice areas to practice and policies and ...
• Maintain level of knowledge of current compliance requirements and pending change through professional education and awareness.
• Serve as subject matter expert in functional area for all levels of staff and for education and information sharing.
• Fosters open communication and collaborative practices between staff, other departments, and physicians/care providers.

Partner with Management and Educators to provide appropriate training and learning opportunities for staff

• Promotes safe environment for staff and patients.
• Promotes professional nursing practice through education based on evidence based practice and ethical responsibility.
• Manages and monitors the onboarding of new team members in collaboration with unit based educators and managers.

Promotes and actively participates in performance improvement initiatives designed to enhance quality patient care and improve work processes and efficiencies

• Partner with managers and staff to ensure fiscal responsibility through individual accountability, identification, and implementation of cost containment activities, reduction or elimination of waste. Empowers shared decision by fostering teamwork, open communication, and inclusion of diverse thought.
• Research and present ideas on improvements in the areas of customer satisfaction, reporting and clinical services.
• Uses problem solving and communication skills to bring forth performance improvement ideas and opportunities.
• Uses established Performance Improvement criteria when addressing issues or recommending changes in practice, policies and procedures.

Exemplary Practice and Outcomes

• Performs the Nursing Process (assessment; diagnosis; identification of outcomes; planning; implementation and evaluation) in the performance of clinical care using evidence base practice, uses analytical/critical thinking and ensuring that care is individualized; coordinating care through effective partnerships recognizing that caring is central to achieve optimal patient care outcomes
• Provides relationship-based patient centered care that is consistent with population specific characteristics (e.g. age, gender, disease, etc) in a manner that adapts service delivery to reflect an understanding of cultural diversity
• Always partners with the patient and significant others (as appropriate) using such appropriate method for setting and purpose (e.g., bedside shift report; interdisciplinary rounds; just in time and planned patient teaching; keeping the patient and significant others updated and making the patients goals the focus of the plan of care.
• Practices using current clinical practice standards.

Teamwork and Collaboration

• Coordinates the delivery and documentation of safe quality patient care that promotes the professional care delivery model. This includes, but is not limited to diverse and inclusive interdisciplinary communication methods (interdisciplinary rounds, case review, etc); completion of timely documentation and promotion of a respectful, inclusive clinical environment
• Demonstrates teamwork and collaboration by practicing in a manner that is fiscally responsible and promotes the recruitment and retention of all healthcare team members.
• Participates and supports performance improvement inclusive of all stakeholders, research and research utilization to promote safe, quality patient care including initiating and/or leading such activities as well as, promoting an inter/intra-disciplinary process and actively supports/participates in Clinical Champion Forum at the Medical Group level. .

Professional Development and Initiative

• Completes all initial and ongoing professional competency assessment, required mandatory education, population specific education.
• Serves as a preceptor and/or or mentor for other professional nurses (and staff or students for all disciplines) to ensure that there is a current and future qualified workforce; modeling the professional practice of nursing and creating a healthy work environment

Resources and Support

• Proactively plans for the care of patients across the care continuum in the course of giving direct patient care.
• Participates in the develop