RN Care Coordinator

Company Description

Why You Should Work For Us:

HealthCare Support Staffing, Inc. (HSS), is a proven industry-leading national healthcare recruiting and staffing firm. HSS has a proven history of placing talented healthcare professionals in clinical and non-clinical positions with some of the largest and most prestigious healthcare facilities including: Fortune 100 Health Plans, Mail Order Pharmacies, Medical Billing Centers, Hospitals, Laboratories, Surgery Centers, Private Practices, and many other healthcare facilities throughout the United States. HealthCare Support Staffing maintains strong relationships with top providers in healthcare and can assure healthcare professionals they will receive fast access to great career opportunities that best fit their expertise. Connect with one of our Professional Recruiting Consultants today to see how a conversation can turn into a long-lasting and rewarding career!

Job Description

• RN will be doing Surgical teaching and care coordination with Patients.

• Provides a deliberate patient and family centered partnership with the healthcare team that facilitates a seamless patient experience between the Inpatient and Outpatient settings. 
• Works to maximize the patient’s health outcomes and the patient experience by identifying patient and family needs, completing pre-visit planning, supporting the clinic visit and providing closure to the clinic visits. 
• Works to develop and support a coordinated plan of care between visits to promote a smooth transition for patients and family across the healthcare continuum that instills a sense of trust and patient advocacy.

Core Accountabilities and Weighting:

• Coordinates care across the health care continuum within designated sub-specialty population(s). Serves as single point of contact by facilitating and overseeing transitions in care within and between care settings, providers, and services.

• Manages patient care in-between clinic visits including communication with primary and referring providers.
• Promotes safe, satisfying patient centered care as defined by the patient and family centered care model.
• Facilitates proactive disease management/preventative health care using evidenced based practice.
• Completes visit closure and summarizes visit.
• Completes pre-visit planning to optimize patient visit. Ensures that appropriate authorization for
• procedures/devices and medications have been obtained prior to services needed
• Demonstrates ability to provide care or service adjusting approaches to reflect developmental level of population served. (as applicable)
• Performs other duties including Performance Goals developed by manager and employee and reported in the employee’s Performance Review as part of UMPhysicians’ Performance Management tools

Qualifications

• Required experience with Chemotherapy and cancer infusions.
  
• Experienced with treatment plans.
• Prefer Gynecologic Cancer experience but not mandatory
• MN RN License
• 3 years of clinical experience – preferably some clinic setting experience
• Nursing assessment and evaluation skills and abilities.
• Knowledge of standards and clinical practice for area of care coordination
• EMR experience
• Ability to work within a team and advocate for patient and family needs
• Computer skills
• Patient education and pro-active disease management experience.
• Excellent assessment and care coordination skills.
• Strong customer focus to accommodate patients.

Additional Information

Shift: Monday - Friday/ Day shift

Full time position

Pay rate: TBD

Contract: 3 months +