RN Clinical Coordinator Hospital at Home-Northwestern Memorial Hospital

The RN Clinical Coordinator Hospital at Home AMC reflects the mission vision and values of NM adheres to the organizations Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program and complies with all relevant policies procedures guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

Seeking flexible team members who will be an integral part of shaping and developing our innovative Hospital at Home program coordinating and caring for our patients in their most comfortable environment. Our Clinical Coordinator opening is fulltime 36 hours/week 12hour shifts with weekend rotation and some field RN coverage included in the schedule. Northwestern Memorial Hospital campus fleet vehicle provided for field coverage. 

This position is an experienced Registered Nurse who in addition to providing direct patient care is accountable for facilitating an interdisciplinary approach to patient care patient flow staffing resource utilization and problem solving on a given shift.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitates unit operations on a shift basis according to policy procedure and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinates staffing assignments on a shift basis to achieve high quality and cost effective care.
• Directs patient care provided by staff nurses and support personnel for a specific shift.
• Champions new initiatives and helps in unit/departmental or hospital wide committees/task forces.
• Communicates directly with patients and significant others about nursing care.
• Implements appropriate action plans to provide safe quality and efficient care.
• Assures safety and security of patients significant others and staff.
• Provides direct patient care. Performs ongoing assessment of assigned patients and their significant others biopsychosocial and learning needs.
• Implements appropriate actions to respond to needs of patients and their significant others.
• Monitors and documents the patients response to therapeutic interventions and progress toward outcomes.
• Assures that quality improvement activities are completed for the assigned shift.
• Assesses and intervenes in critical situations involving patients staff and visitors and consults with manager or administrator for guidance as needed.
• Ensures that the environment is clean attractive safe and free from hazards for patients staff and visitors in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Analyzes patterns of daily activities and recommends operational/program changes as needed.
• Anticipates staffing needs for subsequent shifts and makes necessary arrangements for coverage.
• Facilitates effective interdepartmental communication of incidents with appropriate personnel (manager administrator medical staff etc.. Identifies and communicates key issues and trends to managers and makes recommendations for improvement on an ongoing basis.
• Provides input to manager on budgetary issues particularly staffing and cost containment strategies.
• Establishes relationships across departments to optimize patient care.
• Assesses and communicates staff development needs to manager.
• Orients staff to Clinical Coordinator and Charge role.
• Serves as a resource for staff.

Additional Functions:      

Triage

• Acts as the central contact person in coordinating high level patient placement and patient access for the Hospital at Home system.
• Supports the facilitation of admissions and discharges as needed by the team.
• Serves as key point person for team reporting and clinical operation troubleshooting.
• Anticipates/proactively responds to capacity demands as necessary.

Case Management

• Patient identification and selection: Focuses on identifying patients who would benefit from case management services.
• Development of the care coordination plan: Develops a plan and prioritizes the patients needs as well as determines the type of services and resources that are available to address the desired outcomes.

Discharge Planning

• Facilitates safe effective and efficient discharge plans in collaboration with the patient the family caregivers the attending and/or primary care physician nursing staff other appropriate clinical staff third party payers and/or communitybased care coordinators or other appropriate outside agencies.

Utilization Management

• Provides expert guidance to the medical nursing and rehab staff as well as other Hospital departments regarding Hospital criteria insurance regulations care coordination efforts and discharge planning activities.
• Performs admission and concurrent utilization management using Hospital approved criteria as a guide for determination of appropriate level of care.
• Completes accurate insurance utilization reviews and obtains third party payer approval of services needed for posthospital care as needed.

Quality /Performance Improvement

• Participates in performance improvement measurements and initiatives including identification of variances/delays.
• Participates in interdepartmental committees focus groups task forces or other special projects as requested.
• Identifies quality of care issues; analyzes documents and reports appropriately in accordance with agency and departmental policies and procedures.

Other Duties

• Participates in special projects such as audits policy and program development and other such duties as directed.
• Participates and/or carries out other duties as assigned or requested.

Qualifications :

Required:

• Baccalaureate degree from an accredited school of nursing or equivalent experience as approved by the Patient Care Director.  (Minimum two years clinical experience in area of clinical specialty).
• Registered Nurse in the state of Illinois
• Two or more years in clinical specialty
• CPR Basic Life Support

Preferred:

• Certification in specialty clinical area nursing or case management
• Prior experience in the following areas:
  •  General acute care hospital experience
  •  Healthcare reimbursement including utilization review
  •  Quality improvement
  •  Enhanced models of health care delivery
  •  Previous acute care hospital care coordination/discharge planning

Additional Information :

Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age sex race color religion national origin gender identity veteran status disability sexual orientation or any other protected status.

If we offer you a job we will perform a background check that includes a review of any criminal convictions. A conviction does not disqualify you from employment at Northwestern Medicine. We consider this on a casebycase basis and follow all state and federal guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime