RN Coordinator - Santa Fe Specialty Palliative Care
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Registered Nurse Coordinators are tasked with providing safe and quality treatment to all patients, as well as assisting medical management teams to ensure the safe, effective, and productive treatment of patients at all times.
- Shift and hours
- Nights as needed · 5 days, 8-hour shifts 5 shifts · 40 hours a week
- Unit and setting
- Specialty Palliative Care · Palliative RN Coordinator - Santa Fe Specialty Palliative Care
- License
- RN licenseRN License in state of employment or compact
- Term
- Permanent Work Type: Full TimeFull Time
Do you qualify?
- License
- RN License in state of employment or compact Check your license
- Education
- Associate's Degree in Nursing
- Experience
- patient management, employee scheduling, and doctor coordination
- Also asks
- general knowledge of medical software and business office software applications
The role and schedule
- Precepting
- You would precept other nurses
- Charge
- lead manager when no other higher manager is present
- Day to day
- perform and coordinate clinical activities according to care plans Perform and/or coordinate clinical activities in accordance with patient care plans.
- Day to day
- admit patients, perform office and phone triage, verify documentation, and delegate patients Admit patients, performing office and phone triage, verifying documentation accuracy, and delegating patients to staff.
- Day to day
- track and assess patient conditions and assist in care plan adjustments Track and assess patient conditions and assist in the development and adjustment of care plans.
- Day to day
- educate patients and families on procedures, treatments, and symptom management Educate patients and families on procedures, treatment options, and symptom management.
- Day to day
- oversee patient schedules, evaluate priorities, direct staff, and adjust for condition changes Provide oversight of patient schedules, evaluating priorities, directing staff, and making adjustments when conditions change.
- Hours stated
- 5 Days - 8 Hours
- Weekends
- weekends as needed
- On call
- on-call on occasion
The workplace
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Questions to ask
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for holiday and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
On your path
Hospice is a specialty you move into. Med surg, oncology, or home health is the usual door in.
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Summary
Registered Nurse Coordinators are tasked with providing safe and quality treatment to all patients, as well as assisting medical management teams to ensure the safe, effective, and productive treatment of patients at all times. These coordinators serve as team leaders and are responsible for mentoring employees and teaching relevant skills on an as-needed basis, and they also serve as lead managers when no other higher manager is present. Communication skills are important in this position to work well with employees, patients, and families of patients, and they must be willing to work weekends or nights and be on-call on occasion.
Nurse coordinators should have general knowledge of medical software applications and business-oriented office software applications, and they must be able to work independently and troubleshoot problems in effective ways consistent with the standards of the American Health Association. They should also be able to multi-task and work well under pressure, and prior experience in patient management, employee-scheduling, and coordinating with doctors for treatment of patients is essential for nurse coordinators. Candidates for this position must keep all certifications up-to-date and in compliance with all laws pertaining to medicine.
Responsibilities
- Perform and/or coordinate clinical activities in accordance with patient care plans.
- Admit patients, performing office and phone triage, verifying documentation accuracy, and delegating patients to staff.
- Track and assess patient conditions and assist in the development and adjustment of care plans.
- Educate patients and families on procedures, treatment options, and symptom management.
- Provide oversight of patient schedules, evaluating priorities, directing staff, and making adjustments when conditions change.
Requirements
- Associate's Degree in Nursing
- RN License in state of employment or compact
- BLS
Work Schedule
5 Days - 8 Hours
Work Type
Full Time
What's around it?
Santa Fe, NMFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about the same as the US average
- Median rent
- $1,463/mo
- Household income
- $73,482/yr, all local households, not nurse pay