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Munson Healthcare · 1 month ago

Patient Care Coordinator - C3 (Pediatrics/Women's/Children's Services) - FT/Night

Traverse City, MI

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

2+ years exp

Munson Healthcare is northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, serving over half a million residents across 29 counties. The Patient Care Coordinator role involves overseeing patient care in a pediatric unit, ensuring quality nursing practices, and supporting staff in their professional development.

Hospital & Health Care

Responsibilities

Maintains and evaluates patient and staff data collection systems and processes to support the practice of nursing and delivery of patient care within their defined areas/s of responsibility

Evaluates assessment practices to assure timely, reliable, valid and comprehensive data collection

Fosters and evaluates an environment that empowers and supports staff, including the professional nurse in analysis of assessment data and in decisions to determine relevant diagnoses

Maintains and evaluates processes that promote RBC and desired patient-centered outcomes that are culturally sensitive and inclusive of patient/family needs according to accepted standards of clinical nursing practice

Promotes the integration of clinical and human resource data to support decision-making, which maximizes resource utilization

Facilitates and empowers registered nurses to assume accountability for patient outcomes in their area of responsibility

Supports organizational and RBC Unit Action Council plans related to the delivery of unit based nursing services and patient care

Oversees and assists with evaluation of plan of care with the patient, family and other health care providers that prescribe interventions to attain expected outcomes

Facilitates patient flow on unit as it relates to admissions and discharges

Assures the plan of care is safe, timely and appropriate

Coordinates resources for maximum utilization of daily systems

Evaluates patient care in relation to expected outcomes

Participates in the evaluation of programs, processes and desired patient-centered outcomes

Embraces and supports Relationship Based Care and the Performance Improvement philosophy of Munson Medical Center

Assists with evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice

Provides leadership in establishing a culture of safety

Supports a shared governance philosophy

Assists manager/director to evaluate staff performance based on professional practice standards, relevant statues and regulations, and organizational criteria, and RBC philosophy

Assists manager / director through participation in the Annual Discussion process of same shift staff as well as providing assistance and feedback with the corrective action process as needed by unit

Mentors and coaches staff to attain optimal performance

Seeks additional knowledge and skills appropriate to the practice setting by participating in educational programs and activities, conferences, workshops and self-directed learning

Supports staff in meeting their educational needs

Supports and assists in maintaining a healthy learning environment for staff and students if applicable

Fosters a professional environment

Role models collaborative relationships between nursing, medicine and other disciplines

Supports a climate of effective communication by role modeling Commitment to Co-workers

Bases actions and decisions on ethical principles

Utilizes the Code of Ethics for Nurses to guide practice

Fosters a non-discriminatory climate in which care is delivered in a manner sensitive to sociocultural diversity

Collaborates with staff, providers and other disciplines and departments for provision of seamless delivery of services

Utilizes current research findings and current practice guidelines to strengthen patient care

Supports and facilitates the involvement of nursing staff in evaluation and integration of research into the delivery of nursing care

Assigns patient care consistent with organizational policies, primary nursing model of care, procedures, legal, and regulatory requirements, according to the knowledge and skills of the designated caregiver as per unit standards

Maximizes utilization of scarce resources

Qualification

Registered Nurse LicenseBaccalaureate Degree in NursingPediatric Care ExperienceCharge Nurse ExperienceEthical Decision MakingCollaborationLeadershipCommunication

Required

Current license as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan

Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience

Actively pursuing a Baccalaureate degree in Nursing required for those hired into the role prior to October 1, 2018

A BSN is required for those hired into the role after October 1, 2018

Begin BSN within two years of October 1, 2011

Complete BSN degree by October 1, 2018

Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella

MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption