Job Overview

Employment Type:

Part time

Shift:

Description:

Consistent with the American Nurses Association Scope and Standards of Practice (2004), the Patient Care Coordinator is a professional nurse and a member of the Mercy Medical Center healthcare team and is accountable for the delivery of holistic, compassionate, individualized, and effective patient care demonstrated by the use of the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation. In addition, the Patient Care Coordinator is responsible for behaviors consistent with the professional nursing role, appropriate to their education and experience, including activities related to quality of care, performance appraisal, education, collegiality, ethics, collaboration, research and evidence-based practice, and resource utilization. The Patient Care Coordinator facilitates interdisciplinary team planning to maximize patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care and serves as a clinical resource for the defined patient population. The Patient Care Coordinator assumes accountability for the nursing department in the absence of the Director/Supervisor.

The Patient Care Coordinator will complete and maintain competencies to provide care within the assigned unit:

• Core competencies for all RNs

• Basic and advanced competencies for the specified department

• Core competencies for Patient Care Coordinators

  • Conflict mediation

  • Cost containment

  • Delegation

  • Health system guidance

  • Incident reporting

  • Laboratory data interpretation

  • Physician support

  • Staff development

  • Staff supervision

  • Team work support

• The Patient Care Coordinator must be a registered nurse and must hold an active license to practice nursing in the state of Iowa. A baccalaureate degree in nursing and certification by a nationally recognized nursing organization is preferred and strongly encouraged.

• An applicant must have a minimum of an associate’s degree in nursing.

• The registered professional nurse must continuously seek opportunities to enhance their own professional nursing practice. Membership in an appropriate professional nursing organization is recommended and previous leadership experience including charge experience, community leadership, group facilitation, committee or project involvement or an active role in the change process is necessary.

• The job requires a high degree of interpersonal skills to deal with a range of complicated problem situations.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.