Registered Nurse Care Coordinator (RN) - Cardiology Clinic (Oak Lawn)

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation • Oak Lawn, IL

33d • Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse Care Coordinator (RN) for the Cardiology Clinic plays a crucial role in ensuring continuity of care for patients. This position involves developing strong relationships with patients and their multidisciplinary teams to facilitate and navigate subsequent treatment and follow-up. The RN will conduct nursing assessments to identify individual patient needs, collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to develop interdisciplinary care plans, and provide education, address psychosocial needs, advocate for patients, and identify barriers to care. The role also involves navigating patients through diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up across the care continuum, providing expert clinical advice, and coordinating timely, seamless, evidence-based care to achieve optimal patient outcomes. Additionally, the RN will evaluate and design patient education materials, provide education and outreach programs, and assist leadership in developing program vision, goals, and objectives. This role also contributes to the development and maintenance of quality programs focused on best practice patient care outcomes, quality of life, and enhanced patient loyalty. The incumbent must demonstrate knowledge and skills appropriate for the age of the patients served, including understanding growth and development principles and assessing data reflective of patient status.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
• Typically requires 5 years of experience in clinical nursing that includes experience in nursing assessment, care plan development and in educating patients.
• Working knowledge of the components of quality and acute patient care needs specifically related to the area in which care will be performed.
• Maintains clinical expertise to effectively manage physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual needs of patients throughout the care continuum.
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal communication skills necessary to negotiate with families, patient, physicians and third party payers.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with physicians and other professionals in a direct and positive manner.
• Clear oral communications and hearing acuity required for receiving instructions and converse on standard telephone.
• Functional speech and hearing to allow for effective communication of instructions and conversation over the telephone.

Responsibilities

• Provides continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings.
• Develops a relationship with patient and their multidisciplinary team to facilitate and/or navigate through subsequent treatment and follow-up to reflect continuity of care.
• Completes a nursing assessment to identify the patients individualized needs and collaborates with multidisciplinary team and other departments to develop an interdisciplinary plan of care.
• Supports the patient and family by providing education, addressing psychosocial needs, advocating, providing continuity of care and identifying barriers to care.
• Navigates through the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the patient throughout the continuum of care.
• Provides expert clinical advice to the multidisciplinary team in designing collaborative teaching plans/programs and in planning/providing patient/family education and discharge planning including wellness and health maintenance within designated specialty.
• Coordinates timely, seamless, evidenced based care across the care continuum resulting in best patient outcomes.
• Evaluates, selects or designs patient education materials on specific disease site programs.
• Provides education and outreach programs to patients, Aurora staff and to members of the community.
• Assists leadership in developing program vision, goals and objectives.
• Assists in the development, implementation and maintenance of quality programs that include best practice patient care outcomes including quality of life, and enhanced patient loyalty.
• Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
• Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures.

Benefits

• Comprehensive suite of Total Rewards
• Benefits and well-being programs
• Competitive compensation
• Generous retirement offerings
• Programs that invest in your career development
• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level