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

American Addiction Centers • Oak Lawn, IL

35d • $41 - $62 • Onsite

About The Position

This part-time Registered Nurse Care Coordinator position in the Cardiology Clinic supports cardiologists with inpatient rounding, schedule coordination/assignments, and inpatient procedure coordination. The role involves providing continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings, developing relationships with patients and their multidisciplinary teams, and navigating patients through diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. The nurse will conduct nursing assessments, collaborate on interdisciplinary care plans, provide education, address psychosocial needs, and advocate for patients. This role also involves coordinating timely, evidence-based care across the continuum, evaluating and designing patient education materials, and providing education and outreach programs. Additionally, the position assists leadership in developing program vision and quality initiatives, ensuring best practice patient care outcomes, quality of life, and enhanced patient loyalty. The nurse must demonstrate knowledge and skills appropriate for the age of the patients served, including understanding growth and development principles.

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

• Paid Time Off programs
• medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• 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