RN - Registered Nurse Coordinator - Orthopedics - Per Diem

Geisinger • Wilkes-Barre, PA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse Coordinator serves in an expanded nursing role as part of an interdisciplinary team, promoting preventive patient care, providing screening services, and coordinating disease management. The role also provides primary clinical support to providers, patients, and families to assist with diagnosis and treatment. The coordinator assists the clinic team with triage of inbox messages as needed and manages patient interactions with the clinic by identifying needs, intervention pathways, clinical guidelines, and diagnostic tests to develop individualized care plans.

The position assesses the healthcare, educational, and psychosocial needs of patients and families; coordinates communication and care across the healthcare team; provides education and disease-management resources; and implements interventions based on risk stratification and evidence-based guidelines. It also supports post-discharge transitions of care, maintains documentation and data, and performs clinical duties such as specimen collection, IV management, and medication and vaccine administration within provider direction and scope of practice.

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. The employee must meet job-specific obligations and comply with organizational policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
• At least 5 years of clinical experience.
• Basic Life Support certification.
• Active Registered Nurse license in Pennsylvania.
• Clinical skills, communication, computer literacy, health information documentation, interpersonal communication, patient assessment and care, and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients’ and families’ healthcare, educational, and psychosocial needs and involve them in establishing treatment plans based on realistic goals and interventions.
• Investigate healthcare options and facilitate communication among patients, primary care providers, and other healthcare team members to address barriers and identify treatment interventions.
• Educate patients, families, and healthcare team members about Care Coordination, its processes, disease and case management programs, and outcomes using age-appropriate learning principles.
• Serve as a disease-management resource for patients, families, and healthcare team members.
• Implement clinical interventions based on risk stratification and evidence-based clinical guidelines.
• Collaborate with primary care providers to support evidence-based guideline adherence and best practices, including initiating or adjusting therapies as directed and providing follow-up and monitoring.
• Coordinate laboratory and diagnostic testing for disease management programs.
• Maintain required EPIC documentation for disease management activities and collect and enter data and patient information according to department standards.
• Participate in professional and nursing continuing education and pursue professional development opportunities.
• Review literature on effective teaching, learning, and disease-management strategies and incorporate appropriate techniques into practice.
• Maintain active involvement in post-discharge Transitions of Care coordination.
• Assist leadership with the design, implementation, and evaluation of care coordination programs.
• Collect and prepare laboratory specimens and complete associated paperwork accurately and efficiently.
• Insert, monitor, regulate, and discontinue IVs as required by the provider and within scope of practice.
• Administer medications and vaccines, including intradermal administration and skin testing, under provider direction and within scope of practice.
• Assist the clinic team with triage of inbox messages as needed and coordinate patient interactions with the clinic.

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits for full-time and part-time positions from day one, including vision and dental coverage and domestic partner benefits.
• A collaborative, cooperative, and collegial work atmosphere.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior