RN - Registered Nurse Coordinator - Orthopedics - Per Diem

Geisinger•Wilkes-Barre, PA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse Coordinator serves in an expanded nursing role within an interdisciplinary team, promoting preventive patient care, offering screening services, and coordinating disease management. The role also provides clinical support to providers, patients, and families to assist with diagnosis and treatment. The coordinator helps triage clinic inbox messages and manages patient interactions with the clinic by identifying needs, intervention pathways, clinical guidelines, and diagnostic tests to develop individualized plans of care. The position assesses patient and family healthcare, educational, and psychosocial needs; supports shared treatment planning; facilitates communication and access to care; and educates patients, families, and healthcare team members about care coordination and disease management. It implements evidence-based interventions, coordinates testing and follow-up, maintains documentation and data in EPIC, and supports post-discharge transitions of care. Additional clinical duties include collecting laboratory specimens, managing IVs, and administering medications and vaccines within provider direction and scope of practice. Work is typically performed in a clinical environment.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

Assess the healthcare, educational, and psychosocial needs of patients and families and involve them in establishing treatment plans with realistic goals and interventions.
Investigate healthcare options and facilitate communication among patients, primary care providers, and other healthcare team members to eliminate 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 resource to patients, families, and healthcare team members regarding disease management.
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, initiating and adjusting therapies as directed and providing follow-up and monitoring.
Coordinate laboratory and diagnostic tests for disease management programs.
Maintain required documentation in EPIC and collect and enter data and patient information according to department standards.
Attend and participate in nursing and professional continuing education and pursue professional development opportunities.
Review current 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 in support of organizational goals and strategies.
Collect and prepare laboratory specimens and complete associated paperwork to expedite laboratory studies 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 medications and skin testing, under provider direction and within scope of practice.
Comply with job-specific obligations and organizational policies and procedures.