RN Clinical Coordinator - Surgical Stepdown Intensive Care/Post Cardiovascular (SSU/Post CV)

Lexington Medical Center-posted 3 months ago
Full-time • Mid Level
SC
5,001-10,000 employees
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Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer. Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship. The position provides operational shift oversight, delegates care to staff and facilitates timely patient admission, transfer and discharge. It involves ongoing leadership, support and guidance to all staff and presents a positive image and attitude. The role promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process and collaborates with other healthcare team members using a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems.

  • Establishes positive rapport with patient and family.
  • Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; provides education to patient, and family in a manner they can understand their condition, medications, and self-care skills.
  • Serves as patient/family advocate.
  • Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting accurately and timely; communicating actions, irregularities, and on-going needs.
  • Uses a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems.
  • Identifies, synthesizes, and interprets sources of data using reasonable clinical judgement to respond to dynamic situations in a timely and effective manner.
  • Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
  • Uses ethical decision making processes and advocates for acceptable patient outcomes.
  • Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments.
  • Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
  • Participates in process/performance improvement activities and initiatives utilizing evidence based practice to maintain and/or improve quality of care and safe patient care systems and processes.
  • Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
  • Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
  • Documents all patient care activities accurately and timely.
  • Provides safe, appropriate, quality of care and support to patients and family members.
  • Holds team members accountable for standards of care, policy and procedures, bedside reporting, etc.
  • Serves as a teacher, coach and mentor to staff.
  • Contributes to the development and revision of unit standards.
  • Demonstrates efficient conflict resolution and problem solving skills.
  • Minimum Education: Bachelors of Science in Nursing.
  • Minimum Years of Experience: 2 Years of experience in areas of specialty within the past 5 years.
  • Required Certifications/Licensure: National nursing certification in specialty at time of hire/promotion or must obtain within 6 months of hire/promotion into role.
  • Current RN license to practice in the State of South Carolina.
  • Consideration will be given to those with an ADN or Diploma nursing degree who are presently enrolled in a RN to BS in Nursing or RN to MS in nursing program with the expectation that the degree be completed within 12 months of hire/promotion into the Clinical Coordinator role.
  • Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits.
  • Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
  • Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one.
  • Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary.
  • Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary.
  • Adoption assistance.
  • Employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment.
  • Tuition reimbursement.
  • Student loan forgiveness.
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