RN Clinical Coordinator Emergency Room

CommonSpirit Health • Westminster, CO

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About The Position

The RN Clinical Coordinator actively supports the department director or manager by coordinating clinical and department activities for the Emergency Room. The coordinator serves as a clinical resource and professional role model, demonstrates sound clinical judgment, and helps ensure high-quality patient care. Responsibilities include connecting physicians with the patient care team, authorizing work procedures, assigning duties, managing the shift as charge nurse, and taking patient assignments as unit needs and acuity require. The role promotes patient well-being and adherence to professional standards.

The coordinator assesses patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs; evaluates their responses to care and intervenes to support optimal outcomes; and develops and implements plans of care in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team. During the designated shift, the coordinator provides leadership and support for daily unit operations, prioritizes activities to meet patient-care and staff needs, ensures appropriate admissions and case assignments, and helps ensure the staff skill mix supports safe care. The coordinator also serves as a liaison to the multidisciplinary patient care team.

Requirements

• Associate Degree in Nursing or equivalent by endorsement.
• One year of clinical RN experience.
• RN license to practice in the state of employment, as applicable.
• Strong clinical skills, communication and collaboration abilities, leadership potential, and commitment to ethical practice, quality patient care, and a supportive team environment.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
• Nursing specialty certification.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, and review of medical records and clinical data.
• Evaluate patients’ responses to care and intervene to support optimal outcomes.
• Develop and implement patient plans of care in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Provide leadership, support, and coordination of unit operations during the designated shift.
• Assist in directing, organizing, and prioritizing shift activities to meet patient-care and staff needs.
• Ensure admissions and cases are appropriate for the unit or department and that the staff skill mix supports safe patient care.
• Serve as a liaison to the multidisciplinary patient care team.
• Support department leadership by coordinating clinical and department activities.
• Authorize work procedures, assign duties, manage the shift as charge nurse, and take patient assignments as unit needs and acuity require.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree