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Requirements

• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice: Required
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification or Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from approved vendor per AH policy: Required
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from approved vendor per AH policy: Required

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN): Preferred
• Case management experience in a healthcare setting: Preferred
• Experience in acute, emergency or perinatal setting: Preferred

Responsibilities

• Assists patient and family in identifying and accessing appropriate institutional and community resources.
• Implements appropriate care intervention and follow-up to ensure patients receive timely care, preventing delays and access to appropriate services and follow up instructions from managing physicians.
• Interacts with other hospital departments in fulfilling the needs of the patients.
• Makes initial and ongoing assessments of patient needs (clinical, emotional and social) and makes appropriate recommendations or referrals for care.
• Facilitates the timely completion and confidential reporting of diagnostic testing results to patients and families with interpretation, as well as to ordering clinicians through active tracking of ordered tests.
• Collaborates with the team of patient, family, and healthcare providers in providing patient care in a safe, healing, humane, and caring environment.
• Provides learning opportunities for patients/family members and team members.
• Directly provides health information to patients, families, and treatment team.
• Documents coordinator and patient interactions in electronic or hardcopy chart in a manner consistent with hospital standards.
• Creates reports from patient data such as volumes and outcomes.
• Monitors, analyzes, and reports to the clinic governing body clinical and operational key indicators and identifies opportunities for performance improvement.
• Identifies both index and readmission patients who are high-risk for readmissions and who may require additional interventions and education.
• Helps monitor the recovery of high-risk patients, coordinating follow up care, including follow up phone calls to the patient post-hospitalization, assisting as needed with scheduling of primary or specialty care visit and facilitating home health services.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical and religious exemptions may apply for vaccinations.