OP Nurse Coordinator I - Colorectal Surgery Clinic

UPMC Passavant is hiring a full time Registered Nurse to support our Colorectal Surgery Clinic located within UPMC Passavant. 

Schedule:  M-F 7:30am – 4:30pm NO evenings, weekends or on call required

The main responsibilities of this role include direct patient care, stocking unit, ordering supplies, registration etc: 

Purpose:
The Outpatient Nurse Coordinator is a Registered Nurse is a member of the care delivery team. The Outpatient Nurse Coordinator is responsible for the care of the patient in a global view, accountable for multiple aspects of the patient care package even when patient contact is minimized. The Outpatient Nurse Coordinator uses independent judgment and continued communication with the patient, family, physician and community resources to assist the patient in attaining a measure of outpatient health. The Outpatient Nurse Coordinator a commitment to the community and to the nursing profession.

Responsibilities:

• Participates in work that improves patient care and the professional practice environment . Provides oversight and supervision to the overall practice environment, assisting all other disciplines and directing clinical/administrative activity as need arises. Demonstrates leadership capabilities with new nursing staff, patient information coordinators, medical assistants and office assistant staff in the daily management of the patient process.
• Formulates goals and a plan of care for patients that involves the patient as partner and considers the individual needs of the patient in a holistic manner. 
• Triages patient situations and coordinates care with physician. Assist physician with all aspects of patient care including assessment, evaluation and education. Provides care for patients in a global, holistic method-responsibility for the patient is viewed in a continual manner, not simply at the time of office/procedural visit.
• Accountable for outpatient treatment follow up necessary for patient to maintain health in between outpatient visits. Serves as primary nursing resource to patient caseload.
• Facilitates necessary services outside of the healthcare facility, interacts with homecare and other support services.
• Assists the departmental manager (Practice Coordinator or Practice Manager) in patient care planning, operations and innovations.

• Actively participates in department or practice-specific quality improvement efforts. Identifies opportunity for quality improvement to colleagues and management. Takes personal responsibility in improving patient satisfaction with the quality of care and service. Utilizes research and evidence-based practice to support improvement in clinical care: identifies research issues or articles related to clinical specialty or areas of interest Actively assists and participates in all preparation and maintenance activities for regulatory agency reviews and quality audits.

  Becomes the patient advocate and voice to the physicians and physician extenders within the practice.