***URGENT POSITION***
Salary Range: BR/hour - BR/hour
Agency Placement Fee 25 %

Are you ready to join a staff of like-minded nursing professionals that strive to provide compassionate, affordable, high quality care in their community? At Valley Regional Hospital, patients are the center of their coordinated care system and right now they have an opening for a Clinical Coordinator to join their team on their Medical Surgical/PCU Unit.

Are you a Registered Nurse with experience with inpatient care settings? Do you feel confident assisting the Nurse Manager with the unit organization and clinical management of patients? As a Clinical Coordinator your primary responsibility would be to Coordinates and supports the day-to-day activities of the unit in the care of patients utilizing best practice and ensuring adherence to regulations and policies. Per the hiring manager: The ideal candidate would have a strong clinical background as they are essentially the resource on the floor for all of the nursing staff. Primary responsibilities/expectations would include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Functioning as a clinical/staff RN, occasionally responsible for a small patient assignment of 1-3 patients.
• Charge nurse duties such as overseeing LPN, RN and LNA practice and delegating care as appropriate.
  
• Helps to coordinate employee breaks, creates the nursing assignment and makes adjustments based on changing acuity and/or discharges/admissions.
  
• Assists LPNs/RNs/LNAs as appropriate throughout the shift - assists with patient care, monitors for lab/diagnostic test results, follows up on referrals, consults with different departments as needed (pharmacy, lab, radiology).
  
• Helps to provide the nurse manager with concerns regarding employee performance and handles in the moment conflicts as needed.
  
• Monitors charting for timely/accurate documentation.
  
• Communicates with nursing team members and management within the hospital to coordinate day to day activities of the unit (discharges, admissions, transfers).
  
• Acts as house supervisor/main resource on off shifts (nights, weekends, holidays) keeping all units/providers aware of bed availability, communicating with administrator on call as needed.
• Communicates with other area hospitals regarding bed availability to facilitate patient transfers to and from VRH.