Clinical Coordinator III / RN

• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 20
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: $60/hr - $60/hr

Position Summary

Under the general direction of the Clinical Care Manager and the Director of Dermatologic Surgery, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for assisting in the management of the delivery of patient care across two faculty practice sites and four divisions, including hospital-sponsored teaching clinic. In addition to primary responsibilities within the division of Dermatologic surgery, the clinical nurse will be expected to assist as reasonably needed in other divisions within the department of dermatology.

Responsibilities

Tasks include but are not limited to coordinating patient care; anesthetizing by local injection; assisting in surgical procedures; developing a nurse-patient/family relationship; and assessing and managing patients within all adult age groups from young adult to geriatrics. Perform diagnostic testing and analysis of results. The incumbent needs to be a meticulous recorder of patient information. Therefore, excellent interpersonal communication skills are a must, along with the ability to extract information during patient history interviews. The nurse must be able to carefully and easily explain a treatment and follow-up plan to patients.

Other duties will include ordering appropriate laboratory supplies and following up on results, answering pre and post-operative questions, performing pre-operative telephone consultations, gathering data, and acting as a liaison.

• Assist Physicians with assessment, evaluation and management of patient care of patients.
• Communicate all clinical activity to supervising Physician.
• Reports to supervising Physician, assists in surgical procedures
• Prepare, dilute, draw up medication as needed for use in the faculty practice and Resident clinic
• Prepares equipment and aids physician during patient examinations, surgical procedures, Mohs surgery and diagnostic testing of patients.
• Observes, records, and reports patient's condition and reaction to drugs and treatments to physicians. Dispenses medication as directed
• Provides back up support for Dermatology medical procedures in both faculty practices and Resident Dermatology clinic.
• Assess patients using all available physical and diagnostic data, incorporating medical history and evaluate patient status and progress with current plan of care.
• Maintains exam rooms for necessary supplies and materials. Ensures cleanliness. Provides support when preparing list of supplies needed.
• Provide coverage, when needed to monitor and assess patients during and after selected therapies. Some infusions will require on-site monitoring if infusion reaction/allergic reaction occurs; perform CPR
• Attend staff meetings, patient support meeting, and continuing education pertaining to specialty as appropriate
• Participate in sign-out activities and all patients follow up
• Perform patient and family education and counseling including disease state, management/plan of care, side effect, treatment, medications, all follow up
• Perform phone triage as appropriate and provide phone follow up/direction to patient appropriate to situation
• Ensures compliance with applicable regulatory agency standards (e.g., OSHA, JCAHO, DOH, HIPAA, billing compliance, etc.)
• Provide cross coverage and other duties in other areas as the need arises.

COMPETENCIES:

• Knowledge of medical safety practices and ability to evaluate existing standards and implement new policies and procedures; knowledge of current clinical best practices and clinical state-of-the-art procedures; and knowledge of organizational policies, regulations and procedures to administer patient care.
• Excellent oral/written communication, interpersonal, organizational, and computer skills Epic electronic medical record, Microsoft Office).
• Ability to work effectively both independently and within diverse workgroups.
• Ability to identify problems, research and recommend solutions, develop and maintain quality systems, and exercise a high degree of initiative, judgment, discretion and independent decision-making.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing or equivalent in education and experience.
• 4 years of related experience.
• Current New York State RN license.
• BLS certification and ACLS certification required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's prepared candidates preferred.
• Dermatology and Mohs experience strongly preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

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