Registered Nurse - Hospitalist Clinical Care Coordinator

Cogent Healthcare, the  premier hospitalist company, seeks a Registered Nurse (RN) to join our hospitalist team in Vancouver, Washington as a Clinical Care Coordinator.



Position Summary: The Clinical Care  Coordinator collaborates with the hospitalist physicians coordinate and manage the process of patient care from the point of admission to the hospital, through discharge and hand-off to a community care provider.

 

Essential Functions: Clinical Care Coordination

-  Actively participates in daily standup meeting with hospitalist team to ensure plan of care for patients is communicated and acted upon.

-  Collaborates with hospital care team to ensure that all current labs, test results, consults, orders, etc., are carried out in timely manner.

-  Communicates pertinent information regarding patient?s hospital stay (landmark events) with patient?s primary care provider as needed.

-  Meets with patient/family to determine barriers to discharge and set expectations for hospital stay

-  Collaborates with hospital discharge planning to ensure appropriate and safe discharge plan and disposition.

-  Ensures follow-up appoint is made with primary care provider.

-  Resolves post-discharge homecoming call issues.Quality Improvement

-  Participates in data collection for quality improvement initiatives:  conducts clinical audits, collects care delay information.

-  Under supervision of program medical director and in collaboration with hospital utilization management, evaluates clinical care and utilization of resources against current standards utilizing decision support tools:  Cogent Careguides and/or Interqual Criteria and/or Milliman & Robertson

-  Participates in client and care team meetings to evaluate and plan progress of hospitalist programEducation/Public Relations

-  Meets with patient/family on admission to educate on role of hospitalist

-  Educates and promotes hospitalist program among hospital staff

 

Education, Training, Experience:Graduation from an accredited school of nursing; BSN (preferred) Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse (RN) in state for which position exists Adult acute care experience Case management experience (preferred) Utilization management experience (preferred) Well-developed communication and influence skills