Coord - Hospitalist

Overview

UnityPoint-St Luke's Hospital

Part-Time

8 or 12 hour shifts available

The hospitalist nurse is responsible for collaboration with the entire medical care team to coordinate and manage the process of patient care from the point of admission through discharge. Integrates and coordinates clinical care of individuals, facilitates the interdisciplinary plan of care in order to meet multiple service needs, promotes continuity through elimination of fragmentation of care/service and facilitates the effective utilization of resources. Serves as educator and a central source of communication for the individual, their support systems, and the care team.

Why UnityPoint Health?

• Culture

• At UnityPoint Health, you matter. Come for a fulfilling career and experience a culture guided by uncompromising values and unwavering belief in doing what's right for the people we serve.

• Benefits

• Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options like 401K match, paid time off and education assistance that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you're in.

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment

• We're committed to ensuring you have a voice that is heard regardless of role, race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.

• Development

• We believe equipping you with support and development opportunities is an essential part of delivering a remarkable employment experience.

• Community Involvement

• Be an essential part of our core purpose-to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

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Responsibilities

Care Coordination

• Triage of new patients: take calls from the ED/clinics/outside hospitals and assign new patients to providers

• Round with providers, review charts, gather key items of clinical information for the provider and follow up on outstanding tests or treatments

• Ensure provider attention to order sets, pathways, core measures, length of stay targets, etc.

• Update white boards, answer patient/family questions, serve as a liaison between patient/family and provider, and deliver patient education

• Coordinate with nursing, care coordination, and patient/family for discharge planning

• Lead care coordination rounds

• Assist with discharge preparation, including assisting with medication reconciliation and other paperwork, making post-discharge appointments, and pre-loading discharge instructions and orders

• Field calls from discharged patients, outside pharmacies, mortuaries, etc. and fill out documents (death certificates, FMLA forms, hospice, home health, and DME requests) for physician signature

• Follow up on tests resulted after discharge

• Act on and attend corporate and local committees representing the Hospitalist Program

Collaboration

• Collaborates with physicians, nursing, social work, and multiple disciplines, departments, payers, and agencies to eliminate barriers to efficient delivery of care in the appropriate setting

• Coordinates and facilitates patient centered interdisciplinary care and communication, ensuring progress toward goal attainment

• Supports and coaches accurate clinical documentation by physicians and other healthcare team members

• Works effectively with multidisciplinary team assessing needs of the patient/family, establishing goals for the patient/family, and also assists in development of quality improvements that may cross over from department to department

• Demonstrates the ability to be flexible in meeting needs of the department as a team member

• Builds a network of positive working relationships that advocate for the patient

Delivery of Care

• Delivers high quality care utilizing the nursing process, and demonstrates knowledge and clinical skills of the specialty required on assigned unit in accordance with established policies and procedures

• Utilizes the Patient Centered Care model of care with the combination of Katarine Kolcaba's Comfort Theory

• Provides skilled intervention for the support and/or resolution of patient and family crises, problem solving, and decision making

• Improves patient and/or family understanding of and adjustment to the medical diagnosis and plan of care

• Demonstrates a working knowledge of financial and reimbursement processes to facilitate medical cost management, including best practices, effective utilization of resources, linking clinical and financial aspects of care, and access to care and level of care

• Utilize critical thinking in making independent judgments related to patient care. Maintain responsibility and accountability for knowledge of conditions as assigned patient populations.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

Identify items that are minimally required to perform the essential functions of this position.

Preferred or Specialized

Not required to perform the essential functions of the position.

Education:

Must have completed an accredited nursing program

AD in Nursing, BSN preferred

Experience:

1 to 3 years clinical experience as an RN

License(s)/Certification(s):

Valid nursing license

Valid driver's license when driving any vehicle for work-related reasons.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent communication skills, particularly in face-to-face personal contact with physicians, patients and families

• Critical thinking and problem solving skills and coping effectively with stressful situations. Must possess time management skills

• Understand the concepts of levels of care, payment systems and insurance requirements

• Working knowledge of community information and resources for referrals

• Knowledge and skills necessary to provide services/care appropriate to the age and diagnosis of patients served across the continuum of care, in accordance with the hospital/departmental/unit standards

• Maintain working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest and professional behavior

• Discretion in handling highly confidential information from patients and ability to work with highly diverse populations

Other:

Use of usual and customary equipment used to perform essential functions of the position.

• Area of Interest: Nursing;

• FTE/Hours per pay period: .4-.79;

• Department: Hospitalist Program- SLRMC;

• Shift: 8 or 12 hr shifts;

• Job ID: 150795;