Clinical Coordinator
Job Description
The Clinical Coordinators, under the direction of the Manager, is primarily accountable for the system navigation and coordination of patient flow on the nursing unit and medical surveillance unit (MSU).
The MSU is a closed observation unit for patients not requiring ICU, but are more acute than a general medicine patient.
The MSU provides an increased level of skilled nursing care to those patients requiring frequent monitoring, observation, physiological monitoring, support, and treatment.
These skills will include cardiac monitoring and the application of telemetry. The Coordinators have an ongoing awareness and involvement in workflow of the unit.
Duties include bed management, discharge planning, advocating for the patient / family, identifying supply and equipment needs and assisting with staff scheduling.
Job Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree / Diploma in Nursing
- Current CPR Certification
- Registered or eligible for registration with the College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRNS)
Experience
Minimum of five years recent acute care nursing experience, three of which must be in the specific clinical area working with cardiac monitoring and telemetry.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to function as a role model for staff and physicians
- Demonstrated ability to work within a team environment
- Demonstrated commitment to continuing professional development
- Demonstrated computer skills as required by unit
- Demonstrated skill in teaching staff and patients
- Demonstrated unit-specific clinical competence
- Demonstrates a consultative collaborative approach with nursing and medical staff
- Demonstrates above average communication skills
- Demonstrates conflict resolution skills
- Demonstrates leadership and organizational skills
- Demonstrates the ability to be a system thinker
- Excellent analytical, judgment and decision-making skills