RN Clinical Coordinator

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NEW YEAR, NEW OPPORTUNITIES! 

After restructuring our Clinical Leadership roles, The Davis Community is excited to offer experienced nurse candidates new opportunities to join our team! 

Description

*$5,000 Sign On Bonus*

INTRODUCTION

The Davis Community is a vibrant senior living neighborhood and has been a proud corporate citizen of Wilmington, NC for over 60 years. Established as a skilled nursing facility in the early 1960s, Davis quickly became the premier healthcare center for senior care, and while they have grown and evolved, adding to services offered, we continue to be highly regarded in the region as a community that emphasizes compassion, care, and show of respect and dignity for residents.

COMMUNITY CULTURE

At The Davis Community, deliberate and diligent efforts are made to emphasize and focus on an underlying culture of respect and service that can be seen and felt by all. Employees, residents, and guests of the community are treated with respect and personalized care to the best of the organization’s ability. The desire to continue to elevate all aspects of services is preeminent so that Davis can provide an empowering and caring retirement atmosphere filled with friends, enjoyment, and a fulfilling sense of community. Our Leading advantages include:

• State-of-the-art Facilities
• On-demand Pay
• Benefits begin after 30 days
• Low-cost lunches
• Free Membership to our gym and indoor pool
• Shift differential
• Work-life Balance
• Growth
• Competitive Wages

We spend about 2,000 hours per year at work. Why not make that time matter? For us, ‘work that matters’ is less about what you do, and more about how you do it.

The Davis Community requires that all current and new employees, including contract staff, receive an annual influenza vaccination and TB skin test unless a reasonable or disability accommodation is granted.

BASIC PURPOSE:

The Clinical Coordinator provides clinical coordination, mentoring and quality assurance ensuring the mission, vision and values of the organization are supported through clinical services. This Mentor participates in planning, organizing, directing and facilitating clinical operations of the neighborhood under the direction of the DON to ensure regulatory compliance, nurture a person-centered and resident directed culture. Partners with HHC in providing harmonious environment predicated on Person Centered Care, with holistic approaches to consistently achieve/maintain overall wellness. 

MAJOR WORK ACTIVITIES:

1. Assures all clinical policies and procedures of the household are maintained. Interprets and communicates same to all in the household as needed, with emphasis on resident, family or designated representative relationships.  

2. Assuring the hiring, orientation, training and evaluation of the household is adequate to support quality outcomes in specific areas of clinical accountability.

3. Assuring regulatory compliance by encouraging appropriate record keeping and charting. Maintaining appropriate files in compliance in specific areas of clinical accountability.

4. Ensuring the household participates in Quality Improvement measurements that will surface questions and issues to address and that appropriate follow up is taken to assure quality outcomes, performing professional audits and observations to confirm the competency of all household staff. 

5. Guides the implementation of clinical policies and procedures which ensure safe, sanitary and efficient practices supporting professional nursing care standard; assures documentation, medication administration, resident nursing care, safety/sanitation, RAI process/MDS, or other areas as needed.

6. Skin care management to include assessment of skin integrity, circulation, continence and activity level. Record/Report results as appropriate.

7. Develop treatment plan in accordance to HCC nursing service adopted standing order protocol, and in collaboration with physician(s) and other responsible disciplines as appropriate. 

8. Teaches, delegates, coordinates and supervises (or participates there in) primary nurses in implementation of residents’ individual plan of care to include treatments. 

9. Provides oversight to various QI systems to include but not limited to; falls, events, observations, weights, therapies, restorative initiatives, behavior logs, pharmacy support, lab retrieval and monitoring. 

10. Demonstrates through knowledge and practice, principals of infection control and universal precautions. 

11. Supports and participates in new admissions processing/auditing and general medical clerking. Supports staff by comprehensive study of incoming admission documentation, medication reconciliation and creating E-Health chart.

12. Collaborates with pharmacy/MD(s), (both attending and outside community) Therapy, and other disciplines as appropriate to foster partnerships and promote overall resident well being/support. 

13. Develops initial rapport with residents and families to decrease anxieties and foster bonds.

14. Develops and initiates individual care plan and ensures team implementation. Reassesses weekly and adjusts as necessary to ensure “Person Center Care”.

15. Develops and implements initial education to patient. Communicates to team to ensure reinforced. 

16. Conducts resident rounds daily and encourages collaborative approach of nursing continuum.

Requirements

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND WORKING CONDITIONS:

· Good geriatric health assessment skills (physical, mental and developmental staging).

· Good planning, initiation, delivery and evaluation skills with regard to nursing care.

· Ability to mentor, and provide oversight to other personnel in the delivery of care. 

· Knowledge of documentation requirements related to timeliness, accuracy and completeness. 

· Working knowledge of State and Federal regulations.

· Works in a well lighted, temperature controlled office area as they apply to the LTC setting. 

· Ability to perform physical exertion at least 50% of the time (walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, bending)

· Ability to perform intermittent lifting, pushing (wheelchairs, carts and equipment) and carrying objects weighing between 30-40 pounds. 

· Moderate exposure to infectious diseases.

· Good communication skills both verbal and written with ability to maintain the highest level of confidentiality.

· Posses good organizational ability and strong interpersonal skills

· Physical job demands may be subject to possible modifications to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities

Education: High School Diploma or equivalent with graduation from an accredited school of nursing.

Licensure/ Certification:  Current North Carolina licensure as Registered Nurse.

Experience: Two years previous long-term care nursing experience preferred.

An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.