What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Records Nurse Specialist position at Yale New Haven Health?
The Yale New Haven Health System is dedicated to providing exceptional patient-centered care. As a Medical Records Nurse, you will be an integral part of our healthcare team, upholding the organization's mission, vision, and values.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and families
- Communicate effectively with patients, families, and healthcare teams
- Respect patients' values, preferences, and knowledge in holistic data collection and health care outcomes
- Utilize the nursing process components of assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation
- Coordinate care delivery and transitions in care
- Employ strategies to promote health and a safe environment
Standards of Professional Performance:
- Ethics: Practice in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles
- Culturally Congruent Practice: Communicate effectively with diverse populations
- Communication: Collaborate with healthcare consumers and other stakeholders
- Collaboration: Seek knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice
- Education: Integrate evidence and research findings into practice
- Quality of Practice: Contribute to quality nursing practice
- Resource Utilization: Utilize appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain evidence-based nursing services
- Environmental Health: Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner
Requirements:
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with moderate stress and risk of injury from patient care
- Excellent customer service skills, flexible, team player, self-starter, compassionate, committed to delivering safe, high-quality, patient-centered care
