RN Administrative Coordinator - Patient Care Services

Description

Nursing Admin Coordinator - UNC Rex Patient Care Services

Ready to use your nursing expertise in a role where every decision can make a hospital-wide impact? Join UNC Rex Patient Care Services as a Nursing Admin Coordinator and help keep patient care moving safely and efficiently across the hospital.

This fast-paced, non-bedside role is at the center of hospital operations-coordinating patient placement, monitoring capacity, responding to emerging needs, and partnering with nurses, physicians, and leadership across the organization.

• Monitor hospital-wide activity, bed availability, admissions, and transfers.
• Coordinate patient placement based on clinical needs and available resources.
• Respond to emergency situations and changing operational needs.
• Communicate significant events and updates to nursing and executive leadership.
• Maintain shift reports, including census, patient activity, restraints, and sitter needs.
• Review acute-care transfer documentation for accuracy and EMTALA compliance.
• Serve as a clinical resource and support quality improvement and evidence-based nursing practices.

• BSN preferred
• Current NC RN license required
• BLS certification required
• Five years of nursing experience desired

If you're an experienced nurse who enjoys critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and seeing the bigger picture, this is your opportunity to take your nursing career beyond the bedside and make a difference across the entire hospital.

Your clinical expertise. Your leadership. Your impact-hospital wide.

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary:
Keeps informed of critical patients, police cases, and media interest cases throughout the hospital; monitors bed availability, responds to emergency situations, maintains shift report, and provides feedback to managers/directors as needed.

Responsibilities:
1. Keeps informed of critical patients, police cases, and media interest cases throughout the hospital.
2. Monitors bed availability and assigns and/or assists in the assignment of admissions and transfers appropriately.
3. Support staff in the decision to call the Clinical Manager with staffing needs/extra needs.
4. Responds to emergency situations in accordance with established procedures.
5. Serves as a representative for Rex Healthcare and keeps the Executive staff informed of activities/incidents on days, evenings, nights, weekends and holidays by appropriate reporting.
6. Keeps informed of current policies and procedures in order to be a resource to staff.
7. Monitors hospital wide activity in order to provide assistance as needed. Provides feedback to Clinical Manager/Directors when indicated.
8. Maintains a shift report that details restraint use, sitters and hospital/unit activities and census.
9. Upon being informed of patient transfers to other acute care facilities, reviews forms for accuracy and compliance with EMTALA and maintains a log of these transfers.
10. Adheres to the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics. Participates in performance improvement and quality improvement activities. Recognizes, supports, and utilizes evidence based nursing practices.

Other information:
Education Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree in Nursing from an accredited Nursing school preferred.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
* Must have NC RN Licensure.
* RN NC LIC;BCLS
Professional Experience Requirements:
* Five years of previous experience is desired.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
* Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public. Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry. Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

Organization Unit: Rex Patient Care Services

Work Type: Part Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 24.00

Salary Range:$41.45 - $59.58 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Night Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.