Description
The Clinical Coordinator is responsible for the complex, multi-disciplinary coordination of specialty patient population(s), developing, evaluating and revising care pathways based on assessments conducted through engagement with the patient, family and multiple departments and disciplines. The Clinical Coordinator interfaces directly with MSH Departments, Administrators, Nursing, Medical and Quality leadership, and clinical staff and coordinates care for a patient population regarding the clinical, educational and operational impact of all care delivery, and outcome measures.
Responsible to:
This position reports directly to discipline leadership with a professional line to MSH Nursing or related disciplines professional practice leadership.
Responsible for:
Developing and implementing a plan of care for a specialty patient population, and/or specialty specific standards of care organization wide.
Responsibilities
1.Clinical Leadership
- Organizes and leads in the execution of day-to-day patient care coordination, as appropriate to program objectives and areas of clinical expertise.
- Reviews all pediatric surgical patients scheduled or to be scheduled for surgery to identify those patients that need further review and optimization by the PARAP group.
- Performs all preoperative phone calls.
- Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the high quality care
- Engages with all pediatric patients/families to obtain a history and to identify concerns that need to be addressed.
- Engage with patients/families the day prior to their scheduled surgery to inform/educate on preoperative requirements (e.g., NPO guidelines) and to determine if there are any changes to their medical condition that would require further consultation and/or postponement of their surgery.
- Maintains records of interactions and assists in coordinating recommendations made by the PARAP group.
- Serves as a resource for patients and their families.
- Acts as a patient advocate utilizing the Patient Bill of Rights.
- Participates in promoting and maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment.
2. Development
- Serves as a resource to leadership and staff in the development and implementation of nursing standards consistent with the established model of care.
- Maintains competency by participation in continuing education, professional organizations and other related activities.
- Supports academic affiliations for purposes of providing clinically enriching experiences for students of nursing and other related clinical disciplines.
- Works collaboratively with clinical leadership and supportive resources to ensure that patients have access to comprehensive interdisciplinary patient and family educational programs throughout their care trajectory.
3. Professional Practice
- Supports the mission, philosophy, goals and objectives of the Department of Nursing or Related Discipline and The Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital.
- Maintains clinical competencies, supports relationship centered care, the professional practice model, the care delivery model and is responsible and accountable for their own nursing practice.
- Advocates the highest standards of nursing or discipline related practice.
- Approaches patients, families and other members of the health care team in a professional, respectful manner.
- Serves as a clinical role model and resource to the nursing staff.
- Serves as a professional resource to other members of the health care team.
- Demonstrates professional involvement by:
- Attending and participating in workshops, seminars, and courses as presenter or author.
- Keeping abreast of current literature and trends in practice.
- Participating in related professional organizations.
- Considers ethical issues in professional nursing practice.
- Treats co-workers, patients and families with dignity and respect.
- Is open and responsive to the diverse backgrounds and experience of other people, and promotes and environment that is sensitive to cultural diversity.
- Maintains attendance and punctuality record in accordance with departmental standards.
- Adheres to dress code in accordance with departmental policy.
4. Administrative Practice
- Collaborates with other members of the PARAP group in the development, implementation, and ongoing review of policies, procedures, and standards of care for the pediatric surgical patient populations.
- Demonstrates knowledge of hospital, departmental and care center standards, policies, procedures and guidelines as well as regulatory agency standards. Assures readiness for Joint Commission, American College of Surgeons, and other agency surveys and presents related programs during Joint Commission and other agency visits.
- Participates in the development and implementation of continuous quality improvement programs to support the professional practice model and care delivery systems
- Participates in quality management activities including identifying and communicating issues of performance improvement and risk in a timely manner, using chain of command.
- Leads and participates in committee activities
Qualifications
Education Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in specific discipline (i.e., Bachelor of Science in Nursing) is required.
- Certification in specialty field is preferred
Experience Requirements:
- 2 years' experience in pediatric perioperative discipline.
- Pre-Post Anesthesia Care experience preferred
Licensing and Certification Requirements
- Current NYS nurse licensure
- BCLS certification Required Issuing Authority: AHA
Collective bargaining unit: NYSNA-MSH
Compensation Statement
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for this role is $61.53 - $61.53 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
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Employer Description
Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.
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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”
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Compensation
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $61.53 - $61.53 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
