Registered Nurse (RN), Care Coordinator

Job Description

At UC Health, we're proud to have the best and brightest teams and clinicians collaborating toward our common purpose: to advance healing and reduce suffering.

As the region's adult academic health system, we strive for innovation and provide world-class care for not only our community, but patients from all over the world. Join our team and you'll be able to develop your skills, grow your career, build relationships with your peers and patients, and help us be a source of hope for our friends and neighbors.

UC Health is committed to providing an inclusive, equitable and diverse place of employment.

UC Health's Lung Cancer Screening Program is a Lung Cancer Alliance Screening Center of Excellence with a strong, collaborative multi-disciplinary team comprised of lung cancer experts. The position involves patient assessment and triage, care coordination and navigation, and community education and outreach.

Responsibilities

Esophageal Disease Center Coordinator

• Manages new referrals, obtaining all external records and imaging and schedules all appointments in the clinic
• Coordinates all care including scheduling tests, referrals, follow up appointments and surgery
• Educates patients and families
• Facilitates transition of care from inpatient to outpatient, including ensuring home health care, wound vacs, tube feed supplies, etc are arranged
• Coordinates esophageal tumor board and EDC center meetings
• Identifies system issues that may impede attainment of outcomes and outline potential strategies for resolution
• Develops and evaluates critical pathways in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team
• Thoracic Surgery Patient Coordinator
• Supports thoracic surgery clinics
• Provides preoperative education for all surgical patients and serves as continuity between in-patient and out-patient care
• Handles post-discharge patient calls to ensure appropriate progress
• Obtains consents for thoracic tumor bank and database
• Handles all medication refills/new prescriptions, including prior authorization
• Assists with coordinating care, such as obtaining cardiology clearance
• Assists with scheduling surgeries, procedures, etc.
• Triage all patient calls
• Serves as the primary resource for patient calls, properly triaging medical urgency
• Works with provider to establish patients' next step of care regarding their clinical concern
• Handles all medical refills, patient MyChart advise requests, and prior authorizations
• pathways in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team

Lung Volume Reduction Surgery

• Manages new referrals, obtaining all external records and imaging
• Helps coordinate care for preoperative patients, including providing patient/family education
• Facilitates transition of care from inpatient to outpatient and coordinates long-term follow up including administration of required surveys
• Maintains LVRS database as required for CMS certification
• Coordinates Joint Commission certification for LVRS, including preparing documents for site visits
• Identifies system issues that may impede attainment of outcomes and outline potential strategies for resolution
• Develops and evaluates critical pathways in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team

Thoracic Surgery

• Supports thoracic surgery clinics
• Provides preoperative education for all surgical patients and serves as continuity between in-patient and out-patient care
• Handles post-discharge patient calls to ensure appropriate progress
• Obtains consents for thoracic tumor bank and database
• Handles all medication refills/new prescriptions, including prior authorization
• Assists with coordinating care, such as obtaining cardiology clearance
• Assists with scheduling surgeries, procedures, etc.

Qualifications

• Minimum Required: Bachelor's Degree - Nursing.
• Preferred: Master's Degree - Nursing.
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Ohio.
• Current BLS required. ACLS certification Preferred.
• Certification in specialty area strongly preferred.
• Minimum Required: 1 - 2 Years equivalent experience.
• Preferred: 3 - 5 Years equivalent experience.