"CLINICAL CARE COORDINATOR (CCC) Taubman Center Thoracic Surgery Clinic"

Responsibilities

• Provide coordination of nursing care, education, and support to patients and families of the Thoracic Surgery Service and other surgical patients.
• Serve as a clinical resource and consultant to all customers of general surgery, especially focused on thoracic surgery.
• Coordinate care pre-operatively and post-operatively for the surgical patient population primarily in the thoracic surgery outpatient setting.
• Assist in the development of patient care standards in collaboration with the clinical management team.
• Assist in the development and implementation of competencies, protocols, and patient education tools to improve patient care.
• Seek out patient education materials.
• Work collaboratively with all members of the general surgery team to provide efficient patient care processes, especially for the thoracic patient population.
• Order tests, renews prescriptions, informs patients of results from testing, telephone triage (gathering information, giving instructions and answers to patients, teaching, relaying problems to MDs, and making decisions for patients to come to ER or clinic using nursing assessment skills).
• Participate in quality improvement and/or LEAN initiatives.
• Support research initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan
• Educational Requirement: (must meet one of the following):
  • Bachelors degree in Nursing OR
  • Associates degree/diploma in nursing AND a Masters degree in Nursing
• Five (5) years of RN experience
• Three (3) years of experience (within the last 5 years) of direct inpatient or outpatient care for an adult surgical population

In order to be considered for this position the applicant must have met or will have met all the required qualifications prior to the start date of employment.

RESUME REQUIRED (for both internal & external applicants): You must attach a complete and accurate resume to be fully considered for this position.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two or more years (within the last 5 years) of experience providing post-op care to Thoracic Surgery patients
• Demonstrated ability to provide post-surgical procedures ie: suture removal, drain removal
• Experience managing surgical patients in the outpatient setting
• Ambulatory care phone triage
• Experience providing patient education
• Two (2) or more years of recent (in last 3 years) experience with electronic medical records, specifically EPIC
• Computer/typing skills such as Microsoft Word and Excel

Salary & Nursing Framework Level

This UMPNC RN posting is posted under the Role-Specific Advancement Model (RSAM) as: CCC- COMPETENT NE. Actual RSAM LEVEL and salary will be determined at time of hire. RSAM levels range from CCC-COMPETENT NE to CCC-EXPERT NE TO CCC-MASTERY NE or CCC-Mastery Plus NE.

Hours

Hours per week: 40 hours
Shift / Days / Hours: Day Shift, Monday-Friday, 8am – 5pm
Location: primarily Taubman Center with some potential for other locations as needed based on division growth changes/strategies.

All employees will be expected to float to a designated unit(s) in times of low census or department needs.

This position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement between the U-M and the Michigan Nurses Association and the U-M Professional Nurse Council union, which contains and settles all matters with respect to wages, benefits, hours and other terms and conditions of employment.

If you have questions regarding this posting or would like assistance with nursing opportunities please contact Nurse Recruitment at (734) 936-5183.