Perioperative Clinic Coordinator

Perioperative Clinic Coordinator

Department of Veterans Affairs

Aurora, Colorado, United States

Responsibilities

• coordinating care
• educating patients
• evaluating outcomes

Requirements

• Active unrestricted U.S. RN registration and accredited professional nursing education required. Cardiac experience required

• Surgical coordinator preferred. Must speak and write English and pass physical, drug, and background screening

• Technical tools mentioned

• Operating Room (OR)

• Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)

• Summary

• The Perioperative Clinic Coordinator is the Cardiothoracic Outpatient Surgical Nurse Coordinator. The The Registered Nurse (RN) assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, and evaluates care based on specific surgical components. The RN provides comprehensive, professional, and personalized preparation of patients prior to surgical and/or medical procedures, to include patients scheduled to receive sedation and anesthesia care in the surgical setting.

Duties

• The RN-Cardiothoracic Outpatient Surgical Nurse Coordinator is responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising direct patient care. Duties of the position are, but not limited to: Assess, plan, implement, coordinate, and evaluate care based on specific surgical components. Provide comprehensive, professional, and personalized preparation of patients prior to surgical and/or medical procedures, to include sedation and anesthesia preparation. Coordinate of care focused on patient education, self-management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care. Follow procedures per established policies and guidelines. Influence care outcomes by collaboration with members of the interdisciplinary team. Knowledge and active participation in the unit/program level quality improvement process and initiatives as well as customer service programs. Collaborate in the daily operations of the clinic, provide patient care and support clinical functions as needed to ensure effective, efficient delivery of healthcare services. Provide competent, evidence-based care to assigned patients. Responsive to patient and provider requests, and ensure customer satisfaction which reflects an understanding of surgical procedures. Facilitate appropriate patient assessments. Coordinate anesthesia evaluations, validation of testing as ordered by the surgeon and adjunct providers, transportation assistance, lodging arrangements, identify potential roadblocks to scheduling, and alert the surgeon and operative staff, assist patients in discharge care and planning, and patient and family education. Patient and family education is focused on overall plan of care, preoperative instructions for transport to and from the procedure, and specific individualized physical preparation needed prior to surgery. Act as the patient advocate, and answer patient inquiries and resolve patient concerns. Collaborate with specialty clinic coordinators, Operating Room (OR) staff, anesthesia providers, and adjunct providers as needed to ensure complete preparation for the surgical patient. Maintain metrics related to clinic performance goals and objectives. Participate in continuous quality improvement projects. Makes Veteran care a priority, demonstrate customer service principles. Practice within guidelines of polices, standard operating procedures (SOP), and standards of care relative to the continuity of care. Other duties as assigned. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, between the hours of 7:00am - 4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Compressed may be available. Telework: Not available. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not available. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not available.

Qualifications

• Basic

Requirements

• English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7403(f), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English. Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE); OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program. Upon achievement of a State license, the individual may be appointed on temporary basis and later converted to a permanent appointment upon successful completion and graduation from the bridge program. (Reference VA Handbook 5005, Appendix G6); OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing, possession of a current, full, active, and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant an appointment as a Nurse who has