Nephrology Nurse Coordinator

We’re changing lives every day. For both our patients and our team members. We’re unique and need great people to join our team.

Requirements

• Provides chronic disease education relative to quality care for a specific patient population.
• Coordinates care between primary care physicians, community specialists and vendor services including hospitals.
• Monitors chronic disease program performance across multiple medical centers.
• Identifies gaps and implements improvements in patient and quality outcomes.
• Assists with the development of strategies for quality improvement and management related to disease education.
• Collaborates with medical center leaders and PCPs to evaluate, develop and implement patient education programs through needs assessment analysis.
• Educates patients and/or family member(s) by gaining an understanding of their cultural and religious practices, emotional barriers, desire and motivation to learn, physical and/or cognitive limitations, language barriers and readiness to learn.
• Documents patient care services in patients’ chart and department records as determined by internal policies and procedures and external laws, rules and regulations.
• Improves quality results by studying, evaluating and re-designing processes; implements changes as needed.
• Coordinates care activities with transitional care team and case management to decrease hospitalizations and lengths of stay.
• Develops trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to determine areas of opportunity supplemented with remediation strategies.
• Performs other duties as assigned and modified at manager’s discretion.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits
• Career development and advancement opportunities
• Great work-life balance
• Great compensation