RN Care Coordinator - Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Off Shift)
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A Brief Overview
Collaborates with all members of the healthcare team, patient, and family (or significant others) to coordinate timely and efficient assessment of discharge planning needs and formulation of patient and family centered discharge plans.
What You Will Do
Collaborate with the bedside nurse and clinical team, meet with patient and/or family to complete an initial discharge planning assessment within 24 hours of patient admission (25%).
Identify patients and families with complex psychosocial, financial and legal discharge planning needs requiring a Social Work referral.
Develop, document and implement a discharge plan consistent with individual patient needs and with patient and family goals (40%).
Develop plans with attention to individual patient and family goals.
Discuss estimated length of stay, treatment plan and discharge plan with attending physician and/or medical team.
Ensure that the interdisciplinary care plan and discharge plan are consistent with patient’s clinical course, continued care needs and covered services.
Refer to appropriate alternate site agency(s) based on post discharge needs and patient choice.
Provide linkage to community resources and UH network services to facilitate optimal care, and serve as liaison to community agencies.
Communicate and collaborate with the work team using a multidisciplinary approach (20%).
Provide guidance/consultation to peers/team regarding complex psychosocial and/or discharge planning issues/barriers.
Participate in interdisciplinary team rounding.
Coordinate discharge teaching. Collaborate with bedside nurse and members of the interdisciplinary team to support teaching efforts, with special attention to situations where patient and family education requires teach-back and show-back.
Collaborate with Case Management/Utilization Review to clarify patient status, plan of care, barriers to discharge and discharge readiness (15%).
Ensure timely completion of discharge, transfer and/or referral forms and discharge orders.
Coordinate activities to ensure patient’s appeal rights under Notification of Hospital Discharge Appeal Rights.
Additional Responsibilities
Perform other duties as assigned.
Comply with all policies and standards.
Refer to documentation provided by the department during orientation for specific duties and responsibilities.
Abide by all requirements to safely and securely maintain Protected Health Information (PHI) for our patients. Annual training, the UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures address appropriate use of PHI in the workplace.