Hospitalist Clinical Coordinator - SOM Medicine Hospitalist
Company: University of Mississippi Medical Center
Location: Jackson
Posted on: May 3, 2024
Job Description:
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Hospitalist Apply locations Jackson, MS - Main Campus time type
Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id R00035440
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Job Requisition ID:R00035440Job
Category:NursingOrganization:SOM-Medicine-HOSP
DirectorLocation/s:Main Campus JacksonJob Title:Hospitalist
Clinical Coordinator - SOM Medicine HospitalistJob Summary:To
provide expert clinical services specializing in an assigned area
of nursing practice. To integrate the specialized nursing practice
which focuses patient services with medical diagnosis and disease
treatment. To provide direct nursing care and clinical
consultation, research, and education for patients and other
nursing and clinical staff. To implement improvements in the
delivery of care when necessary. To mentor and/or train to develop
quality standards within the assigned nursing practice. To perform
job duties in accordance with the medical center's
purpose.Education & Experience Bachelor's degree in Nursing with a
minimum of three (3) years nursing experience in Medical/Surgical,
Critical Care and/or Hospice, Home Health or Public Health
required. Graduate of an approved School of Nursing with valid RN
license.
Certifications, Licenses or Registration Required: - Valid RN
license. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Communicates effectively
with a wide range of age groups, ethnic, educational, and
socioeconomic backgrounds. Demonstrates physical and psychosocial
assessment skills. Displays and utilizes effective organizational
skills, with ability to prioritize with accuracy and speed.
Demonstrates effective problem solving and critical thinking
skills. Illustrates effective computer skills. Maintains clinical
and professional competency levels required of age specific
populations. Ability to identify cost and quality issues related
-to patient care. Able to communicate effectively in groups and on
move. Ability to work independently, exercising sound judgement,
discretion, and initiative to facilitate change.
Responsibilities
- Directs patient care by assessing, planning, executing,
administering, and evaluating treatments and procedures for
patients. Coordinates acquisition of outpatient records from
primary care provider or referring provider.
- Consults, educates, and monitors patient evaluation and
treatment decisions. Acts as a liaison and facilitator between
hospitalist, staff members, case managers, and attending physicians
regarding patients.
- Rounds with hospitalist ensuring all lab work, diagnostic
results and other test results are available on chart and notifies
hospitalist as appropriate.
- May be involved in auditing or evaluating process improvements
in the quality of patient care and nursing research or assist in
designing tools and systems to optimize nursing patient care.
- Acts as an internal and external consultant to promote clinical
and patient care standards. Facilitates coordination and
development of a comprehensive and individual plan of care in
collaboration with patient, family and multidisciplinary team.
- Manages/produces/coordinates "MD TRU" rounds every morning.
Checks admission criteria and prospective plan for obs. Acts as a
hospitalist service liaison with patient care staff.
- Facilitates one on one communication with primary care
physician regarding current and ongoing patient care needs. Follows
up discharged patients within 48 hours of discharge. Copies and
sends appropriate discharge paperwork to primary care physician.
Works with case managers to track avoidable days and adverse
events.
- Participates in development and surveying for staff
satisfaction. Verifies PCP/referring physician notification of
admission. Works with clinical pharmacists to ensure most up to
date medications from home.
- Navigates patients through the healthcare system based on
individual and patient population needs. Directs liaison activities
to integrate patient in the healthcare continuum including
procuring of services, health promotion and counseling, and
prevention screening. Applies approved criteria to monitor
admissions and continued stay. Monitors implementation of
guidelines for resources, trends and tracks variances. Coordinates
the use of outside agencies and community resources in establishing
maintenance plans.
- Track hospitalist program data on a monthly basis. Acts as a
liaison of clinical staff and physicians and staff on integral
criteria. Analyzes and synthesizes all data related to catastrophic
cases including data related to quality of care as well as cost
effectiveness.
- The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the
duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be
construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the
right to add or change duties at any time. Physical and
Environmental Demands
Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical
environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold,
occasional handling or working with potentially dangerous
equipment, occasional exposure to biohazardous conditions such as
risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or
airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate
attention to safety considerations, occasional working hours
significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional
travelling to offsite locations, frequent activities subject to
significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, frequent
work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality,
frequent bending, occasional lifting and carrying more than 100
pounds, occasional climbing, occasional crawling, occasional
crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional kneeling,
occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching, occasional
sitting, frequent standing, occasional twisting, and constant
walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%,
constant-51% or more)Time Type:Full time FLSA Designation/Job
Exempt: YesPay Class:SalaryFTE %:100 Work Shift: RotatingBenefits
Eligibility:Benefits EligibleGrant Funded:NoJob Posting
Date:04/1/2024Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date
specified): About Us About Us The University of Mississippi Medical
Center (UMMC), headquartered in Jackson, is the state's only
academic medical center. Here, we work to improve the lives of
Mississippians through our three missions of education, research,
and health care. Education: UMMC includes -seven health science
schools: medicine, nursing, dentistry, health related professions,
graduate studies, population health, and pharmacy. (The School of
Pharmacy is headquartered on the University of Mississippi campus
in Oxford.) Enrollment in all programs is more than 3,000 students.
Research: From world-renowned studies on heart disease, diabetes,
and hypertension to advanced treatment for cancer and a human
physiology simulation program used by NASA, researchers at UMMC are
unraveling the diseases that affect Mississippians, while creating
new, high-tech jobs and injecting tens of millions of dollars
annually into the state's economy. Health Care: UMMC provides a
wide-range of patient care programs. At our main campus in Jackson,
in addition to outpatient clinics, we offer a women and infant's
hospital and a critical care hospital along with University
Hospital, plus the state's only:
- Children's hospital (Batson Children's Hospital)
- Heart, kidney, liver, and pancreas transplant programs
- Adult and pediatric congenital heart programs We also care for
Mississippians statewide with community hospitals UMMC Grenada,
UMMC Holmes County, plus pediatric clinics in Tupelo, Hattiesburg
and the Gulf Coast. In addition, our Center for Telehealth offers
specialized care remotely, through online video chat technology, at
more than two hundred locations throughout the state. EEO
Statement: The University of Mississippi Medical Center provides
equal opportunity in any employment practice, education program, or
education activity to all qualified persons. The Medical Center
complies with all applicable laws regarding equal opportunity and
affirmative action and does not unlawfully discriminate against any
employee or applicant for employment based upon race, color,
gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or
genetic information. Inquiries or complaints may be referred to the
Office of the Director, Employee Relations, 2500 North State
Street, Jackson, MS 39216-4505.
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