Nurse Patient Care Coordinator - Gastroenterology Clinic

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care, including administering medications, monitoring vital signs, and assisting with treatments.
• Conducts comprehensive assessments covering functional, environmental, psychosocial, and health information for discharge planning.
• Coordinates care plans and treatment schedules with healthcare professionals.
• Educates patients and families about diagnoses, treatment options, side effects, and coping with treatment challenges.
• Maintains accurate medical records and documents care, treatments, outcomes, and communications in the EMR.
• Provides counselling and emotional support and participates in patient-related meetings.
• Advocates for patient needs and ensures access to appropriate care and resources.
• Participates in clinical research trials and stays current with gastroenterology care advancements.
• Contributes to quality improvement, departmental goal setting, and evaluation of approaches to meeting goals.
• Monitors symptoms and treatments such as pain, nausea, and fatigue.
• Provides patients and relatives with a tour of the clinic.
• Applies infection-control and pain-management knowledge and performs additional duties as requested.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing from a minimum three-year full-time course.
• Valid license or registration to practice in the home country or country of last employment, where applicable.
• Valid Basic Life Support certification or Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification.
• A postgraduate degree in nurse management or an advanced clinical specialty is preferred.

Professional Experience

• Minimum five years of recent post-graduate experience in the related specialty.
• Ability to provide care and services based on patients' age, appropriateness, and developmental needs.
• Skills in assessing patients' and families' physical and psychological needs.
• Skills in coordinating, planning, and prioritizing care based on individual needs.