Clinical Coach, Rn - Pulmonary

Serves as onsite mentor and nursing knowledge and skills resource nurse for direct care staff and works as staff RN as needed. In collaboration with Clinical Educators assists with planning, developing and supervising clinical orientation of staff. Assists with other staff education on an as needed basis.

Plans, coordinates and directs quality, compassionate care by maintaining standards of professional nursing practice and creating positive therapeutic relationships with patients/families. Supports team members by articulating and demonstrating expected standards of care as an informal leader and encouraging team members through supporting their contributions.

• Communicates routinely with department manager, preceptors and educator to assess ongoing needs and troubleshoot issues.
• Evaluates assignments of orientees to ensure adequate exposure and practice of various care activities.
• Works alongside new team members and provides direct supervision and coaching in skill performance and patient care activities on a daily basis.
• Works flexible shifts to accommodate needs of orientees.
• In collaboration with Clinical educator and manager, assigns new staff to appropriate preceptors.
• Works directly with department manager to determine department needs.
• In conjunction with Clinical Education, assists with validation of annual staff competencies and other educational activities as needed.
• Assists with planning clinical experiences for all new staff to the Department.
• Provides clinical expertise, support and feedback to facilitate the advancement of clinical skills and evidence based practice.
• Assists in performance improvement (PI) activities by serving on PI teams as warranted, assisting with PI measures and supporting and implementing changes necessary for improvement.
• Serves as subject matter expert though constant awareness of policies, procedures, protocols, maintaining competencies, and attending continuing education events.

DCH Standards

• Maintains performance, patient and employee satisfaction and financial standards as outlined in the performance evaluation.
• Identifies and reduces unsafe practices that may result in harm to patients, visitors, and patients.
• Performs essential job functions in a manner that ensures the safety of patients, visitors, and patients.
• Must adhere to all DCH Health System policies and procedures.
• Performs compliance requirements as outlined in the Employee Handbook
• All other duties as assigned.
• Recognizes and takes appropriate action to reduce risks and hazards to promote safety for patients, visitors, and employees.
• Must adhere to the DCH Behavioral Standards including creating positive relationships with patients/families, coworkers, colleagues and with self.

Registered Nurse with current Alabama or Multistate License required. Minimum 2 years’ experience as a registered nurse required. Specialty specific nursing experience preferred in applied area. Customer service abilities including effective listening skills, critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with the minimal supervision in a fast paced environment. Must be able to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English.

Acute Care – Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) required.

WORKING CONDITIONS

WORK CONTEXT

• Address conflict and stressful situation
• Must be able to communicate clearly and accurately
• Includes possible exposure to human body fluids, disease, infection, lab chemicals and hazardous materials and/or cleaning solutions
• Requires decision making that will affect others
• Must be meet time pressure and time lines
• Must be able to use electronic mail, telephone and texting
• Must be able to work in groups
• Dealing with unpleasant or physically aggressive personalities
• Demonstrate leadership skills
• Requires wearing of common protective and safety equipment such as gloves, safety glasses, mask, gowns, etc.
• Ability to delegate to team members and students
• Physical presence onsite is essential.
• Must be able to perform structured and unstructured work
• Communicate with different personalities and engage in face to face discussion

PHYSICAL FACTORS

• Must be able to reach reasonable distances in any direction
• Medium work. Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Must be able to run in an emergency
• Must be able to tolerate prolonged periods of standing and walking
• Must be able to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation
• Must have the ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull and carry objects
• Must be able to stand, walk, kneel, bend, sit and stoop
• Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range.
• Must be able to move fingers in a coordinated manner and must be able to feel and perceive temperature, texture, shape and size with fingertips
• Must possess stamina to work typical shifts of the applied area

Responsible to complete all aspects of care for assigned patient load including evaluations, formulating plan of care, collaboration of care plans with patient/family/other disciplines, performing therapeutic interventions, education, and meeting all documentation requirements outlined in department

• Collaborates and coordinates patients care plans with patient/family and other care providers.
• May assist with staff competencies.
• Completes all documentation requirements in the established time frame.
• Maintains involvement in department and hospital activities.
• Review, collect and evaluate relevant clinical data.
• Participates in patient/family teaching.
• Perform therapeutic procedures for clients as outlined in patient’s plan of care.
• Assist in departmental planning, staff training, performance improvement, and clinical service development.
• Maintain clinical and professional competency.
• Attends in service programs and departmental or hospital meetings.
• Responsible for supervision of all care delivered by assistants or aides, communicating routinely as to patient needs/goals
• Shares experience by mentoring students, new employees, volunteers and presenting in services.
• Provides feedback to the Manager.
• Formulate and implement an appropriate patient care plan based on patient needs and best practice.
• Assist with departmental productivity by fulfilling individual work responsibilities and reporting significant variances in patient volume that may require manager adjustments to staffing.

DCH Standards

• Must adhere to the DCH Behavioral Standards including creating positive relationships with patients/families, coworkers, colleagues and with self.
• Maintains performance, patient and employee satisfaction and financial standards as outlined in the performance evaluation.
• All other duties as assigned.
• Performs compliance requirements as outlined in the Employee Handbook
• Requires use of electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software and intranet.
• Must adhere to all DCH Health System policies and procedures.

Current Alabama Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, or Speech & Language Pathology licensure Maintains active status with license in good standing with the state board or licensing agency. Can write legibly, speak and read English. Maintain current license in one of the previous listed clinical specialties. BLS Certification required.

WORK CONTEXT

• Must have normal vision and hearing or correctable to normal
• Must be reliable, responsible, dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
• Exposure to human bodily fluids, disease, infection and hazardous materials may occur. Common protective or safety equipment may be required in job task.
• Must be careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
• Must be able to analyze patient data to determine patient needs or treatment goals
• Must be able to tolerate prolonged periods of sitting and/or standing
• Must be pleasant with others on the job and display good nature, cooperative attitude.
• Must be able to exert almost continual physical effort such as pushing, pulling, bending, climbing, lifting, and walking.
• Must be able to enter patient or treatment data into computers
• Must be able to collaborate with others to plan or provide treatment

PHYSICAL FACTORS

• PT/OT/Speech
• Physical presence onsite is essential.
• Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range.
• Requirements
• Must be able to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Physical activities include Talking, hearing, bending, twisting, walking, running, kneeling, crouching, stooping, crawling, climbing, balancing, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, repetitive motion, standing, and/or using hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls.
• Heavy work. Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Light work. Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for light work.

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