Ambulatory Registered Nurse Coordinator

Spine Clinic

Why UT Southwestern?

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care and resources for our valued patients and employees. Ranked as the #1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth for the seventh consecutive year, we invite you to continue your healthcare career with us at UT Southwestern. You will discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for learning and advancement into leadership roles.

Job Summary

Join UT Southwestern as an Ambulatory Registered Nurse (RN) Coordinator within our Spine Clinic and help with our commitment to deliver compassionate care and all-around excellence. As a RN Coordinator, you will support the Spine Clinic by providing excellent patient education for the patient and their families, triaging, and supporting the clinic. This position will function as a team lead for the clinic and to make sure patient care coordination and surgeries/procedures are running efficiently.

At UT Southwestern, the possibilities to advance your career are limitless. We would love the opportunity to have you join the UT Southwestern Spine Clinic!

Experience and Education

Licensure as Registered Nurse by Board of Nurse Examiners for State of Texas and BLS certification by the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC) are required. Two (2) year of ambulatory clinical nursing experience is preferred. Strong communication skills and the ability to facilitate team based care.

Job Duties

* 1. Functions as team lead for a group of clinical staff (POD) assigned to specific patients to ensure efficient and effective patient care coordination of clinical procedures.

* Ensures all patient quality metrics are completed by staff during the clinic visit(s) per protocols by staff to meet ACO requirements.

* Assign clinical duties as needed to ensure effective workflows, patient care requirements are meet and clinical quality and safety measures are followed.

* Works with supervisor to ensure staff has been oriented and trained for duties assigned.

* Monitors patient registries for patients assigned to respective POD.

* Coordinate follow-up and assign duties to clinical staff for patients in POD registries in order to close care gaps as defined by the ambulatory clinical quality program.

* Monitors patient telephone requests and MyChart in-baskets for POD to ensure timely response to patient communications.

* Coordinates team assignments to effectively and efficiently respond to patient messages.

* Duties performed may include one or more of the following core functions: (a) Directly interacting with or caring for patients; (b) Directly interacting with or caring for human-subjects research participants; (c) Regularly maintaining, modifying, releasing or similarly affecting patient records (including patient financial records); or (d) Regularly maintaining, modifying, releasing or similarly affecting human-subjects research records.

* **Other Duties: Performs other duties as assigned.

Security

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information

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This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code *51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.