RN ER ED - Clinical Nurse Coordinator

Work Schedule: 3 days per week, 7a-7p/Rotating Weekends

Take the next step in your nursing leadership career as a Clinical Nurse Coordinator (RN) within the high-acuity Emergency Department at HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast in Pasadena, TX. In this pivotal frontline leadership role, you will bridge the gap between clinical excellence and unit administration by managing daily shift operations, optimizing patient throughput, and mentoring a dedicated emergency team. Our full-service, 24/7 department holds a coveted provisional adult Level III Trauma Center status and an "A" Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group. It is the only facility in Pasadena recognized by the American College of Cardiology as an accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI and Resuscitation.

 Operating within an award-winning facility ranked by Healthgrades among America’s 250 Best Hospitals™ and celebrated with the Critical Care Excellence Award™, you will oversee a department that holds consecutive Patient Safety Excellence Awards™ alongside elite national certifications as a Primary Stroke Center. Your shift-level leadership will directly drive clinical outcomes within a system highly honored by the American Heart Association with the Coronary Artery Disease Gold Plus Receiving and NSTEMI Gold performance awards. Joining this team means advancing your leadership path within an organization recognized globally by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies®.

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Clinical Nurse Coordinator (CNC) ensures and delivers high quality, patient-centered care and coordination of all functions in the unit/department during the designated shift. In collaboration with other members of the management team, the CNC directs, monitors, and evaluates nursing care in accordance with established policies/procedures, serves as a resource person for staff, and models a commitment to the organization’s vision/mission/values to support an unparalleled patient experience and clinical outcomes that contribute to overall departmental performance.

What you will do in this role: 

• Assists with admission and discharge processes to ensure efficient throughput and high quality, patient-centered care.
• Participates in the ongoing assessment of the quality of patient care services provided in the unit, in collaboration with other members of the management team.
• Collaborates with subject matter experts and other managers to create an environment of teamwork that supports improved outcomes and service.
• Supports a patient-first philosophy and engages in service recovery when necessary.
• Supports the efforts of the facility to improve engagement by operationalizing current nursing strategies, including employee rounding, hourly rounds, and other initiatives.
• Provides recommendations related to interviewing, selecting, and training new staff. Recommends and implements courses of action, including training and development, conflict resolution, personnel policy compliance, completion of performance evaluations, and/or disciplinary actions to ensure a competitively better organization.
• Assists with staff scheduling. Manages all practical aspects of staff labor in accordance with patient care needs and established productivity guidelines.
• Supports proper inventory control and assists with managing supplies and equipment.

What qualifications you will need: 

• Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing is required. BSN is preferred.
• Current Registered Nurse License in the State of Texas or Multi-State Compact License (Employees with RN Compact License are required to obtain Texas RN License within 90 days of hire date).
• Current BLS, ACLS, and PALS Certification are required.
• NIH Stroke Scale must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
• Trauma Nursing Core Course must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
• 1 year of RN working experience in acute hospital ED required.

Level I, Level II, Level II, Trauma Care, Emergency Department, Triage, ESI scoring, Rapid response, critical care, mass casualty, surge capacity, decontamination, airway, intubation, defibrillation, cardioversion, chest tube, central line, arterial, intraosseous, IO, focused assessment with sonography for trauma, FAST, massive transfusion, MTP, continuous cardiac, hemodynamic, monitoring, stroke, NIHSS, STEMI, ST-elevation myocardial infarction, sepsis, SANE, sexual assault, psychiatric, crisis intervention, CPI, overdose, toxicology, vasoactive, infusion, titration, tPA, TNK, thrombolytic, RSI, pyxis, Omnicell, ENPC, CEN, ED, shift operations, oversight, patient throughput, ED Flow Coordination, Staff Mentorship, Clinical Coaching, Resource Management, Staffing Allocation, Interdisciplinary Rounds, PI, performance improvement, HCAHPS, patient experience optimization, incident reporting, root cause analysis, evidence-based

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

"Nurses are essential to the delivery of healthcare and serve as its foundation. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to equipping nurses with the tools and resources they need to deliver exceptional patient care, championing the profession, and supporting the advancement of nursing’s future."

Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC

Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive

HCA Healthcare

HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast is a full-service 340+ bed acute care hospital in Pasadena, Texas. We have been a leader of medical care in Pasadena for more than 50 years. With board-certified physicians, registered nurses and expert technicians, the community has come to rely on us for top-quality, comprehensive and compassionate healthcare. HCA Houston Southeast is the only hospital in Pasadena with both Chest Pain Center Accreditation with Primary PCI and Resuscitation by the American College of Cardiology and full accreditation by The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our Clinical Nurse Coordinator Emergency Room - ER RN opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing, apply today!