Mount Desert Island Hospital
Location
Bar Harbor, Maine
The RN Care Coordinator will coordinate patient care across inpatient, outpatient, and community settings, ensuring safe, high-quality, and cost-effective transitions from acute care. This involves meeting patient medical, rehabilitative, and financial needs through collaboration with various stakeholders and establishing personalized health goals.
Candidates must possess a current Registered Nurse license in Maine and AHA BLS certification, along with 3-5 years of experience in acute care nursing, home health, or care management. Essential requirements include strong organizational, prioritization, and time management skills, self-motivation, computer proficiency, and experience managing chronic illness.
MDI Hospital and Birch Bay Retirement Village offer a competitive salary, robust medical/dental/vision/life insurance, identity theft protection program, matching retirement plan, ample paid time off, a comprehensive award winning wellness program with reimbursement incentives, generous tuition reimbursement, and continuing education benefits. Some positions may qualify for a sign on bonus and relocation assistance. EEO Statement: MDI Hospital and Birch Bay Retirement Village provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, age, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, gender, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, national origin, veteran status, and other classifications protected by applicable state and local non-discrimination laws.
Education, Training or Certifications Required: Current professional licensure as Registered Nurse in Maine. AHA BLS certification. Experience Required: 3-5 years experience in acute care nursing, home health or care management. Ability to organize, prioritize and multi-task. Strong time management skills. Self-motivated. Computer proficiency Ability to communicate well with team, patients and family Experience managing those with chronic illness, behavior modification, goal setting, and education. Care management experience preferred. Special Requirements: 1. Valid Maine driver’s license and daily access to reliable and insured vehicle 2. Must have organizational skills, the ability to self-motivate, and the ability to prioritize duties 3. Proficient computer literacy including, but not limited to, electronic medical records, electronic data entry, report/data generation and retrieval. Ability to learn multiple system software. Ability to use Microsoft Word, Windows, Excel 4. Ability to use basic office equipment: phones, computers, fax machine, scanners, copiers, calculator. 5. Must be able to support the organizations mission, vision, and values 6. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively 7. Ability to maintain effective work relationships and to work collaboratively with the health care team 8. Ability to develop a collaborative therapeutic alliance with individuals Cognitive Requirements: 1. Emotional maturity 2. Critical Thinking ability 3. Reading, writing, and mathematics 4. Ability to analyze data and reports 5. Ability to develop plans, procedures, goals, strategies or processes 6. Versatility, flexibility, and willingness to work within constantly changing priorities and health care environment Physical Demands: 1. Able to sit, stand, walk for minimum 8-hour shifts. May occ. need to work in excess of 8 hr. shift. May require walking outside to various buildings on campus. 2. Work weekend rotations. 3. Able to carry 20 lbs. 4. Drive to practice sites, visit sites, meetings 5. Ability to sit for long periods of time. Ability to reach, bend, stoop, squat or twist repeatedly throughout the day. 6. Prolonged time on telephone and computer. 7. Adequate hearing and vision (with or without correction). Position requires hand and finger dexterity.
1. Potential for exposure to blood/body fluids and communicable diseases. 2. High stress potential. 3. Frequent use of VDT. 4. Work in close proximity to coworkers or other members of the health care team.
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