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Join Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital is a proud Magnet Hospital awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice.  On our team, you will provide stellar care at one of the top healthcare organizations in the nation.  

Fairview Hospital is part of the Integrated Network Cancer Program, now proud to have received the Outstanding Achievement Award by the American College of Surgeons, Commission on Cancer. The RN Care Coordinator provides ongoing disease management, proactive patient outreach, and education/coaching to support self-management and reduce avoidable emergency department visits and hospital readmissions. This role closely monitors patient progress toward care goals, facilitates smooth transitions across care settings, and contributes to improved patient satisfaction. 

A caregiver in this position works days from 8:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. 

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary care team across the continuum of care for high-risk patients to develop goals, plan interventions and maximize patient outcomes. 

• Provide care and disease management coordination.  

• Identify patients in the specialty care practice that have ongoing coordination needs and conduct targeted outreach.  

• Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments that include disease/age-specific, medical, behavioral, pharmacy, social and end of life needs of each patient.  

• Inform and work with patients and their families regarding coordination of their care, provide education and coaching, monitor patient compliance with their care plan, perform reassessments regarding patient progress toward goals, and update plan of care.  

• Serve as a liaison and advocate for patients and families.  

• Assist in managing transitions of care across care settings, ensuring optimal communication and planning.  

• Identify barriers, facilitate solutions, and connect others to community resources.  

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Graduate from an accredited school of Professional Nursing 

• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) 

• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross 

• Three to five years of nursing experience 

• Any registered nurse or advanced practice nurse must obtain a cancer specific certification or demonstrate ongoing qualifying education within the timeframe of the facilities accreditation cycle, if they work in medical oncology, radiation oncology, cancer center or cancer clinic and/or administer chemotherapy within an accredited Cleveland Clinic facility 

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include: 

• Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN) 
• Oncology experience
• RN care coordinator experience

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
• May requires some exposure to communicable diseases or bodily fluids.
• 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 (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures. 

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

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