Under the administrative direction of the Practice Manager and clinical direction of the providers, the Nursing Coordinator is responsible to provide nursing care and coordination of services to our patients by serving as a liaison between providers and patients. The Coordinator's assignments include, but are not limited to, triaging phone calls, medication refills, scheduling of procedures, obtaining authorizations, and adjustments following written protocols, and patient education. Performs clinical duties as assigned.
Minimum: Graduate of a Registered Nurse Program
Preferred: Bachelor of Degree in Nursing
Current PA RN license, Healthcare Provider CPR, and Act 33/73 clearances
Minimum: None
Preferred: Endocrinology or Diabetes Management experience. One year RN experience in a practice or healthcare facility.
Other Requirements - N/A
Sedentary to Light
0-3.5
Light house cleaning, washing dishes, serving food, food shopping, sitting, standing, computer work
Medium
3.6-6.3
House work (mopping, scrubbing), health club exercising, treadmill work, stretching, yoga, walk/run-play with children, aerobic class, dancing, carrying bucket/wood, autobody repair, shoveling, snow, golf (carrying clubs).
Heavy to Very Heavy
>6.4
Calisthenics (push up, pull up, sit up, vigorous effort), carrying groceries upstairs, shoveling coal, bailing hay, fire fighting, sawing by hand, splitting wood.
Independence Health System offers patients nationally recognized quality care in cardiology, orthopedics, palliative care, and maternity as well as a broad range of surgical, medical, emergency, and behavioral health services, and an extensive network of primary care physicians. With five hospitals, nearly 1,000 healthcare providers and more than 7,000 employees, Independence Health System serves a 10-county region and is the largest employer in Butler and Westmoreland counties.
Identified locally as a Healthiest Employer in Western Pennsylvania since 2011, Excela Health is ranked among the nation’s Healthiest 100 Workplaces, and recognized as a Community Health Champion by the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania.
