RN Care Coordinator - Cancer Center

                    

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Job Title

RN Care Coordinator - Cancer Center

                        

Location

Cleveland

                    

Facility

Fairview Hospital

                     

Department

Cancer Center Physician Suite-Fairview Hospital

                      

Job Code

T99128

                     

Shift

Days

                       

Schedule

8:00am-4:30pm

                       

Job Summary

                         

Job Details

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.  

The Moll Center at Cleveland Clinic focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of gynecologic cancers, which include cancers of the ovaries, cervix, uterus, vagina and vulva. They offer a range of services, from surgical and medical oncology to radiation therapy and provide access to clinical trials. As an RN Care Coordinator for the Cancer Center, you will work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary care team to support patients with complex, chronic, or specialty conditions across the continuum of care. In this role, you will conduct comprehensive assessments of patients’ clinical, social and behavioral needs to develop individualized care plans that promote wellness and improve outcomes. Serving as the primary point of contact for patients and families, you will ensure seamless communication, close care gaps and facilitate timely coordination of services. 

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

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary care team to develop goals, plan interventions and optimize outcomes for high-risk patients.

• Provide care and disease-management coordination.

• Identify patients in the specialty practice who require ongoing care coordination.

• Determine the scope and duration of involvement needed from the specialty care team and coordinator and identify the primary care team.

• Use assessment skills and risk-screening tools to identify patients needing care coordination.

• Conduct targeted outreach to high-risk patients (e.g., chronic illness, limited support, readmissions, ED visits, surgical episodes) to ensure timely, efficient care across the continuum.

• Use technological tools (registries, patient lists, care team tabs) to manage patient populations.

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

• Inform patients and families about their care coordination plan and communicate updates with the healthcare team.

• Work with interdisciplinary teams to establish goals and plan interventions.

• Monitor adherence to the care plan and reassess patient progress, updating the plan as needed.

• Ensure care gaps are closed for specialty, chronic disease, or surgical episodes.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for condition- or surgery-related needs and facilitate access to services.

• Coordinate all members of the patient care team.

• Act as liaison and patient advocate by addressing questions, concerns and care needs.

• Support transitions of care across settings, ensuring clear communication and planning.

• Identify barriers to care and facilitate solutions.

• Partner with other care coordination teams (primary care, social work, rehab, pharmacy, palliative care, etc.).

• Promote compliance with disease-specific care pathways.

• Assess patient and family knowledge, health literacy and readiness to change, using teach-back methods.

• Coach patients and families on self-management, including setting short- and long-term goals.

• Provide education on managing specialty or surgical conditions (pre-, peri- and postoperative), prevention and health maintenance.

• Educate and connect patients to care providers and community resources as appropriate.

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 (Inpatient or ambulatory)

• 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) 

• Specialty certification 

• Med/Surg 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. 

                       

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