Northwest Nursing Careers

Critical Care

As a Critical Care nurse, you’ll work in an up-tempo environment while treating both Critical Care and Progressive Care patients. Across patient situations, you’ll have the opportunity to provide a wide range of treatments and help make a difference by bringing the highest level of care.

Sunnyside Medical Center specialties:

Inpatient Care Management

Our RN Care Coordinators work at the top of scope, taking bedside nursing skills to the next level serving as mentors, subject matter experts, and leaders in nursing. Utilization of the nursing process, gap analysis, communication of interventions for both short and long term success, excellent communication skills both verbally and written are core to providing successful patient outcomes as a care coordinator.

• They collaborate with an with interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, therapies, dieticians, and leaders to provide quality hospital care and develop a patient centered transition plan back to the community.
• They perform holistic intake assessments that inform development of the plan of care both acutely and for needs after discharge form the hospital.
• Concurrent utilization review and evaluation of progression is also part of the role to optimize medical and social supports for patients and their families while responsibly stewarding resources for the community as a whole.

Care management requires frequent, compassionate, but difficult conversations with patients and families about plans of care including timelines, recommendations, benefits, services, costs, and eligibility of available care options. Bedside nurses must become familiar, competent, and confident in having these conversations and working towards agreements with satisfactory results.