Location: Dickson, Tennessee, United States
Industry: Acute Care
Schedule: Full-Time, Nights, Rotating Weekends (every other weekend)
Pay: USD $30.75/hour – $46.15/hour (based on experience)
Additional Pay: Night shift differential $3.50/hour; Weekend differential $6.00/hour
Sign-on Bonus/Relocation: Case by case
Overview
The Clinical Nurse Coordinator (CNC) ensures and delivers high-quality, patient-centered care and coordinates unit functions during the designated shift. In collaboration with nursing leadership, the CNC directs, monitors, and evaluates nursing practice in accordance with established policies and procedures, serves as a clinical resource, supports service recovery, and helps drive unit performance and patient experience outcomes. This overnight role functions as both Charge Nurse and Assistant Nurse Manager and serves as the go-to leader for staffing and operational needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate patient flow, admissions, transfers, and discharges to support safe throughput and quality care.
- Provide shift leadership, clinical oversight, and real-time problem-solving for staffing and patient care needs.
- Support a patient-first culture; lead service recovery and address concerns promptly.
- Partner with leaders and subject matter experts to strengthen teamwork, outcomes, and unit service standards.
- Participate in quality and safety monitoring; reinforce evidence-based practice and policy compliance.
- Assist with interviewing, selection, onboarding, coaching, performance feedback, conflict resolution, and corrective action as needed.
- Help build schedules and manage labor to align with acuity and productivity guidelines.
- Support inventory control and assist with supplies/equipment readiness.
- Maintain clinical competence, including delivering babies and scrubbing in the OR as needed.
Required Qualifications
- Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in Tennessee or compact nursing license.
- Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) required.
- Minimum 2 years of Labor & Delivery RN experience required.
- Any length of previous leadership experience in Women’s Services, L&D, NICU, or Mother-Baby units required.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) required within 30 days of start date.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) required within 1 year of start date.
- Ability to work nights and rotating weekends and to lead independently during overnight operations.
