[Hiring] Clinical Documentation Specialist III PRN @Cooper University Hospital

Role Description

Responsible for ensuring the overall quality and completeness of medical record documentation.

• Facilitates modifications to clinical documentation through concurrent interaction with physicians, nursing staff, other patient caregivers, and Health Information coding staff.
• Supports timely, accurate, and complete documentation of clinical information used for measuring and reporting physician and hospital outcomes.
• Educates all members of the patient care team on an ongoing basis.
• Professional team player, able to communicate well with others on all levels.
• Regular significant contacts with other personnel throughout and outside the hospital.
• Contacts may be in person, by telephone, or through correspondence.
• Flexible with a working knowledge of all areas of adult medicine.
• Occasional lifting/carrying up to fifteen pounds, as well as reaching, stretching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, standing, walking, and pushing/pulling to move and file medical records alone or in carts.
• Ability to sit for long periods of time, manual dexterity, and mobility for extensive use of computer screen, keyboard, copy and facsimile machines, reader/printer, and other office equipment.
• Adequate to perform essential functions of the job with the type of judgments and potential consequences outlined above.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of medical record documentation requirements coding guidelines.
• Related computer knowledge of Epic a plus.

Requirements

• RN preferred or CCS, CPC, or RHIT preferred.
• NJ-RN License (Registered Nurse) preferred CCS, CPE, or RHIT preferred.

Special Requirements

• Essential mental abilities: good critical thinking skills, able to assess, evaluate, and teach.
• Requires excellent observation skills, analytical thinking, problem solving, computer skills, good verbal and written communication.
• This position will require 16 hours per week.

Salary

• Salary Min: USD $41.00
• Salary Max: USD $70.00