Registered Nurse Assessment Coordinator pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 30425
- Class code
- 30425
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- P4
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Registered Nurse Assessment Coordinator is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 30425.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
The Commonwealth job specification for this class is published by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration. The passages below are quoted from it as published, not paraphrased, and cut to their opening sentences; the full specification is the authority on duties and qualifications. It was last revised 09/05/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is professional nursing work in healthcare assessment and development of individualized nursing care plans for residents of a veterans’ long-term care facility within the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. An employee in this job performs federally mandated healthcare assessments of residents in a veterans’ long-term care facility and formulates individualized nursing plans of care. Work involves performing individualized nursing assessments and reassessments through documentation review, visual observations, discussions with direct care staff, and interviews with residents and family members; coding and recording health care assessment data utilizing a standardized assessment instrument; coordinating and participating with members of the facilities’ interdisciplinary treatment teams to develop comprehensive treatment plans specific to each resident; providing assessment d ...
Examples of the work
• Follows the assessment procedures outlined in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) to conduct comprehensive healthcare assessments upon admission of residents to a commonwealth-operated veterans’ home/center. • Utilizes CMS’ Minimum Data Set (MDS) to code and record assessment data gathered from resident healthcare documentation review, visual observations, discussions with direct care staff, and interviews with residents and family members. • Plans, coordinates, and completes the comprehensive MDS through members of the interdisciplinary treatment teams such as nursing, social services, dietary, activities, and therapy staff.
Minimum qualifications
• One year of clinical nursing experience in a long-term care facility including the performance of MDS-based nursing assessments and the development of individualized nursing care plans; or • Possession of an active certification as a Resident Assessment Coordinator - Certified (RAC-CT) as issued by the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordination (AANAC).
Special requirements
• All positions require active authorization to practice as a Registered Nurse in Pennsylvania. • All employees possessing an active temporary practice permit must obtain licensure as a Registered Nurse within the one (1) year period defined by the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing.
Quoted from the Commonwealth job specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration publishes this figure in Classification and Pay Plan (online, current annual salary ranges). Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
The Commonwealth also links this class code to its own job title and specification. That page is the official description of the classification; this page publishes its pay range.
The listed pay scale is available in the Commonwealth's current ST schedule.