Clinical Nurse (RN) - Transfer Center - 0.9 FTE, 12 HR, Night Shift

What You Will Do

• Contacts Case Manager at insurance or review organization to establish case management.
• Captures emergency admission clinical issues as needed.
• Collaborates with staff of other hospital departments, including Medical Communications, Case Management, Social Work, patient care units, and outpatient clinics to ensure that the patient's needs are met from admission through discharge.
• Documents findings and recommendations for accepted transfers or transports.
• Conducts nursing assessments to determine the appropriate level of care at the hospital (i.e., critical care, acute care, observation or outpatient) and the need for specialized equipment, isolation or other patient needs; provides nursing assessment information to patient care unit or clinic accepting the transfer or transport and coordinates the arrival time.
• Engages in expert-level clinical decision-making to determine patient acuity, need for transfer, appropriate means of transfer, appropriate level of care during transfer or transport, and sorts through all patient information and formulates an accurate picture of the patient and their condition for the hospital's physicians and nurses.
• Provides nursing care to patients with the more acute or complex conditions or in emergencies in accordance with Transfer Center protocols.
• Screens patient for anticipated discharge planning needs, such as acceptance of patient back to referring health care institutions, skilled nursing facility (SNF), and/or other community resources to ensure patient and family needs are met.
• Serves as an expert, resource, and consultant to other nurses, physicians, departments and families of patients.
• Sorts through all patient information and formulates an accurate and complete picture of the patient and the patient's condition for the hospital's physicians and nurses; confers with Admitting Physician when questions or issues arise regarding medical necessity of transfer; confers with Social Workers or Case Managers regarding patient and family psychosocial needs.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
• Five (5) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience in critical care required.