Dir Care Logistics

Responsibilities

• Develops standards of performance, policies and procedures for designated areas of responsibility.
• Organizes the areas of responsibility in accordance with administrative guidelines in order to provide specified nursing and patient care services to meet organizational, regulatory privacy and Medical Staff guidelines.
• Maintains safe work environment and culture, promotes excellence in customer care.
• Oversees planning, growth and strategic initiatives for assigned departments.
• Functions in an advisory capacity to the Chief Nursing Officer in evaluating proposed changes as they relate to these departments.
• Directs implementation and ensures compliance with standards of nursing and professional practice that promotes optimum health care delivery along the lifecycle continuum.
• Captures and analyzes data, drives performance improvement with metrics associated with the responsibilities and functions in the department.
• Manages bed control, transfer admission center, transport, order coordinators and capacity coordinators to ensure optimal patient throughput.
• Ensures nursing supervisors are accountable for optimizing patient throughput during off shifts and on weekends.
• Has hospital wide visibility of patient status and discharge plans to maximize throughput.
• Sets up patients in appropriate nursing units to optimize care and reduce lateral transfers.
• Collaborates with physicians regarding level of care (ICU, med/surg, etc.) and discharges.
• Understands patient discharge status and initiates nursing unit prioritization of discharges based off bed needs for incoming patients.
• Works with case management, social work and inpatient units to prioritize patient discharges based off Geometric Mean Length of Stay (GMLOS) and similar indicators.
• Safeguards the nursing units and capacity coordinators to facilitate patient placement.
• Balances the goal to discharge patients with the goal to minimize patient readmissions.
• Collaborates with administrators as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in nursing, healthcare administration, or closely related field Required
• Masters degree in Nursing, Health Care Administration, or related field Preferred
• 7 years of nursing experience and minimum of three years of progressive management experience Required
• RN - Registered Nurse - Georgia State Licensure and/or NLC/eNCL Multistate Licensure Current Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Georgia Upon Hire Required