Nurse (RN) Admissions Facilitator, Transfer Center

Primary Responsibilities

• Fosters a systematic awareness of the diversity that exists within the health system, including culture, ethnicity, gender and age, and promotes an environment that is sensitive to the needs of diverse populations.
• Works in compliance with Nursing Practice Guidelines which foster safe, cost effective and quality patient care.
• Maintains and displays knowledge of current professional and clinical issues and practices through participation in a professional organization and certification in the field of nursing.
• Uses evidence-based resources to implement necessary changes in the delivery of nursing care and/or nursing practice.
• Oversees clinical and administrative of patient flow and resource allocation throughout tertiary hospital inpatient areas.
• Anticipates, plans and implements strategies for changes in patient flow areas.
• Works with support departments, nursing personnel, case managers, and physicians to facilitate timely admissions and transfers within Emergency Departments, PACUs, ICUs, Cath Labs, Medical/Surgical Units, and Clinics.
• Covers daily meetings and coordinates admissions plan.
• Oversees/performs the assignment of tertiary patients to units and rooms based on clinical appropriateness and resource allocation.
• Participates and initiates quality improvement activities related to the patient flow throughout the health system.
• Assesses Emergency Department and holding area workflows.
• Serves as a conduit for all transfers.
• In collaboration with hospital and system leadership and physician stakeholders, facilitates critical bed capacity meetings for tertiary sites.
• Resolves and identifies creative or alternative plans with bed capacity constraints.
• Assesses actual and potential bed availability.
• Consistently monitors and evaluates patient census and bed availability.
• Confers with physicians and nursing managers/directors to facilitate optimal patient care on accurate assessment of data.
• Continuous, iterative triage of patients for bed assignment requiring all levels of care, including but not limited to ICU care, transfers, and patients with complicated medical problems.
• Facilitates transfers from all referral sources.
• Communicates bed status between tertiary sites on an as-needed basis in order to serve incoming Transfer Volume to the local leadership.
• Communicates all pertinent issues to Nursing Leader.
• Maintains and updates the patient flow database.
• Collaborates with leadership at community facilities for coordination of care and community level transfer and load balancing.
• Interface with multi-disciplinary stakeholders to drive quality patient outcomes for high-acuity and high-need patients.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Licenses: Registered Nurse required and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required.
• Experience: 3-5 years’ related work experience required.
• Professional Competence: Experience demonstrating professional competence and leadership.
• Broad View: Broad view of system operations.
• Computer Systems: Experience with computer systems required, including web-based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.