Patient Throughput Coordinator RN - Full-Time - DAYS

Position Overview

Shift: 8:00am - 8:30pm (rotating weekends and holidays)

Essential Functions

• Follows up with and intervenes regarding delays in discharge
• Attends IDR’s on their dedicated campus
• Is the overall collector of patient information regarding throughput
• Works closely with interdisciplinary care team members including but not limited to logistics, floor staff, LIP’s, Care Management, Therapy Departments, Administration, Nursing Unit Leadership, and others
• Oversees the patient flow process in its entirety and ensures completion of tasks resulting in a shorter length of stay and earlier discharges
• Provides daily operational oversight and decision making of patient flow throughout Capital Health by collaborating with Patient Access, LIPs, Unit Management and Staff, Ancillary Department Staff, Care Management, Logistic Department staff and other areas as needed
• Collaborates with physician, case manager, and bed-tracking to ensure timely coordination of discharge and transfer
• Communicates and collaborates with physicians regarding transfer and discharge orders
• Affords assistance to primary Staff RN, as needed, regarding outstanding issues related to patient transfer and discharge
• Assesses patient status and acuity to facilitate the efficient movement of patients through the hospital system by prioritizing inpatient admissions, critical care admissions, and internal or external transfers
• Serves as an expert clinical resource for patient placement by ensuring smooth functioning of the Logistics Center process to reduce wait times and avoid unnecessary movements of patients
• Serves as contact for bed management as it relates to admissions
• Ensures throughput on units and compliance with transfer process through management of people and process
• Delegates tasks appropriately and employs resources as needed to ensure high quality and efficient care related to patient flow
• Identifies and anticipates barriers to discharge and patient flow activities and works to ensure throughput in ED, inpatient units and compliance with transfer process through management of people, metrics and process improvement
• Manages patient flow using Logistic Dashboard data, rounding, and daily metrics
• Communicates openly and effectively by providing ongoing education to the health care team on the overall patient flow strategy on rationale for patient placement
• Uses effective and appropriate communication styles with patients, significant others, visitors, staff and professional colleagues
• Promotes team momentum, enthusiasm, and pride
• Performs other duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements

• Education: Graduate of accredited school of nursing. BSN preferred.
• Experience: Four years of experience in an acute care setting. Previous Telemetry experience required. Critical Care experience preferred.
• Other Credentials: AHA BLS - Healthcare Provider, Registered Nurse - NJ
• Knowledge and Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills. Excellent customer service orientation skills necessary to communicate effectively and utilize effective conflict resolution and negotiation skills to support a cohesive multidisciplinary team and ensure optimal patient outcomes. Critical thinking, logic and reasoning skills to address complex situations. Demonstrates responsiveness to needs of patients, other care team members, and self.
• Special Training: Possesses computer skills, including data input into multiple systems, working knowledge of windows based applications such as Microsoft Office.
• Mental, Behavioral and Emotional Abilities: Ability to organize and prioritize, in a fast-paced environment. Ability to leverage interdepartmental relationships to remove obstacles. Ability to learn hospital based programs for access to lab results, bed-tracking, and other areas. Able to abstract medical information.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Frequent physical demands include: Sitting, Standing, Walking, Carry objects, Keyboard use/repetitive motion
• Occasional physical demands include: Lifting Floor to Waist 25 lbs. Lifting Waist Level and Above 25 lbs.
• Continuous physical demands include: Continuous physical demands include:

Benefits

• Medical Plan
• Prescription drug coverage & In-House Employee Pharmacy
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Healthcare FSA
• Dependent Care FSA
• Retail Savings and Investment Plan
• Basic Group Term Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Supplemental Group Term Life & Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
• Disability Benefits – Long Term Disability (LTD)
• Disability Benefits – Short Term Disability (STD)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Commuter Transit
• Commuter Parking
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Voluntary Life Spouse
• Voluntary Life Employee
• Voluntary Legal Services
• Voluntary Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Voluntary Identity Theft Insurance
• Voluntary Pet Insurance
• Paid Time-Off Program