Registered Nurse, Per Diem, Bed Management, Atlantic Health Clinical Operations Center

About the role

Creates a working environment that promotes positive employee engagement, adherence to company policies, effective communications, collaboration, innovation, optimal productivity and continuous learning. Assures that systems are in place to ensure appropriate resources and competent team. Directs department operations on a continuous basis and advises management on operational and functional improvement opportunities. Identifies and implements ways to reduce and control capacity bottlenecks, as well as enhance capacity availability across the system and/or in the particular hospital.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates with PTC to optimize available beds across the system.
• Anticipates potential problem situations and intervenes to offset any adverse impact on the facility/unit and/or clinical operations.
• Recognizes emergent maintenance requirements and delegates the communications to the needs at the facilities level.
• Provides delegation for the prioritization of the discharging of patients during the hours of dispatch.
• Delegates Coordination between Beds and Dispatch to prioritize stat bed cleaning/transport requests based on bed request priorities.
• Fosters exceptional public relations for the team and organization across all sites; interacts with the administrator at the site as appropriate.
• Demonstrates the ability and delegates collaboration with the appropriate site specific administrative /clinical leadership to prioritize patient placement based on patient acuity and bed availability.
• Ability to provide administrative support to clinical Operations Dept.
• Conduct site-based bed rounds during high census, surge, and emergency/PACU boarders, contribute to the patient flow initiatives, assure beds are being identified in a timely fashion and patients placed appropriately according to the 15-minute bed placement rule.
• Delegates and monitors telephone etiquette and ensures calls are answered in a courteous manner; receives and communicates messages in a timely matter and can prioritize needs.
• Interacts with team members, coordinates dept Huddles and manages customers in a polite and timely manner.
• Reports to the Nurse Manager for Clinical Operations and escalates concerns or issues at the sites or within the team.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing required.
• Bachelors’ Degree and Masters Degree of Nursing preferred.
• All ASN must complete their BSN studies within five years of their start date.
• Current NJ (New Jersey) Registered Nurse License required.
• Basic Life Support required.
• 4+ years of experience in Emergency Department or Critical Care Nursing and/or relevant area.

Skills

• Exceptional public relations skills.
• Collaboration with administrative and clinical leadership.
• Ability to prioritize patient placement based on acuity and bed availability.
• Administrative support to clinical operations.
• Site-based bed rounds and patient flow initiatives.
• Effective communication and delegation skills.

Benefits

Includes medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, 403(b) retirement plan, PTO & paid sick leave, tuition assistance, advancement & academic advising, parental, adoption, surrogacy leave, backup and on-site childcare, well-being rewards, employee assistance program (EAP), fertility benefits, healthy pregnancy program, flexible spending & commuter accounts, pet, home & auto, identity theft and legal insurance.

Pay

Final compensation and benefit eligibility may vary by role and employment status and will be confirmed at the time of offer. Final compensation details will be provided upon offer.

Schedule

Details on the schedule will be provided upon offer.