Registered Nurse Transfer Center-Part Time-Evening Shift

About the role

This position is located on site at the Transfer Center-1300 Old Denbigh Blvd | Newport News, VA 23602. It involves working in collaboration with RHS Healthcare teams to assist with the transition of critical and non-critical patients to Riverside Health System's Acute and Emergency facilities and services. The role includes managing all inbound and outbound calls for critical transfers through the Riverside Transfer Center, performing critical and non-critical patient symptom triage through the Riverside Nurse Triage line, coordinating patient transport, facilitating direct inpatient and emergency department admits, consulting, and coordinating appropriate patient bed placement.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates ability to use clinical knowledge around clinical service lines, disease entities, and epidemiological issues that could affect transport, care, and placement while demonstrating a sense of urgency to facilitate patient throughput to assure patients receive consistent, competent, and ethical care.
• Adheres to critical and non-critical protocols, algorithms, policies, and procedures.
• Accurately completes all required clinical and quality documentation consistently per RHS standards and regulatory requirements.
• Performs critical and non-critical symptom-based triage through the Riverside Nurse line providing patient disposition from 911 to home care.
• Demonstrates understanding of diverse patient care populations and ability to modify education method to ensure patient/family comprehension.
• Collaborates with transfer team members, medical service transport coordinator, physician, bed management, and Transfer Center medical director, throughout the course of transfer or direct admission to ensure positive patient outcomes.
• Promotes a network of other Riverside hospitals sending and receiving facilities to facilitate transfers efficiently and timely.
• Communicates detailed information about patient status and demographic information when arranging critical and non-critical transport.

Qualifications

• Program Graduate, Registered Nurse (Required)
• Bachelors Degree, Nursing (Preferred)
• 3-4 years RN Experience in Acute Care setting (Required)
• 1 year Critical Care or emergency nursing (Preferred)

Skills and Abilities

• Transfer Center experience preferred
• Nurse Triage experience preferred
• Computer experience required
• Efficient at typing/keyboarding required

Benefits

Actual pay is determined based on job-related factors such as relevant experience, education, credentials, skills, internal equity, and business needs.

Schedule

Part Time Evening Shift Available. Irregular Shifts and Weekend Shifts are also available.

Pay

Hiring Range $38.60 - $53.08/Hourly

Benefits

Details about benefits can be found at Riverside Health System Careers Page.