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Job Description:
The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care of patients. The staff RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice and coordination of care with other health team members.ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Assesses, directs and coordinates transfers and admissions from physician offices, hospitals, and other healthcare settings to the most appropriate accepting service, facility, and level of care.
2. Facilitates patient placement by assessing patient diagnosis, acuity and location, applicable risk factors and unit criteria/bed availability.
3. Collaborates with the facility departments, medical staff, nursing staff, and leadership to promote appropriate, timely patient placement so that patient care is not delayed. Collaborates with facility staff to identify and communicate bed capacity issues.
4. Leverages capacity dashboards and other real-time indicators to predict future patient placement pressure points and participates in the execution of surge-capacity protocols; and initiating interventions, within scope of practice, to accelerate patient flow or other mitigating barriers to optimal throughput.
5. Assists with all aspects of patient logistics to include pre-registration, transportation, and bed planning; collects unit specific data, and information needed to access and place patients appropriately.
6. Adheres to regulatory compliance with all Command Center operations, including Stark, EMTALA, and any other pertinent to Call Center activities. Maintains current knowledge of regulatory requirements impacting operations of the Command Center.
7. Provides timely and accurate transfer and admission documentation.
8. Works collaboratively with ourproviders and key stakeholdersin the development and maintenance of transfer and admission pathways for our patients.
9. Delegates as needed to the Transfer Center Tech and EMS Liaison.
10. Promotes mission, vision, and values of Intermountain Health, and abides by service behavior standards.
11. Performs other duties as assigned.
12. May be required to be placed on-call during a regularly scheduled shift.
Minimum QualificationsASN from an accredited program; BSN within 4 years
- Current Montana RN license
- Current BLS certification endorsed by the American Heart Association
- One year of nursing experience in a comparable setting, preferred
Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum 5years RN experience in either ED, ICU and/or 5 years acute care inpatient nursing.
- Critical Care or ED background. Hospital Supervisor, Charge Nurse or previous transfer center experience. Experience with hospital throughput or capacity management. Experience with Command Center operations, knowledge of Epic.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements list must be representative of the knowledge, skills, minimum education, training, licensure, experience, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Demonstrates expertise and resourcefulness in level of care requirements, advanced nursing assessments, bed capacity management, service line capabilities, and acceptance pathways by care site.
- Demonstrates expertise in development, implementation and evaluation of specific transfer and bed management program.
- Demonstrates a high degree of critical thinking, problem solving and n
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