About The Position

The Admit Discharge Nurse is a registered nurse who functions in a supportive role for the nursing and the hospital to assure compliance with regulatory standards for staffing and patient monitoring, and to facilitate patient movement throughout the organization for focused on timely admissions, transfers, and discharges. This role plays a crucial role in patient throughput thus reducing holds in the ED and creating additional inpatient capacity by assuring timely discharge of patients. Responsible for initiating admission assessments, transporting patients from department to department, participating in patient monitoring for tests and procedures, provides discharge teaching and assures prompt discharges of patients once discharge order received. This role requires strong communication skills, clinical expertise, data analytics, and empathic responses to monitor and support patients during transport, during procedures, and prior to discharge from the facility.

Requirements

  • Current Registered Nurse licensed to practice in the state of California
  • Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification issued by American Heart Association.
  • Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification by American Heart Association or equivilent
  • Minimum 3 year clinical experience in an acute care setting, medical surgical, critical care, or care coordination experience.
  • Microsoft Suite Proficiency with Word, Excel, spreadsheets, Powerpoint.
  • Management of assaultive behavior and deescalation techniques within 6 months of hire.

Responsibilities

  • assure compliance with regulatory standards for staffing and patient monitoring
  • facilitate patient movement throughout the organization for focused on timely admissions, transfers, and discharges
  • initiating admission assessments
  • transporting patients from department to department
  • participating in patient monitoring for tests and procedures
  • provides discharge teaching
  • assures prompt discharges of patients once discharge order received

Benefits

  • Tuition Reimbursement.
  • Career development opportunities across UHS and our 300+ locations!
  • Diverse programming to expand your experience.
  • HealthStream online learning catalogue with plenty of free CEU courses.
  • Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off.
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans.
  • 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan.
  • Pet Insurance.
  • SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program
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