Registered Nurse (Transfer)- Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute Access Center, Days- VUH

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (Transfer) position at the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute Access Center is responsible for coordinating the scheduling, admission, and transfer of emergent, urgent, and elective patients into an accepting facility. This role ensures patients receive the appropriate level of care and timely transport. The nurse utilizes clinical decision-making, critical thinking, and EHR proficiency to facilitate patient flow and educate healthcare staff on admission and transfer processes. The position requires adherence to departmental procedures and policies, ensuring accurate data entry and protection of patient information.

Requirements

LIC-Registered Nurse - Licensure-Others
Relevant Work Experience
Graduate of an approved discipline specific program

Nice To Haves

Nursing Patient Education (Intermediate)
Nursing Patient Assessment & Evaluation (Intermediate)
Care Planning (Intermediate)
Leadership (Intermediate)

Responsibilities

Coordinates components related to the scheduling/admission/transfer or consult of emergent, urgent and elective patients into an accepting facility from referring hospitals, clinics, urgent care clinics and physician offices with appropriate level of care and timely, appropriate mode of transport.
Systematic processing of patient acuity and expert level of clinical decision making, to facilitate the patient flow through the continuum of care.
Uses critical thinking skills to make recommendations that promotes the best potential patient outcome based on clinical information, patient/physician preferences, and the capability of both transferring and receiving facilities.
Screens admissions, using approved criteria, for appropriateness of level of care orders and bed assignments.
Coordinate patient scheduling needs for appointments and perioperative procedures.
Educates nurses, physicians and ancillary staffs in level of care and admission/transfer issues/ opportunities.
Proficiency in EHR (Electronic Health Record) data entry, telephone and office systems, as required to support operations, while ensuring accurate, timely data entry and the protection of Protected Health Information (PHI).
Stays up to date with all departmental procedures, policies and communications to ensure adherence of appropriate process for final referral resolution.