RN Inpatient Flow Coordinator

Piedmont Healthcare Inc.•Conyers, GA

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About The Position

Piedmont Rockdale is a 161-bed, acute care, not-for-profit community hospital in Conyers that has provided compassionate, patient-centered care to Rockdale County and surrounding communities since 1954. We offer 24-hour emergency care, plus most major medical, surgical and diagnostic services. RESPONSIBLE FOR: Coordinate the movement of patients as it relates to admissions, transfers, and discharges and act as a liaison with Medical Staff to ensure that patient care is delivered in an efficient and safe manner.

Requirements

Graduate of nursing program.
3 years experience working as a Registered Nurse in an acute care setting Required
Competent to work in multiple areas including acute and critical care settings
Experience with conscious sedation for working at Piedmont Fayette Hospital required.
Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision and have excellent assessment and prioritization skills.
Current License in the State of Georgia as a Registered Nurse or NLC/eNLC Multistate License.
BLS certification through American Heart Association

Nice To Haves

3 years of leadership responsibility preferred.

Responsibilities

Assists executive leadership in establishing strategic outcomes and coordinates entity-wide performance assessment and improvement activities related to patient flow.
Functions in an advisory capacity to Medical Staff and entity leadership in evaluating barriers and delays as they relate to admission, transfer and discharge goals.
Maximizes hospital throughput of inpatients through the safe and efficient coordination of the admission, discharge and transfer processes.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary leadership to establish standards and ensure accountability/ adherence to processes as they relate to admissions, transfers, and discharges.
Work with unit-level leadership to identify, monitor, and report trends that prohibit optimal patient flow.
Acts as liaison with other ancillary departments to ensure identified and anticipated discharge patients are triaged and streamlined accordingly. Checks on delays in all sub-processes, including lab, imaging, pharmacy consults, dialysis and any other department influencing the throughput of patients.
Works with case management, social work and inpatient units to prioritize patient discharges based off Geometric Mean Length of Stay (GMLOS) and similar indicators.
Using communication and problem solving skills, sets priorities, triages own workflow processes, works as a team member, and delegates responsibilities to other team members as needed.
Leads, interacts, motivates and communicates with a wide range of staff, physicians, patients, family members and other hospital personnel in a professional manner.
May act as a resource internally managing the coordination and delivery of education within the entity (for example, sepsis, etc).
Collaborates with the ED Flow Coordinator to assist in effective implementation when surge plans are enacted.
Demonstrates clinical knowledge to evaluate and prioritize patient throughput issues.