Transfer Center RN

CommonSpirit Health • Gig Harbor, WA

1d

About The Position

As our Transfer Center Nurse, you will help patients and their families navigate the complex transfer process so they can receive timely and appropriate care. Every day you will coordinate patient transfers between facilities and external healthcare providers. You will be expected to assess patient needs, communicate effectively with healthcare teams, and ensure a smooth transition of care. To be successful in this role, you must possess strong clinical judgment, critical thinking skills, and excellent communication abilities.

Requirements

• Bachelors Other Nursing or related discipline and five years of progressively responsible related work experience, that demonstrates the attainment of the requisite job knowledge, skills and abilities preferably in a multi-hospital system, upon hire
• Critical Care or Emergency Room nursing experience
• Equivalent related work experience may be substituted for the Bachelor’s degree
• Registered Nurse: WA, upon hire

Nice To Haves

• Charge Nurse experience

Responsibilities

• Coordinates, facilitates, and continually monitors regional patient placement/bed assignments, by serving as regional point-person for CHI-FH emergency departments and community-based physicians/ providers/health care facilities requesting in-patient hospital beds through the Transfer/Access Center.
• Keeps abreast of bed demand/availability/status information on a regional basis in order to ensure patients are placed in the appropriate bed at the right time and to facilitate bed turnaround time.
• Identifies anticipated patient admissions/transfers/discharges and ascertains potential bed availability on a regional basis; maintains ongoing communication with the Emergency Departments and other requesting units to identify shifting priorities/needs for beds.
• Gathers clinical information to clarify clinical acuity and other relevant information bearing on bed and/or hospital placement that is consistent with criteria for the patient’s needs.
• Assesses patient acuity within limitations of RN licensure and determines whether tertiary services are appropriate.
• Determines the “best fit” CHI-FH hospital and/or unit to provide the best level of care and searches for available bed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time