Bed Management Registered Nurse Specialist - Patient Logistics

Job description

Job Description Facilitates patient admission, discharge, intra-hospital and inter-facility transfer processes through clinical triage. Acts as the primary liaison between physicians, hospitals and other care providers who seek to refer, schedule or transfer patients into the organization. Provides clinical expertise, close medical communication and quality assessment for the successful referral and transfer of patients to the facility. Job Responsibility: - Promotes optimum utilization of hospital beds; conducts rounds and meets with staff regarding bed availability and current census. - Assigns patients to available beds to avoid delays in patient arrival to units. - Communicates with the surgery department, emergency department, nursing units, physician offices and outlying facilities to ensure appropriate placement of patients in a timely manner. - Assists with and ensures admission paperwork is complete, and ensures hand-off of communication to accepting nurse. - Ensures beds are assigned based on level of care and patient aggregation; addresses and resolves issues arising from increased census and decreased bed availability. - Promotes patient, family and physician satisfacti...