Description:
JOB PURPOSE:
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.
MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED:
Graduate of nursing program.
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Five years experience working as a Registered Nurse in an acute care setting; competent to work in multiple areas including acute and critical care settings; experience with conscious sedation required.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision and have excellent assessment and prioritization skills. 3 years of leadership responsibility preferred.
MINIMUM LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LAW:
Current License in the State of Georgia as a Registered Nurse or NLC/eNLC Multistate License.
BLS certification through American Heart Association
KEY 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.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES
Leadership Skills
Effective Communication Skills
Initiative
Independent Judgment
Ability to handle stressful environments.
Organization and time management skills.
Detailed knowledge of federal and state hospital Utilization Review (UR) regulations, Medicare Conditions of Participation, Medicare Guidelines regarding Medical Necessity, Hospital Admission and Hospital stays.
Disclaimer
The above information is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
Qualifications:
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Five years experience working as a Registered Nurse in an acute care setting; competent to work in multiple areas including acute and critical care settings; experience with conscious sedation required for working at Piedmont Fayette Hospital.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES
Leadership Skills
Effective Communication Skills
Initiative
Independent Judgment
Ability to handle stressful environments.
Organization and time management skills.
Detailed knowledge of federal and state hospital Utilization Review (UR) regulations, Medicare Conditions of Participation, Medicare Guidelines regarding Medical Necessity, Hospital Admission and Hospital stays.
Disclaimer
The above information is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.