Clinical Logistics Bed Placement Coordinator
- USA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
- Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.
- Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
- Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
- Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, & flexible work schedules.
- Assigns patients to the right care site while promoting positive outcomes related to patient bed placement.
- Coordinates with the Inova Transfer Center and care sites to balance patient volumes across care sites.
- Obtains information on patient admissions originating from the ED, PACU, direct admissions and transfers from other facilities while determining the appropriateness of admission
- Collaborates with care-site-based team members on challenging admissions to find appropriate patient placement.
- Facilitates daily capacity/flow meetings with all care sites, leads efforts to problem solve during high census periods, and helps develop action plans and implements interventions aimed at reducing patients boarding and / or waiting on admission to specialty care sites
- Collaborates and directs patient flow coordinators effectively in prioritizing appropriate bed placement of all patient types upon notification of admission or transfer.
- Monitors EPIC bed planning and bed board modules at all times and proactively uses the information to plan bed availability based on current census, OR cases, discharges and historical data.
- Orients new team members to patient flow initiatives, demand capacity flow and creates awareness of the importance of patient flow within the organization.
- Maintains awareness of staffing levels in key departments that may impact patient flow such as EVS, transport and nursing.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Education: Bachelors Degree in Nursing
- Experience: 3 years clinical nursing experience in acute care setting
- Certification: Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association. Licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse.
- Experience: med/surg, critical care, and/or emergency department ED background