Job Description

At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day.

We all have the power to help, heal and change lives — beginning with our own. That’s the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One.

Job Title

Access Nurse - Transfer Center

Location

Port St Lucie

Facility

Tradition Hospital

Department

Critical Care Transport-Medical Operations

Job Code

001183

Shift

Day/Evening/Night/Weekend

Schedule

11:00am-11:00pm/7:00am-7:00pm

**Applicants must reside in Florida and within 1 hour travel distance to a CCF facility

Join Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital’s team of caregivers that provide top-quality patient care to the Port St. Lucie area. Opening its doors in 2013 and expanding in 2017, this state-of-the-art acute care facility has 177 patient rooms and offers a wide variety of services to meet community needs. Here, you will be supported as you follow your dreams and find where you belong, here at Tradition Hospital.

As an Access Nurse, your work will focus on coordinating patient flow. In this position, you will facilitate hospital transfers and direct admissions, determine daily bed resources and oversee bed management logistics for the health system. This position is vital in gathering accurate data to enhance efficiency and promote patient safety and need prioritization.

A caregiver in this position works 11:00am to 11:00pm, about 48 hours in a 6 week period.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for telephone patients with a variety of health or illness questions.

• Utilize effective and professional communication, clinical knowledge and nursing assessment skills to quickly triage patient status.

• Provide intake, assessment and triage for internal and external hospital transfers and direct admissions on request in accordance with standard operating procedures.

• Elicit information from referring providers, review patient clinical information and assess patient status for appropriate placement.

• Collaborate with health care providers and hospital leadership to optimize patient outcomes utilizing clinical expertise and incorporating nursing and management experience with critical thinking skills and business intelligence tools to achieve optimal outcomes both clinically and financially for the patients and the organization.

• Apply solid understanding of the complexities of the patient status and the process and capabilities of each system hospital to seamlessly facilitate and achieve enterprise bed placement.

• Provide oversight of all bed management functions.

• Function at any point in the patient flow process designated to ensure the safe and efficient placement of patients and effective utilization of resources.

• Demonstrate cost effective management of enterprise bed resources to enable the organization to provide quality care to patients.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Graduate of an accredited school of Professional Nursing

• Current state license as a Registered Nurse (RN)

• Three years of recent progressive clinical experience in an acute care setting

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN)

• Two years of supervisory experience in a healthcare setting

• Computer proficiency in Microsoft applications, bed management databases and Epic

• ICU, ED, Critical Care and/or Bed Management experience

• 403(b) Savings & Investment Plan
• Investment Pension Plan (IPP)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Employee Discounts
• Dental and Vision Plans
• Life Insurance and Disability

Physical Requirements:

• Requires sitting for long periods of time, multitasking, manual dexterity to operate computers and normal or corrected vision.
• Requires working under stressful and emergency situations with the ability to maintain composure in any situation in order to provide superior customer service and ensure proper patient safety and placement.
• Must be able to perform multiple functions simultaneously without supervision and learn new practices promptly.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.

If applying for a Florida position, please see the following website for more information on the background screening requirements required by the Agency of Health Care Administration: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/

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Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.