RN Transfer Coordinator | Transfer Center | Night |
Job description
Work Status Details: REGULAR FULL TIME | 72.00 Hours Every Two Weeks
Shift: Nights
Pay Rate Type: Hourly
Location: Yuma Medical Center
Listed is the base hiring salary range offered for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors, including but not limited to skills and experience. The salary range listed is just one component of the total rewards/compensation package offered to candidates.
Min = $48.32
Mid = $62.81
Max = $77.31
Summary:
The Transfer Coordinator assists with processing patient admissions and transfers. The coordinator is responsible for facilitating incoming and outgoing Acute care transfers, interfacility transfers, and managing patient flow and bed placement. This individual occupying this position must demonstrate appropriate, diplomatic, and sensitive communication and interaction skills, all while working in a fast-paced, acute healthcare environment with multiple distractions and ever-changing priorities.
Responsibilities:
Provides direction, guidance, and coordination to healthcare providers for optimal, safe, effective and timely patient placement and throughput. Manages incoming, outgoing acute care transfers, interfacility transfers, and direct admissions.
Communicates with referring hospital to coordinate transportation arrangements and provide assigned beds and assist with screening and facilitating unscheduled/urgent admissions. Connect sending and accepting physicians by a physician-to-physician call. Interacts with physicians, nursing staff and EVS to effectively communicate patient bed placements to coordinate patient throughput.
Ensures safe and timely placement of patients based on admission status, physician ordered level of care, patient’s clinical information and nursing units’ admission and discharge criteria. Assigns inpatient beds accurately and efficiently, ensuring patient placement aligns with physician orders, clinical requirements, bed availability, and unit capabilities.
Coordinates appropriate patient placement across inpatient units, verifying that beds are assigned correctly based on diagnosis, acuity level, specialty service needs, isolation requirements, and organizational policies. Receives and manages EMS traffic and transfer requests, coordinating timely placement of patients while ensuring compliance with established transfer protocols and clinical criteria.
Maintains documentation of activities in appropriate logs and tracks and trends barriers to patient intake flow.
Exhibit and models exceptional customer relationship behaviors, including telephone and personal contact.
Maintains required clinical certifications, including basic life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and pediatric advanced life support (PALS)
Other duties as assigned
Credentials:
Essential:
* BASIC LIFE SUPPORT (BLS)
* REGISTERED NURSE (RN)
* ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT (ACLS)
* PEDIATRIC ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT (PALS)
Education:
Essential:
* ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE
Other information:
Minimum Requirements:
Associates Degree
Registered Nurse AZ or compound
BLS -Basic Life Support (AHA)
ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support (AHA)
PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support (AHA)
3 + years of RN experience
Preferred: 3+ years of Case Management experience.
Join us at Yuma Regional Medical Center dba Onvida Health
A career at Onvida Health is more than just a job. It’s a place to have a long and rewarding career, making a difference in the lives of those in our shared community. When you join our team, you become an integral part of a thriving community committed to improving the health and well-being of everyone in southwestern Arizona.
At Onvida Health, we believe in progress with purpose. Our commitment to innovation is matched by our dedication to kindness and integrity. We take our values seriously because we know they lead to better outcomes for our patients and a better experience for all of us. We’re looking for people who approach each day with a sense of possibility, a drive to make things better, and a commitment to kindness. If that sounds like you, you’re our kind of people.
If you’re looking for a career where innovation meets compassion, where you can grow and contribute to building a healthier tomorrow, Onvida Health is the place for you.
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Physical Requirements and working conditions for this position will be provided to you up on interview.