Bed Access Nurse/Manager BWH

Site: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

 

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Job Summary

Bed Access Nurse Manager / Full Time-40 Hours / BWH Boston Main Campus
Job Summary:
This position involves managing capacity and access, ensuring safe, efficient, and timely patient care, and working to coordinate and optimize all incoming hospital transfers and referrals for the system and triage patients, reducing transfer delays, balancing the flow of transfers, and coordinating standardized transfer pathways.
Essential Functions:
Elicits patient information from referring MD and outside facility nurse to allow appropriate patient triage and placement.
-Using triage tools and algorithms, working in collaboration with patient access services and others to transfer the patient in a clinically appropriate timeframe.
-Acts as a liaison to provide and ensure continuity of care for the patient and family and is a clinical resource for the financial navigator.
-Assessment of patients and families before their initial consultation requires initial nursing assessment, which may include intake, diagnosis, history, physical symptoms, psychosocial assessment, cultural assessment, and educational needs.
-Collaborates with and coordinates providers and support staff to facilitate appropriate decision-making that will provide complete and comprehensive care to the patient and family.
-Utilizes established systems to document the reason for visit, testing ordered/completed, referrals made, and current medication list.

 

• Bachelor's Degree Nursing required.

• This role cannot this role accept experience in lieu of a degree.

Licenses and Credentials:

• Registered Nursing License in Massachusetts is Required

Experience:

• Clinical nursing experience 2-3 years required.

• Patient flow, access nurse, or bed control experience 1-2 years preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Possesses interpersonal skills to interact effectively with intra-inter and outside-hospital physicians and personnel.

• Strong theoretical and experiential knowledge of nursing practices.

• Must possess skills to work well independently and have sound decision-making skills.

• Possesses the ability to manage critical issues relating to patient care and changing organizational climate.

 

 

Onsite

 

75 Francis Street

 

40

 

Regular

 

Day (United States of America)

Pay Range

$72,425.60 - $140,348.00/Annual

Grade

6NTEMP
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The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at (857)-282-7642.

 

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