Crit Care Transfer Coord; RN Nights - Florham Park - Mobile Health

Job Description

The Critical Care Transfer Coordinator (RN) plays a critical role in coordinating patient movement between healthcare facilities in a fast‑paced, 24/7 call‑center environment. This position serves as the central communication hub for interfacility transfers, ensuring seamless care transitions and patient safety.

Strong clinical assessment and critical thinking skills are essential, along with excellent verbal communication abilities. The ideal candidate demonstrates exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to remain calm under pressure. Proficiency with multiple computer systems, electronic health records, and telephone technology is required. The nurse must possess strong interpersonal skills to build rapport quickly with diverse healthcare professionals and navigate complex clinical situations diplomatically.

• Proficient in EHR data entry, telephone, and office systems to support operations while ensuring accurate, timely data entry and protection of Protected Health Information (PHI).
• Collect and interpret clinical data from various sources (physicians, nurses, chart) to develop transfer plans, including eligibility, level of care, resource prioritization and utilization, timely acceptance, and appropriate priority and mode of transport.
• Use critical thinking skills to make recommendations that promote the best potential patient outcome based on clinical information, patient/physician preferences, and the capability of both transferring and receiving facilities.
• Serve as a clinical resource to customers, departments, and clinicians involved in patient transfers.
• Communicate clinical and non‑clinical information to relevant parties including nurses, physicians, specialists, and others.
• Participate in quality assurance and improvement initiatives as assigned.
• Accurately complete and transmit all required documentation per policies and procedures.
• Communicate transport information to relevant parties to facilitate synchronization and timely provision of services.
• Work tirelessly to achieve positive, timely, and safe patient transfers by practicing with a positive, proactive, can‑do, problem‑solving, and collaborative attitude with all customers.
• Seek ways to improve services, streamline processes, and accommodate customers’ requests in a timely manner while maintaining a calm demeanor through all phases of the process.

New Jersey or compact Registered Nurse Licensure required.

Bachelor's degree in nursing preferred.

• 3–5 years acute care nursing experience preferred.
• Prior ED or Critical Care nursing experience preferred.
• BLS required.
• ACLS or PALS required upon hire.
• ACLS and PALS required within 6 months of hire.

This position operates in a call‑center setting requiring extended periods at a computer workstation while managing multiple phone lines. The nurse must be able to multitask effectively in a high‑stress environment with competing priorities and time‑sensitive decisions. Shifts include days, nights, weekends, and holidays as part of 24/7 operations coverage.

At Atlantic Health System, our promise to our communities is that anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is echoed in the respect, development, and opportunities we give to our more than 20,000 team members. Headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non‑profit health care systems in the nation.

• Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
• Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
• Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
• Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
• Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
• Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
• Centra State Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
• Atlantic Home Care and Hospice
• Atlantic Mobile Health
• Atlantic Rehabilitation

We also have more than 900 community‑based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group. Atlantic Accountable Care Organization is one of the largest ACOs in the nation, and we are a member of All Spire Health Partners.

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