Registered Nurse - Bed Control

Job Title

Registered Nurse (RN)

Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education, self-management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care. Follows procedures per established policies and guidelines. Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team. Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care. The Registered Nurse (RN) executes position responsibilities that demonstrate expert leadership, experience, and creative approaches in providing complex patient management.

Provides indirect and/or direct nursing care to patients with complex needs as related to transfers, admissions, telephone triage, and discharges. Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to validate and/or collect initial patient information such as Veteran benefit eligibility, insurance status, Veteran travel eligibility, and bed availability at the VAMC. Facilitates the transfer process by working with the interdisciplinary team to establish appropriateness of admission and provider coverage based on review of medical information.

Assists with travel arrangements as needed and facilitates nursing report. Facilitates bed control, placing patients on the most appropriate unit. Uses established bed control monitor devices, i.e., Bed Management System (BMS), Emergency Department Integrated System (EDIS), Capacity Management, to assist in the assignment of patients to the appropriate unit. The PFC coordinates care with multiple providers across all levels and sites of care.

Coordination also includes assuring services interface within the VA and community programs to provide continuity of care to patients. Accurately manages bed control monitor devices. Participates in interdisciplinary care rounds and/or conferences to review treatment goals, optimize resource utilization, and recommends alternate levels of care when acute care is not required or recommended. Effectively communicates census and bed availability on all patient care units.

Resolves bed utilization issues. Processes admission requests from providers, clinics, and other VA or community hospitals. Educates internal and external customers on the VAMC admission/transfer process. Monitors the efficiency of transfers and discharges. Works with Environmental Management Services (EMS) to prioritize the need for rooms to be cleaned. Acts as a resource across departments/services to provide help and training as needed to both clinical and non-clinical staff.

Participates on interdisciplinary committees/teams/task forces focused on the facilitation of patient flow and organizational performance. Collaborates in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of policies, procedures, and/or guidelines to ensure the delivery of safe, efficient, and effective evidence-based care. Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients. Provides peers with formal or informal constructive feedback for improvement.

Supports colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care. Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of health care professionals. Evaluates outcomes of evidence-based decisions and practice changes for individuals, groups, and populations. Responsible for the documenting broad and complex outcomes at the program or service level, that can be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility.

Pay:
Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement:
Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance:
Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule:

6:00am-2:30pm, Monday - Friday, with rotating holidays.

Telework:
Not Available

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized