RN Patient Placement, Access Center, Part-time

## RN Patient Placement, Access Center, Part-time, 11a-11pApply:
Louisville, Kentucky:
Part time:
Posted Today:
JR  
** Primary

Location:

** Nucleus Building - UMC#
** Address:
** 300

E. Market St.Louisville, KY 40202#
** Shift:
** 11A - 11P (United States of America)#
** Job Description

Summary:

** UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center.  With more than 12,000 team members—physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists, and other highly skilled health care professionals—UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day#
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* Job Description:

** This employee ensures safe and efficient patient throughput within UofL Health. To accomplish this goal, the Patient Placement Coordinator will work with all persons needed to evaluate appropriate placement and facilitate communication among physicians, patient transportation providers, nursing staff, and ancillary teams regarding patient throughput.

Essential Functions:

• Evaluates, processes, and tracks all bed requests for UofL Health  
• Efficiently assigns appropriate bed placements for all patients needing an inpatient UofL Health bed in accordance with department goals  
• Coordinate with Transfer Center RNs in continuous review of Tele Tracking information to ensure all bed requests are accurate  
• Proficient working knowledge of Hospital Capabilities & Unit Scopes of Service within each UofL Health Inpatient facility  
• Participates regularly in all UofL Health Inpatient Facility capacity management huddles  
• Proactively identifies patient throughput barriers and facilitates escalation to appropriate team  
• Establishes and maintains strong relationships and communication with facility leadership and Transfer Center RNs in order to provide efficient patient throughput and excellent patient experience

Shift Requirements:  Shift Length (in hours):
12 hours  # Shifts/Week:
3 shifts per week  Overtime

Required:

☒ Infrequently     ☐ Sometimes    ☐ Often     ☐ n/a (exempt position)
Other Functions:  
• Maintains compliance with all company policies, procedures, and standards of conduct   
• Complies with HIPAA privacy and security requirements to maintain confidentiality at all times  
• Performs other duties as assigned#
** Additional

Job Description:

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* Education:

High School Diploma or GED required.

Experience:

• Two (2) years of inpatient hospital experience (required)  
• Five (5) years of inpatient hospital experience (preferred)  Job

Competency:

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities critical to this role:

• Customer service-oriented; responsive, informs constituents of process, pleasant to work with, educates and provides timely, accurate information  
• Ability to use prioritization skills to coordinate different patients coming from multiple areas  
• Ability to use conflict management skills to develop and implement strategies to assure continuous, smooth inter- and intra-departmental workflow even in the face of conflicting priorities, short term objectives, or limited resources  
• Ability to build effective, strong working relationships with employees, colleagues, management and vendors through trust, communication, and credibility   
• Ability to work with others, serve others, help others, lead others, mentor others, take directions from others in the interest of moving process and programs forward to the desired outcome.

• Ability to perform work in a neat, efficient, well-coordinated, well communicated manner with a high degree of accuracy and professionalism

Language Ability:

• Must be able to communicate effectively in…