Registered Nurse RN Coordinator

As a Registered Nurse RN Coordinator, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing. The RN Coordinator uses acquired nursing knowledge and experience to facilitate the transfer, transport, and placement of patients for all HCA facilities within the markets served.

The position collects clinical information relative to a patient movement request and then facilitates the patient’s movement by matching the patient’s clinical needs to the facility with bed capacity and service capability, including collaboration for appropriate bed placement within the facility in accordance with the current transfer center processes. The RN Coordinator demonstrates initiative and problem‑solving skills while working with multiple and various departments within each hospital to foster relationships with referring facilities, physicians, and hospital staff.

The position works closely with the leadership team at each facility to identify, trend, and report barriers to patient throughput and patient safety, for optimal clinical outcomes for the patient. This position will use customer service skills and professional communication standards to positively interact with peers, customers, and supervisors.

• Performs all transfer center functions, including centralized patient placement, in a timely, customer centered professional manner with the aid of a computer database consisting of facility service profiles, approved clinical protocols, established patient care protocols, and healthcare information
• Coordinates transfer of emergent, urgent and elective patients to a final destination facility from all potential referral sources to include but not limited to hospitals, clinics, post-acute centers, and physician offices