Clinical Liaison- Inpatient Rehab
Tenet Healthcare · Goodyear, Arizona, United States · onsite
The Cord, Nursing coordinates a patient-centered admission process for patients transferring into the Abrazo Community Health
Network/Carondelet System ensuring placement in an appropriate level of care bed and financial screening per EMTALA regulations . They
employ critical thinking skills to expedite admissions into ACHN/Carondelet while demonstrating ACHN/Carondelet’s Mission, Vision, Values and
Service Standards in all interactions with referring facilities, physicians, employees and guests.
- Facilitates patient centric critical and emergent transfers into multiple hospitals comprising the Abrazo Community Health Network (ACHN) and Carondelet System utilizing service line specific transfer protocols.
- Systematically employs critical thinking triage skills to assist sending facilities to transfer their patients to a higher level of care focusing on EMTALA guidelines.
- Collaborates with multiple members of the sending and receiving healthcare teams to ensure a timely admission into the right bed in the right level of care with the correctly identified admission status.
- Escalates situations falling outside of transfer protocol parameters and presents succinct SBAR to physicians and/or AOC.
- Facilitates patient outbound calls while vetting apporpriateness
- Other related job tasks or responsibilities as assigned
- Special Skills :- Organizational and leadership skills
- Ability to decipher specific messages with background noise
- Effective communication skills – phone etiquette, written and verbal – with all levels of staff, physicians, patients and families
- Experienced at multi -tasking
- Ability to present self in positive and professional manner, exhibiting confidence, tact, and enthusiasm
- Must be sensitive to diverse cultural and bilingual issues
- Adept at interpreting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data
- Ability to quickly triage, critically think in high pressure situations and prioritize
- Minimum Requirements - Experience: Minimum of 5 years continuous clinical experience in a critical/acute care setting with adult neuro/trauma/cardiovascular/critical care or emergency room nursing preferred. Ability to manage initial assessment data and prioritize patient care with appropriate decision making.
- Education: Graduation from accredited nursing program
- Certifications: Registered Nurse with current state licensure. Current BLS certification required;
- Preferred Requirements - Experience: 8 years of critical care, emergency room, or house supervisor experience
- Education: BSN preferred
- Certifications: ACLS training preferred.
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