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Union Hospital

Coordinate clinical aspects of care primarily focused on exploring and implementing best practices in order to continuously improve patient flow throughout the admission and discharge experience while maintaining optimal patient care, service excellence, and cost effectiveness. Coordinate interdisciplinary functions to assure appropriate clinical interventions, and quality improvement activities. Innovations to improve work procedures and methods which primarily result in some time and cost savings. The job duties affect direct patient care through the completion of tasks which allow others to provide direct care and may require provision of direct patient care, including admission assessment, invasive procedures, monitoring of patients during transport and during procedures with sedation. Assess bed status and resource availability to admit patients throughout the hospital and initiate a HOPE (Help Our Patients Everywhere) Alert as necessary to facilitate patient flow and make available beds for incoming patients. Role modeling and initiating teamwork and collaboration and professionalism across different departments hospital wide to facilitate optimal patient flow, patient satisfaction and service excellence. Coordinate the placement of patients throughout the facility for direct admits, in-house transfers, admissions or transfer from other facilities, and admits from the Emergency room, PACU and other outpatient departments. Coordinates admissions to assure maximum efficiency, decreased LOS in ED, and improve patient satisfaction. This includes resolving complaints, making adjustments or correcting mistakes about a selected service or capability. Job assign and monitor the flow of work for employees across work units. Provides input or completes performance reviews as requested. Work in close collaboration with the Nursing Supervisors, Medical Staff and Admitting Office on a routine basis.

Union Hospital

Manage a 24 bed Progressive Care Unit, 42 FTEs. Patient Volume of approximately 2,700 admissions per year. Reports to the Director of Critical Care. Scheduling of 59 employees. Responsible for staff development and training opportunities. Staff evaluations. Organizing and updating staff licensure, BLS and ACLS certifications and education files . Role modeling and initiating teamwork and collaboration. Organizing developing and tracking of mandatory annual hospital and unit specific nursing competencies. Tracking of attendance. Investigation and follow-up of incident reports. Investigation and follow-up of patient, family and employee complaints. Staff counseling and disciplinary actions. Interfaces with the Affinity Health Institute, Unit Supervisors, and Education Council to facilitate and coordinate the learning experience and promote the fellowship and preceptor programs. Teach classes for Hospital Orientation and the Fellowship Program. Collaborate with the Leadership Council to develop and organize a hospital wide Charge Nurse Program. Tracking of restraint compliance. Investigation and follow-up of medication errors. Ensures compliance with all hospital policies and procedures for all staff on the Progressive Care Unit. Promotes and maintains safety for all patients, families and staff. Teach and encourage staff participation in the Clinical Ladder. Conduct prospective employee interviews. House Supervisor four weekends a year, promoting safety, monitoring bed control and turnover, coordinating add on surgery cases, and handling any emergent situation. Monitor and track the use and effectiveness of the employee incentive program. Complete biweekly payroll. Ordering of supplies and equipment needed to ensure effective patient care and cardiac monitoring. Administer yearly PPDs and Flu Vaccines. Develop and monitor yearly performance improvement initiatives for PCU. Monitor community services provided by the PCU.

Bsn, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, Graduated With 4.0 Grade Point Average

Activities and Societies: American Association of Critical Care Nurses Maryland Nurses Association Phi Theta Kappa Honor SocietyBSN

Associate'S Degree, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society