About this role
Facility Name: Jackson Memorial Hospital - Care Logistics Facility Address: 1611 NW 12 Ave., Miami, FL 33136 Shift details: Full Time Nights, 7:00 PM - 7:00 AM, rotating weekends (3 shifts per week)
Why Jackson Memorial Hospital: Jackson Memorial Hospital is the flagship hospital for Jackson Health System and it has been a beacon of medical excellence and community care for more than a century. Throughout its rich and storied history, Jackson Memorial - located in the heart of the City of Miami - has been ground zero for some of the world's greatest medical breakthroughs and important moments in South Florida. We've grown into one of the nation's largest public hospitals, and one of the few that is also a world-class academic medical center with a proud mission and proven success. Jackson Memorial is an accredited, tertiary teaching hospital with 1,500 licensed beds, where nearly every medical specialty is provided by some of the world's most skilled and highly regarded multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals. Summary The Hospital Flow Coordinator works with Nurse Managers, Associate Nurse Managers, and Directors to ensure that all patient flow through the organization with ease resulting in decreased ED and ICU boarding. Assists with management of patient flow tracking systems, staffing, and sitter and physician assignment. Facilitates patient flow and decreases pull times and patient delays assisting with throughput of ICU, OR, Recovery, Resus, Procedural areas, ED, Med/Surg, direct admits, and internal transfers. Responsibilities
• Views hospital bed status at a glance, drilling down to the nursing unit level, thus ensuring patients are admitted to the correct department from the outset, improving patient care with faster and safer outcomes. • Lead the development, implementation and continual improvement of patient flow. • Ascertain the number of predicted demand, including pre-booked in-patients and unscheduled patients, resulting in effective patient throughput. • Utilize available software to predict bed availability, including planned and confirmed discharges, making it easier to identify and predict pressures points beforehand allowing for corrective action. • Fast identification of delayed discharges, interfacing with the AIC to address the cause of delays before demand exceeds availability. • Focus on targeted strategic movements to ensure rapid flow. • Acts as a liaison between and with physicians, patient/family, hospital staff and patient care areas, to promote efficient patient flow utilizing effective and professional communication. • Tracks and trends barriers to patient flow; makes recommendations and develops action plans to improve process and systems. • Demonstrates behaviors of service excellence and CARE values (Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Expertise). • Performs all other related job duties as assigned.
Experience Generally requires 3 to 5 years of related experience.
Preferred Experience
• At least three (3) years' experience as an inpatient registered nurse in ICU and/or Emergency department. • Three (3) years of hospital flow management experience is preferred.
Education Associate's degree in related field is required. Employees hired after 12/1/2020, Bachelor's degree in nursing is required.
Credentials Valid State of Florida RN license is required. Unit Specific Credential
Jackson Health System is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.