About this role
Purpose of Position and Scope of Responsibility
Coordinates and provides care utilizing the critical thinking framework. Blends caring, compassion, knowledge and integrity to provide safe, timely, and quality care while facilitating movement of patients throughout all of Baptist facilities. Patient placement specialists are responsible for ensuring that patients are placed in the most appropriate level of care based on their medical condition and needs. This involves coordinating transfers between hospital facilities and liaising with healthcare providers to ensure that patients receive the appropriate level of care. Makes appropriate bed assignments for admissions, ED, intra-hospital and entity transfers. Performs other duties as assigned.
Principal Accountabilities/Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Assess bed availability for all areas of the hospital.
- Proficient in electronic bed management systems.
- Participates in activities designed to improve health care delivery.
- Provides clinical leadership.
- Supports lifelong learning.
- Completes assigned goals.
- Coordinating patient admissions and transfers: The patient placement specialist coordinates with healthcare providers, patients, and families to ensure that patients are admitted to the appropriate units or transferred to other facilities as needed.
- Assessing patient needs: The specialist assesses patients' medical conditions, diagnoses, and treatment plans to determine the best unit and level of care for them.
- Collaborating with healthcare providers: The specialist collaborates with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers to ensure that patients receive the appropriate care and treatment.
- Ensuring proper documentation: The specialist ensures that all necessary patient information is accurately documented and communicated to the appropriate healthcare providers.
- Managing patient flow: The specialist manages patient flow throughout the hospital, ensuring that patients are moved efficiently through the system to prevent delays or bottlenecks.
- Facilitating communication: The specialist serves as a liaison between patients, families, and healthcare providers to facilitate effective communication and ensure that patients' needs are met.
- Maintaining compliance: The specialist ensures that all hospital policies, procedures, and regulations are followed, including those related to patient privacy and safety
- Following the escalation process which involves speaking with Administration and House Supervisors
- Facilitates transfer back process between our entities
- Monitor and coordinate care for emergent/urgent conditions (STEMI) through Pulsara.
- Enters orders timely for Strokes and STEMI’s
- Assist facilities with problem-solving with patient movement/orders
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Education
Minimum: RN
Minimum Experience
Preferred: Knowledge of Baptist hospitals and specialty units. EPIC experience
Minimum: RN
Minimum Licensure, Registration, Certification
Minimum: RN
Preferred: BLS
Minimum: Computer literacy
Desired Qualifications
Desired Education
Desired Experience Minimum years required- 2 years in acute care
Desired Licensure, Registration, Certification
Work environment- Sedentary
Functional demands- Sedentary
Other facts
About Baptist
Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Baptist offers a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South and consistently ranks among the top integrated health care networks in the country. The health care system comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, Mississippi and East Arkansas; more than 5,400 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 900 providers; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical centers and clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by Baptist Health Sciences University (formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences). Baptist employs more than 21,000 people, and in fiscal year 2022 contributed more than $455 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook or Instagram.
What you'll do
- The RN-Patient Placement Center coordinates patient admissions and transfers, ensuring patients are placed in the appropriate level of care based on their medical needs. They manage patient flow throughout the hospital and facilitate communication between patients, families, and healthcare providers.
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