Clinical Liaison- Inpatient Rehab

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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