[Hiring] Access Nurse @Cleveland Clinic

Role Description

Join the Cleveland Clinic team, where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-first healthcare. As an Access Nurse, your work will focus on coordinating patient flow, facilitating hospital transfers and direct admissions, determining daily bed resources, and overseeing bed management logistics for the health system. This position is vital in gathering accurate data to enhance efficiency and promote patient safety and need prioritization.

A PRN caregiver in this position works various shifts from 7:00AM – 7:00PM.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for telephone patients with a variety of health or illness questions.
• Utilize effective and professional communication, clinical knowledge, and nursing assessment skills to quickly triage patient status.
• Provide intake, assessment, and triage for internal and external hospital transfers and direct admissions on request in accordance with standard operating procedures.
• Utilize telephonic interaction as the primary mode of contact through recorded conference calls, completing electronic documentation, and connecting appropriate providers to ensure safe exchange of patient information for acceptance to the health system.
• Elicit information from referring providers, review patient clinical information, and assess patient status for appropriate placement.
• Collaborate with health care providers and hospital leadership to optimize patient outcomes utilizing clinical expertise and incorporating nursing and management experience with critical thinking skills and business intelligence tools.
• Apply solid understanding of the complexities of patient status and the process and capabilities of each system hospital to seamlessly facilitate and achieve enterprise bed placement.
• Provide oversight of all bed management functions.
• Function at any point in the patient flow process designated to ensure the safe and efficient placement of patients and effective utilization of resources.
• Demonstrate cost effective management of enterprise bed resources to enable the organization to provide quality care to patients.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of Professional Nursing (Diploma, ADN or BSN program)
• Current state license as a Registered Nurse (RN)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross
• Three years of recent progressive clinical experience in an acute care setting

Requirements

• Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN) - Preferred
• Two years of supervisory experience in a healthcare setting - Preferred
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft applications, bed management databases, and Epic - Preferred
• Critical care experience - Preferred

Benefits

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
• Comply with the influenza prevention program, which includes obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.