Overview:
Join our team as an Inpatient Care Specialist (RN), working alongside our Hospitalist physicians to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care in a fast-paced inpatient setting. In this role, you'll serve as a key clinical partner-supporting care coordination, enhancing patient outcomes, and ensuring seamless communication across the healthcare team.
Location: Brunswick Medical Center
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8 am - 5 pm
Status: Non-Exempt
Responsibilities:
* Collaborate closely with Hospitalists to manage inpatient care plans
* Coordinate patient care, including admissions, discharges, and transitions
* Serve as a clinical resource for patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams
* Monitor patient progress and support evidence-based interventions
* Help drive quality, safety, and patient satisfaction initiatives
Qualifications:
* Education: 4 Year / Bachelors Degree, required.
* BSN Preferred. Specific coursework in quality improvement, continuous improvement theory, operational analysis, or other quantitative evaluation methodology, preferred.
* Experience: Minimum of three years of experience in an acute health care, ICU or medical setting, required.
* Licensure/Certification: RN licensure in appropriate state, required.
* Additional Skills (required): Knowledge of data collection and analysis, navigation of hospital computer systems, problem solving, decision making, effective communication and conflict management skills. Good knowledge of chart abstraction processes. Good understanding of patient identification processes and components in patient management. Good knowledge of nursing documentation practices and resource tools. Understanding of process/quality improvement methodologies, health care statistics, and data collection and reporting. Demonstrates clinical expertise to effectively facilitate evaluation of quality care and possesses advanced skills in data management as well as the ability to collect, analyze and present data to groups and individuals. Detail and process oriented with focus on efficiency. Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and effectively adapt to a fast paced, changing environment. Ability to successfully work in an environment of high stress with rapidly changing priorities. Ability to obtain prior authorization from payers for patient medications. Accurately complete Disability and Family Medical Leave Act forms for patients. Actively participate with IDT Rounds. Assist Case Management with discharge planning. Distributes provider morning census and maintain tracking system. Annually prepare provider schedule with assistance from management. Participates in house-wide educational programs as assigned. Promotes Practice and Process Improvements. Provides relevant clinical input into the development of policies and procedures, order sets and forms as indicated. Makes recommendations for practice changes to facilitate and optimize patient care.
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