Travel Nurse RN - ED - Emergency Department - $2,602 per week
Company: Aspirus Wausau Hospital
Location: Wausau
Posted on: January 29, 2025
Job Description:
- Certification Details
- WI RN License
- AHA or ARC BLS
- Job Details
- Job ID: ASWAHW-23221
- Specialty: Admission and Transfer RN
- Facility: Aspirus Wausau Hospital
- Description: Registered Nurse, Admission and Transfer RN
- Contract Length: 13 Weeks
- Start Date: ASAP
- Guaranteed Hours Per Week: 36 hrs
- Shift Requirements: 12 hr Days or nights/Variable start times
7am, 11am, 1pm and 7pm
- Weekend/Holiday Requirements: Every other weekend and every
other holiday
- Job Requirements
- Required Certifications: WI RN License, AHA or ARC BLS
- Minimum Experience: 3-5 yrs ICU or ER experience (5 yrs
experience preferred)
- Trauma level II experience REQUIRED
- Transfer Call Center Experience required
- Charting Experience: EPIC REQUIRED
- Schedule Information
- Shift Requirements: 12 hr Days or nights/Variable start times
7am, 11am, 1pm and 7pm
- Weekend/Holiday Requirements: Every other weekend and every
other holiday
- Unit Specific Information
- Unit Information: Admissions and Transfer Center
- 2 RNs working Nights - 2-4 RNs working Days
- Scrub Colors: any color scrubs or business casual
- Additional Details
- Radius Rule: Contractors must be outside a 50 mile radius of
Aspirus Wausau
- Unit Information: Admissions and Transfer Center
- Communication is a critical part of the role.
- Facilitates consults and transfers for patient placement for 16
Aspirus hospitals.
- Responsible for coordinating patient admissions from other
healthcare facilities and physician offices and clinics.
- Follows protocols, policies and algorithms along with
demonstrates understanding of Aspirus system and regulatory
requirements for Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act
(EMTALA).
- Anticipates admission needs and communicates findings with the
transferring department and collaborates to obtain optimal patient
flow across the system.
- Coordinates across all disciplines to coordinate patient
transfers, including disposition, ambulance transportation,
specialist referrals, etc.
- Provides estimated time of arrival to both referring and
accepting sites as well as pertinent information for timely hand
off between facilities.
- Responsible for accurate documentation and tracking of all
patient transfers into and out of the Aspirus system.
- Facilitates the movement of patients for any leave of absence
procedures or testing within the Aspirus system.
- Adjusts day-to-day operations to provide efficient acceptance
for critically ill patients by collaborating closely with the bed
planning teams at the tertiary care sites and proactively having
awareness of bed availability.
- Identifies opportunities to improve the patient experience by
efficient facilitation of transfers to the most appropriate bed and
reduce patients boarding in the emergency departments.
- Uses critical thinking skills to provide the best course of
action for patient care while ensuring placement of the right
patient in the right bed.
- Remotely engages with facility staff to monitor and document
transfer need: communicates patient condition to sending or
receiving providers and facilities.
- Accurately completes effective and expedient placement of
patients from all nursing units.
- Utilizes the chain of command to advocate for a patient's need
of priority admission or transfer to higher level of care.
- Plans, implements, and evaluates patient needs based on
reported assessment to optimize outcomes and maximize available
resources.
- Remotely triages using critical care of emergency department
experience to identify patient care needs providing expert and
timely recommendations for correct facility transfer based on
patient's acuity, service required, condition, circumstances, and
area facility capacity and capability matrixes.
Keywords: Aspirus Wausau Hospital, Appleton , Travel Nurse RN - ED - Emergency Department - $2,602 per week, Healthcare , Wausau, Wisconsin
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