Patient Placement Center RN Coord

As an experienced Registered Nurse, the RN Transfer Coordinator is responsible for the intake and logistics of facilitating outside hospital patient transfer requests for all clinical divisions and acuities. Tasks include: identification and triage of calls to appropriate service lines, communication with accepting physicians, coordination with UVA’s Medical Transport Network dispatch team (MEDCOM), coordination with UVA Bed Center, and serving as the primary liaison between referring facilities, UVA physicians, nursing, and ancillary staff, in order to facilitate safe and efficient patient transfer. Coordinator is responsible for communicating with various internal and external customer involved with patient transfers and medical center operations, and initiate appropriate escalate for services if needed. Coordinator will use clinical experience and knowledge to gather the appropriate clinical information needed to provide patient clinical presentations and updates to UVA physician teams, and will escalate any identified concerns for patient condition changes to the appropriate teams, based on the information provided by the referring facility.