Access Nurse

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**Applicants must reside in Florida and within a one hour travel distance to a CCF facility** 

Join the Cleveland Clinic team, where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-first healthcare. Cleveland Clinic is recognized as one of the top hospitals in the nation. At Cleveland Clinic, you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.      

As an Access Nurse, your work will focus on coordinating patient flow. In this position, you will facilitate hospital transfers and direct admissions, determine daily bed resources and oversee 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 or 11:00AM – 11:00PM. 

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• 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 to achieve optimal outcomes both clinically and financially for the patients and the organization. 

• Apply solid understanding of the complexities of the 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. 

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• 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 

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include: 

• Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN) 

• Two years of supervisory experience in a healthcare setting 

• Computer proficiency in Microsoft applications, bed management databases and Epic 

• Critical care experience 

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to perform in limited quarters, ground and air transport modes and in all types of terrain and weather conditions.
• Frequent bending, twisting, climbing steps or ladders, stooping, kneeling, and crouching.
• Medium Work - exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for light work.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility. 

If applying for a Florida position, please see the following website for more information on the background screening requirements required by the Agency of Health Care Administration: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/

Please review the Equal Employment Opportunity poster. 

Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.