Clinical Logistics Bed Placement Coordinator

Inova Center for Personalized Health – High Reliability Operations Center “HROC” is looking for a dedicated Clinical Logistics Coordinator - Bed Placement Registered Nurse (RN) – focused on Pediatrics to join the team. This role will be full-time, 3-12-hour nights one week + 2-12-hour nights the next, 7:00 p.m. - 7:00 a.m. (self-scheduling); rotating weekends, about every 3rd weekend. Please note the department operates 24/7. NO telework option - role is on-site.

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation. 

Featured Benefits:

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions – starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
• Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, & flexible work schedules.

Clinical Logistics Coordinator - Bed Placement Registered Nurse (RN) Job Responsibilities:

• Assigns patients to the right care site while promoting positive outcomes related to patient bed placement.
• Coordinates with the Inova Transfer Center and care sites to balance patient volumes across care sites.
• Obtains information on patient admissions originating from the ED, PACU, direct admissions and transfers from other facilities while determining the appropriateness of admission
• Collaborates with care-site-based team members on challenging admissions to find appropriate patient placement.
• Facilitates daily capacity/flow meetings with all care sites, leads efforts to problem solve during high census periods, and helps develop action plans and implements interventions aimed at reducing patients boarding and / or waiting on admission to specialty care sites
• Collaborates and directs patient flow coordinators effectively in prioritizing appropriate bed placement of all patient types upon notification of admission or transfer.
• Monitors EPIC bed planning and bed board modules at all times and proactively uses the information to plan bed availability based on current census, OR cases, discharges and historical data.
• Orients new team members to patient flow initiatives, demand capacity flow and creates awareness of the importance of patient flow within the organization.
• Maintains awareness of staffing levels in key departments that may impact patient flow such as EVS, transport and nursing.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelors Degree in Nursing
• Experience: 3 years clinical nursing experience in acute care setting
• Certification: Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association. Licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience: peds med/surg, critical care, and/or emergency department ED background

We are Inova, Northern Virginia’s leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 25,000+ team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we're a national leader in healthcare safety, quality and patient experience. And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we're constantly striving to be ever better — to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare. 

Inova Health System is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.