Registered Nurse, Nurse Manager, Patient Flow Center - Dallas, Texas - Manager

Company: VA North Texas health care
Location: Dallas
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Job Description:

Registered Nurse, Nurse Manager, Patient Flow Center - Dallas, Texas
Duties


VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package:

The Nurse Manager, is responsible and accountable for 24/7 operations of the inpatient flow unit, ensuring that nursing personnel provide timely nursing care which complies with accepted standards of clinical practice.

The Flow Center Nurse Manager is responsible for managing the staff from the Admission/Discharge Center, Bed Control, and the Transfer Coordinators. The manager will be responsible for coordinating flow improvement actions and serving as a member of all inpatient flow process improvement committees and workgroups. They are responsible for monitoring inpatient flow data as it applies to the Transfer Coordination processes, Bed Control processes, and Admission/Discharge processes. They will serve as the BMS point of contact for the facility and be responsible for attending national calls related to BMS and coordination of any suspense from the VISN or National Patient Flow Office.

They will serve on the Facility Emergency Management Committee as an ADHOC member and be responsible for using BMS to coordinate of any evacuation or patient surge do to an internal, local, or national emergency. The Flow Center Nurse Manager serves as a member of the VISN flow coordination BMS workgroup. They also serve as a member of the Inpatient Flow Workgroup and are responsible for reporting data from BMS, from the Transfer Coordinator database, and the Admission/Discharge Center databases. They are responsible for reporting the daily bed flow data to the Director in daily morning meeting and for updating the Chief of Staff and the Director on the hospital's diversion status due to bed capacity, bed closures, or other flow related problems.

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 12 paid Federal holidays per year)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: 7:30am- 4:00pm; Days, 24 hour responsibility of the unit. May be required to work other shifts, be on call, work weekends and/or holidays.
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

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