Patient Flow Manager Procedural

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, our commitment to providing extraordinary health care begins with our team. Our extraordinary professionals are continuously discovering clinical innovations and enhanced access to the most up-to-date facilities, equipment, technologies and research protocols. We have a commitment to our employees to provide competitive rates and compensation programs. Cooper offers full and part-time employees a comprehensive benefits program, including health, dental, vision, life, disability, and retirement.

We also provide attractive working conditions and opportunities for career growth through professional development.

The Flow Manager’s primary responsibility will be to facilitate flow through the unit.

• Delegate care to the care teams and assignments, ensuring that workload is balanced and delegates tasks appropriately, employing resources as needed to assure quality and efficient care.
• Ensures staff coverage.
• Ensures the delivery of patient care through the coordination of customer services and the leadership and management of the Department at the direction of the Clinical Director/Director of Operations.
• This position assists the Director of Operations in coordinating interdepartmental and ancillary activities to ensure quality, cost-effective patient care.
• This position will support the department in Patient and Staff Engagement initiatives including but not limited to employee rounding, patient rounding with coaching staff, feedback and holding staff accountable to expected behaviors.
• Assists the Director of Operations in leading the patient care team to meet the needs of the customers and to achieve departmental objectives.
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for the direction and implementation of patient care services within the unit under the direction of the Director of Operations.
• Accountable for daily infection prevention practices.
• A designee will be appointed in the event the flow manager is not on-site.

The Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) is where patients come to recovery from a surgical procedure. PACU is located on the third floor of the Pavilion and Kelemen building. There is also an area on Pavilion
2. Patients here can often be sent home following the procedure or are admitted to the hospital. This is based upon the procedure performed and the necessary recovery needed. If admitted the patient is transferred to the appropriate floor for continued recovery and discharge. The PACU sees infants to geriatrics. Here the patients are closely monitor while they are waking up from the anesthesia they received during the procedure.

Depending on the procedure and the orders received from the physicians the patient will be discharged home or admitted to the hospital.

• A minimum of 1-2 years of clinical nursing experience in a procedure department and/or medical surgical unit with 1 year of demonstrated leadership abilities.

• Graduate from an NLN accredited school of nursing.
• BSN required.

• Current NJ-RN License (Registered Nurse)
• Current BLS (Basic Life Support)
• Current ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support)