Capacity Management Rn

CAPACITY MANAGEMENT RN – P/T WITH BENEFITS – DAYS

Apply for the CAPACITY MANAGEMENT RN – P/T WITH BENEFITS – DAYS role at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute.

At Hackensack Meridian Health, we help our patients live better, healthier lives across our hospitals and care facilities. Our team members are the heart of what makes us better, and we are committed to supporting one another and our community while advancing our mission to transform healthcare.

• Collaborative
• Courageous
• Compassionate
• Creative
• Connected

The Capacity Management RN is responsible for all activities related to capacity management, including coordinating patient placement, access case management, and patient flow to provide appropriate, effective, and efficient care. The RN works to remove barriers and bottlenecks, communicates with nurse managers, physicians, and administrators, and delivers daily capacity plans.

• Uses clinical expertise to coordinate the placement of elective and emergent admissions and transfers according to clinical standards, ensuring patients are admitted to the most appropriate available bed.
• Is clinically knowledgeable of disease entities, epidemiology, and circumstances affecting placement.
• Assures communication and implementation of the capacity plan for the day as defined at the daily bed meeting.
• Communicates daily plan to evening staff and supervisors to maintain implementation and focus.
• Reviews patient conditions as needed, independently or with case management staff, to ensure appropriate placement.
• Tracks bed availability, maintaining logs and records.
• Works directly with Plant Ops and Environmental Services on daily Room of the Day (ROD).
• Provides direct oversight of the Daily Census Bed Reports (3 times a day).
• Walks rounds on all nursing units to identify barriers to discharge, build relationships, and educate staff.
• Monitors bed availability on all units and pending discharges to meet ADT needs of cath lab, etc. (details omitted for brevity).
• Serves as a resource to placement staff regarding unit capacity and equipment policies.
• Makes recommendations to the Director for closing or downsizing units and manages patient transfers during overflow.
• Communicates with the Director regarding impending needs for divert, OR holds, or cath lab delays, and calls additional bed meetings as needed.
• Maintains constant communication with ETC leadership and supervisors, facilitates transfers, and manages isolation and observation protocols.
• Transports patients to the floors as needed.

Education, Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing from an accredited program and three years of professional nursing experience.
• Knowledge of nursing principles, practices, and techniques.
• Knowledge of state and agency laws regulating professional nursing practice.
• Skill in verbal and written communication.
• Skill in applying professional nursing methods and techniques.
• Skill in maintaining effective working relationships.

• National certification desirable.
• Master's degree in nursing or related field.
• Previous experience in capacity management.

• NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License.

Minimum rate of $67,154.88 annually.

Compensation is benchmarked against market data and may vary based on experience, education, skills, location, internal equity, budgets, and grant funding.

We offer comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and retirement benefits.

HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH (HMH) IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding, genetic information, refusal to submit to a genetic test or provide results, atypical hereditary traits, national origin, nationality, ancestry, disability, marital status, liability for military service, or status as a protected veteran.

• Entry level

• Part-time

• Health Care Provider

• Hospitals and Health Care