Registered Nurse: Internal Bed Placement, Full Time Nights

RN Patient Logistics

Shift: Nights, 3x12 shifts, 1900 - 1730, with fair share of weekends and holiday track

Work Arrangement: On-Site Department: Patient Logistics

Facility: University Hospital, 1 Hospital Drive, Columbia, MO

Compensation:

Base Pay Range: $32.82 - $48.27/hour, based on experience

Shift Differentials: Additional $4.00/hour for nights and $3.00/hour for weekend shifts

About the Job

MU Health Care is looking for a highly organized, detail-oriented RN with excellent communication skills to join our team! The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, is a natural problem-solver, and excels in coordinating multiple tasks seamlessly. If you're passionate about ensuring smooth patient transitions and love collaborating with diverse teams, this role is for you. You'll be at the heart of patient care, facilitating vital processes to ensure efficient patient flow across our facilities. This is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact by supporting our mission to deliver outstanding care, while sharpening your administrative and clinical support skills!

About MU Health Care

MU Health Care is proud to be named one of Forbes' Best-in-State Employers seven years in a row, and that's largely a result of the incredible culture and team we've built. At MU Health Care, we have an inspired, hard-working and collaborative environment driven by our mission to save and improve lives. Here, we believe anything is possible and rally around solutions. We celebrate innovation and offer opportunities to be a part of something bigger to have a voice and role in the work that is serving our community and changing the field of medicine.

Our academic health system the only in mid-Missouri is home to seven hospitals, including the region's only Level 1 Trauma Center and region's only Children's Hospital, as well as over 90 specialty clinics. Here you can define your career among our many clinical and nonclinical positions with growth, opportunity and support every step of the way.

Employee Benefits

Health, vision and dental insurance coverage starting day one

Generous paid leave and paid time off, including ten holidays

Multiple retirement options, including 100% matching up to 8% and full vesting in three years

Tuition assistance for employees (75%) and immediate family members (50%)

Discounts on cell phone plans, rental cars, gyms, hotels and more

Detailed Job Description

Manage all bed requests by utilizing teletracking including targeting units for admissions based on patient status order. Transfer and assign beds, and manage patient readiness move alerts.

Create new encounters for patients moving to hospice care and infant birth encounters.

Communicate with nursing units at Capital Region Medical Center and University Hospital. Manage miSecure accounts and notifications in teletracking, answer calls regarding patient movement and arrival to units, and notify the physician team of patient movement.

Act as a resource for nursing units regarding teletracking.

Manage patient arrival in Cerner including the review and submission of insurance eligibility.

Review and initiate planned patient orders.

Perform chart review for clinical status and bed placement.

Communicate with the House Manager to ensure patient throughput through facilities.

Participate in policy review and writing as needed

Facilitate communication during system downtime by manually completing bed requests with documentation on downtime logs, notification of clinical units of expected patient movement/bed assignments, and post-downtime system data entry.

May complete unit/department-specific duties as outlined in department documents.

Required Qualifications

Missouri Board of Nursing RN or Nurse Licensure Compact multi-state RN. When primary state of residency changes, compact state RNs must apply under new state of residency within thirty (30) days.

One (1) year of nursing experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Additional license/certification requirements as determined by the hiring department.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met with or without reasonable accommodation. The performance of these physical demands is an essential function of the job. The employee may be required ambulate, remain in a stationary position and position self to reach and/or move objects above the shoulders and below the knees. The employee may be required to move objects up to 10 lbs.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer.