RN HOSPITAL TRIAGE PRN

Summary:
Our Triage Nurse performs over telephone care coordination and professional nursing functions to assess the severity of the patient's health concerns using protocols in a manner that provides patient dispositions to emergency care or clinic provider.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Current Texas RN License or Compact license with Multi State privileges.
• Two (2) years of Ambulatory clinical nursing experience or emergency room experience is preferred.
• Strong communication sills and the ability to facilitate team-based care.
• Night shift - Varied hours, alternating weekends.
Job Duties

1. Utilizes strong listening skill to be able to interpret subtle indications of the patient's complaint so that they can form a thorough assessment of the patient's problem without the ability to visually observe or assess.
2. Follows clinic specific protocols and/or professional judgment and assessment skills to identify the nature and urgency of patient needs to determine the appropriate disposition.
3. Provides patient education and advice to improve continuity of care, avoid unnecessary visits to the emergency room and reduce risks from medical complications.
4. Collects sufficient data related to the presenting problem and medical history and recognizes and mates symptom patterns to those in clinic protocols to be able to provide safe, timely disposition of health-related problems.
5. Refills medications per clinic specific protocols.
6. Establish and maintain ongoing communication with internal stakeholders and external customers while securing the patient's admission or internal transfer.
7. Apply clinical expertise and the nursing process to triage and prioritize admission acuity from multiple locations: direct admits, external transfers, ED, onsite clinics and private physician offices.
8. Ensure smooth functioning of the patient placement process to reduce wait times and avoid unnecessary movement of patients, serves as an expert clinical resource for patient placement
9. Facilitate the direct admit process by interacting with physicians to ensure telephone triage results in appropriate patient placement.
10. Notifies Administrative Coordinator or Manager concerning admissions that do not meet the hospitals criteria.
11. Continually seeks new ways to improve processes and increase efficiencies and takes the initiative to communicate recommendations to Administrative Coordinator or Manager.
12. Duties performed may include one or more of the following core functions: (a) Directly interacting with or caring for patients; (b) Directly interacting with or caring for human-subjects research participants; (c) Regularly maintaining, modifying, releasing or similarly affecting patient records (including patient financial records); or (d) Regularly maintaining, modifying, releasing or similarly affecting human-subjects research records.
13. Performs other duties as assigned.

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.
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This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code • 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.
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