RN - Transfer Center, Westwood

The Transfer Nurse acts as the central contact for the Transfer Center for the Department of Medicine, working closely with DOM faculty, chief residents, and fellows, with assisting in the coordination of patient transfers from community hospitals to internal medicine services and critical care units at Ronald Reagan/Santa Monica Hospitals. In this role you will be involved in quality and process improvement projects and initiatives surrounding the transfer process at UCLA. You must have a strong clinical background to be able to coordinate patient care needs.

Salary Range: $63.83 - $96.57/hourly

• Current California Registered Nurse license
• Graduation from an accredited nursing program (BSN or MSN)
• BLS from American Red Cross or American Heart Association
• Minimum 5 years of recent clinical nursing experience in an acute setting, transfer center or bed nurse experience.
• Experience in case management.
• Experience in quality/analysis experience.
• Experience with a variety of specialties and sub-specialties
• Skill in analyzing information, problems, situations, practices, and procedures to recognize alternatives and provide solutions.
• Skill in speaking clearly and using appropriate grammar. Must have pleasant and courteous telephone voice and manners.
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team while functioning independently, maintaining confidentiality in all assignments, and showing initiative in identifying and solving problems as they occur.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain composure when confronted by difficult situations and to respond professionally.
• Possesses strong customer service skills to promote pleasant and effective interactions with patients, staff, and doctors.
• Demonstrated ability to creatively integrate competing demands of a multidisciplinary setting into a productive working environment.
• Skill to organize workflow to accomplish established objectives.
• Ability to establish cooperative working relationships with administrators, physicians, peers, and the public.
• Skill in recognizing an emergency or high priority situation and taking appropriate and immediate action.
• Familiarity with nursing regulations, institutional standards of care and risk management.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to effectively work with a diverse team of individuals in-group settings.
• Experience with various computer software, knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and the internet.
• Ability to track data, advanced knowledge of excel, ability to create spreadsheets and graphs and present data to Leadership.
• Typing skills to prepare forms and correspondence with speed and accuracy.
• Advanced clinical knowledge of medical diagnoses, procedures, protocols, treatments, and terminology.

Preferred:

Familiarity with UCLA Health system