RN Transfer Center

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Responsible for meeting basic Job Standards for all Dignity Health Kern Market positions.
• Demonstrates knowledge of principles of growth and development over the life span and possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status. Interprets the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his age specific needs, and provides the care needed in the department policies and procedures. Demonstrates knowledge and skills to provide care appropriate to the age of patients served. Age specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards appropriate to the RN role in Bed Control.
• Performs a continuous evaluation of bed availability for Dignity Health Kern Market by obtaining information on bed availability, admissions, transfers, and utilization of resources from Admitting Departments, Unit Supervisors/Clinical Coordinators, Surgical Services, and the Nursing Staffing Office at Dignity Health Kern Market.
• Obtains complete clinical, demographic, and financial information to ensure an accurate preregistration is completed.
• Makes the determination for admissions and outpatient (observation) status placement into the acute facilities. Utilizes InterQual Severity of Illness/Intensity of Service (SI/IS) Criteria to ensure appropriate admissions and placement. Facilitates transfer to appropriate facility based on service line designation/capacity.
• Receives and provides information by effectively communicating with internal and external customers including physicians and their office staff, Admitting Departments, Unit Supervisors, Surgical Services, Emergency Services, and patient care units in a timely manner.

Required

• Education level necessary to obtain required licensure and certifications
• Minimum of (3) three years currentexperience in acute and/or ManagedCare., upon hire and
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire

Preferred

• Bachelors Of Nursing and Utilization Management, CaseManagement, Discharge Planning, and/orAdmission experience, upon hire

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital includes 385 general acute beds, 48 licensed critical care beds, 13 state-of-the-art surgical suites, and a full-service Emergency Department with an Accredited Chest Pain Center and Nationally Certified Stroke Center. In addition, we offer a beautiful Family Care and Birthing Center, the Lauren Small Children's Center including the area's only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Family Care Center, a Level II NICU, the Sarvanand Heart, and Brain Center with Kern County's first Bi-Plane Interventional Suite, the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics, and many more services. Memorial Hospital is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and is home to the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House. Memorial Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner, serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality, compassionate care since 1956. Click here to learn more about Bakersfield Memorial Hospital.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.