Pre-Procedure Assessment Nurse
Pre-Procedure Assessment Nurse
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Job Description
Childrens Minnesota is one of the largest pediatric health systems in the United States and the only health system in Minnesota to provide care exclusively to children from before birth through young adulthood. An independent and notforprofit system since 1924 Childrens Minnesota is one system serving kids throughout the Upper Midwest at two freestanding hospitals nine primary care clinics multiple specialty clinics and seven rehabilitation sites. As The Kids Experts in our region Childrens Minnesota is regularly ranked by U.S. News & World Report as a top childrens hospital. Find us on Facebook @childrensminnesota or on Twitter and Instagram @childrensmn. Please visit childrensMN.
Childrens Minnesota is proud to be recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of 2023s Top Diversity Leaders. The national honor recognizes the top diverse healthcare executives and organizations influencing public policy care delivery and promoting diversity equity and inclusion in their organizations and the industry.
Department Overview
The preprocedure assessment center is a team of nurses working prior to hospital arrival with all patients and families to ensure a consistent comprehensive preparation for anesthesia. This team works through review of patient medical records verbal conversation with parents use of multiple patient digital health platforms and as members of the multidisciplinary healthcare team. Collaborating with multidisciplinary team to holistically meet needs of the patient and family this professional nursing team decreases risk to the patient planning to receive anesthesia and decreases delays and cancelation of surgical procedures.
Position Summary
The Pre Procedure Assessment Center Registered Nurse works to prepare patients and families prior to hospital arrival. Responsible for facilitating family participation in digital patient health platforms this role serves as an expert in the utilization of these platforms. Collaborating with the multidisciplinary team external clinics and resources this role works to ensures comprehensive preparation of all aspects of pre hospital care including but not limited to prompt accurate complete patient pre registration prior authorization medical social and other financial and resources needed. This position is located within the Periop Pre Procedure Assessment Center environment and has no direct patient interaction. Hours of work will vary in order to meet patient care needs.
Registered Nurse
*Current BLS
*Two years recent perioperative nursing experience preferred
*Prefer pediatric or perianesthesia nursing certification or obtained within 6 months
*Prefer experience with facilitation and coordination of prior authorization
*Prefer familiarity with revenue cycle management including GE Centricity or similar billing management patient demographics reporting and analytics
*Prefer familiarity with CPT and diagnostic coding
*Prefer fluency in writing and speaking; Spanish or Somali
Education:
*BSN/BAN Preferred
Knowledge/Skills and Abilities:
*Understanding of and adherence to organizational risk compliance regulatory and accrediting bodies guidelines
*Ability to influence through excellent communication and collaboration with all patients and families multidisciplinary team members all internal departments and external clinics
*Extensive experience with complex pediatric patients and families
*Technical knowledge and competence utilizing multi modal platforms for meeting perioperative patient and family pre hospital requirements
*Familiarity with centralized scheduling and registration Understanding of specialty clinic operations
*Understanding of patient insurance and implications of payor mix public and private insurance coverage as well as the impact of inadequate insurance coverage to the family and organization
*Ability to provide wholistic patient and family evaluations prior to hospital arrival including but not limited to assistance and or referral for needs identified primarily through the use of the digital patient health platforms and PPAC standards this includes internal/external referrals and necessary coordination of needed pre hospital arrival appointments
*Ability to assess and immediately address issues related to social determinants of health including but not limited to internal referrals to social work Childrens Healthcare Legal Partnership and or consultation with risk management
*Demonstrated ability to function as part of a team and form positive collaborative relationships with patients and families Childrens staff external clinics and community resources
*Excellent critical thinking skills; demonstration of leadership abilities and an established history of independent decision making
The posted salary represents a market competitive range based on salary survey benchmark data for similar roles in the local or national market. When determining individual pay rates we carefully consider a wide range of factors including but not limited to market indicators for the specific role the skills education training credentials and experience of the candidate internal equity and organizational needs.
In addition to your salary this position may be eligible for medical dental vision retirement and other fringe benefits. Positions that require night weekend or oncall work may be eligible for shift differentials or premium pay.
All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of an occupational health assessment drug screen background investigation and compliance with the U.S. Government Form I9 Employment Eligibility Verification.
Childrens Minnesota is proud to be an equal opportunity employer whose staff is representative of its community and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race color creed sex religion national origin sexual orientation genetic information gender identity or expression age veteran status disability pregnancy citizenship status or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state or local law.
Employment Type
Full Time
