RN Swing Bed/Trauma Coordinator, ALG Nsg Admin, Full Time, Days

RN Swing Bed/Trauma Coordinator, ALG Nsg Admin, Full Time, Days

• Allegan, MI
• ALG Nsg Admin
• Beacon Allegan
• Full-time - Day - M-F
• Req #: 228328

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Summary

Beacon Health System is hiring a Full-Time Days shift Registered Nurse Swing Bed/Trauma Coordinator for our Allegan NSG Admin Department at Allegan Hospital in Allegan, MI.

Type: Full-Time/FTE 1.00 (40 hrs/wk)

Shift: Days

Shift Details: Monday-Friday, Flexible Hours

We are proudly offering up to a $10,000 sign-on bonus to qualified candidates!

Be a Beacon. Make a Difference.

At Beacon Health System, you're not just part of a team, you're part of something bigger. Every patient interaction is a chance to lead with compassion, build trust, and create lasting impact. Here, your expertise supports healing, and your heart connects us to the communities we serve.

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• 403(b) Matching Retirement Fund
• Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Shift Differentials
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition and Certification Reimbursement
• Clinical Ladder Program
• Local and National Discounts
• Beacon Academy Educational Courses
• Gym Membership Discount

About Beacon Allegan

Beacon Allegan includes 25 staffed beds and delivers specialty and 24/7 emergency care. Services at the hospital include primary care, orthopedics, cancer, general surgery, radiology, pulmonology, dermatology, vascular, neurology, cardiac rehab and audiology. We also offer a wide range of minimally invasive procedures, imaging and lab tests, a dedicated inpatient rehabilitation center and a wound and hyperbaric center.

What You'll Do

As a Registered Nurse Swing Bed/Trauma Coordinator, you'll be responsible for the coordination, daily operations, growth, quality, and regulatory readiness of the hospital's Skilled Nursing Swing Bed and Trauma programs. The coordinator supports compassionate, timely, comprehensive, patient-centered care across the continuum by coordinating referrals, admission review, interdisciplinary care planning, discharge transitions, trauma patient navigation, education, performance improvement, and program outreach. The role works closely with physicians, nursing, case management, ancillary departments, post-acute providers, payers, patients, and families to promote safe transitions, appropriate utilization, program growth, and compliance with applicable hospital, regulatory, and verification standards.

Registered Nurse Swing Bed/Trauma Coordinator Job Responsibilities

• Coordinates the daily operations, ongoing development, education, promotion, and regulatory readiness of the Skilled Nursing Swing Bed Program.
• Reviews referrals and medical documentation to determine whether patients meet program admission criteria and whether the proposed level of care is appropriate.
• Meets with patients, families, and significant others to assess post-hospital needs, explain the program, and facilitate informed transitions to swing bed care.
• Collaborates with discharge planners, social workers, physicians, nursing, therapy, and other members of the interdisciplinary team to evaluate clinical readiness for transfer, admission, continued stay, discharge, or transfer of care.
• Maintains consistent communication with internal and external referral sources to support timely referrals, referral growth, census development, and efficient transitions of care.
• Coordinates a well-planned process from admission through discharge for medically complex swing bed patients, including transition to home or another post-acute setting.
• Provides clinical information requested by payers to support authorization, admission certification, and continued-stay review based on the patient condition and medical interventions.
• Participates in daily interdisciplinary rounding and serves as an educator and clinical resource for patients, families, physicians, and staff regarding swing bed services.
• Maintains program spreadsheets, referral information, utilization measures, and required reports to monitor program activity, outcomes, and opportunities for improvement.
• Coordinates and collaborates on care for trauma patients and monitors hospitalized trauma patients to support continuity, timely intervention, and effective transitions of care.
• Works collaboratively with the Trauma Medical Director, physicians, nursing leaders, and interdisciplinary departments in the planning, coordination, and implementation of trauma care processes and discharge planning.
• Coordinates trauma-related mental health and substance-use screening, intervention, education, referral, and follow-up processes required by the trauma program.
• Supports preparation for and maintenance of trauma center verification or designation by organizing required processes, documentation, education, and performance-improvement activities.
• Develops, reviews, and revises trauma policies, protocols, clinical pathways, patient education materials, and referral processes using current standards and literature.
• Tracks the use and effectiveness of trauma protocols and guidelines and coordinates the collection and reporting of patient outcome information.
• Acts as a liaison among patients, families, physicians, nursing, ancillary services, community resources, referral facilities, and post-acute providers to improve understanding of the plan of care.
• Assists with hospital and community outreach through education, health fairs, injury prevention, trauma-informed care activities, and other program awareness efforts.
• Supports trauma survivor resources and follow-up programming, including inpatient education and outpatient support activities, as applicable to the organization.
• Participate in applicable state and regional trauma meetings, committees, collaboratives, and educational activities.
• Identifies trauma cases meeting inclusion criteria and abstracts required patient, injury, treatment, outcome, and follow-up information into the trauma registry.
• Maintains accurate and timely trauma registry data through ongoing validation, discrepancy resolution, and adherence to applicable registry definitions and coding standards
• Completes required state and national trauma data submissions within established timeframes.
• Recognizes potential or actual patient-care concerns, investigates issues, intervenes when immediate attention is required, and communicates findings through the appropriate escalation pathway.
• Contributes to performance-improvement plans for both programs by collecting, validating, analyzing, and reporting data and identifying utilization trends, patterns, outcomes, and improvement opportunities.
• Ensures program operations comply with applicable accreditation, regulatory, professional, privacy, reimbursement, and organizational requirements.
• Reviews, interprets, and communicates relevant swing bed and trauma policies to staff, physicians, patients, families, and other stakeholders.
• Supports development of cost-efficient programs and provides input regarding operating needs, capital requests, equipment, supplies, and resources for the specialty areas.
• Serves on appropriate committees, councils, and task forces and completes assigned projects that support program effectiveness.
• Reviews trauma audit filters, quality indicators, and registry data trends and communicates findings through established performance-improvement processes.
• Produces trauma registry reports for committee review, quality improvement, regulatory reporting, and operational planning.
• Develops effective professional relationships with physicians, nursing, case management, rehabilitation, ancillary/support departments, referral partners, payers, and community organizations.
• Provides clear, timely communication and education in individual, group, formal, informal, and written settings.
• Assists with resolution of physician, patient, and family concerns and routes unresolved or high-risk issues to the appropriate leader.
• Maintains active participation in multidisciplinary care teams and promotes teamwork, accountability, and coordinated decision-making.

Organizational Responsibilities

• Attends and participates in department meetings and remains accountable for information shared.
• Completes mandatory education, annual competencies, department-specific education, and employee-health requirements within established timeframes.
• Maintains require licensure, certification, and registration in good standing. Maintains current BLS/CPR and other certifications required by the position or department.
• Use appropriate universal precautions, personal protective equipment, safe patient-handling practices, and ergonomic techniques.
• Participates in regulatory surveys and follows organizational and departmental policies, procedures, ethical standards, privacy requirements, and standards of conduct.
• Maintains flexibility to work additional hours, shifts, or schedules when operationally required.
• Completes other job-related assignments and special projects as directed.

What You Bring

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor of science in nursing, in addition to a current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state. You will have a minimum three years of related clinical experience, as well as experience in referral management, transitional care, case management, community health, skilled nursing/swing bed coordination, trauma care, or trauma program coordination. Prior experience caring for medically complex, post-acute, or trauma patient populations is preferred.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of science in nursing preferred.
• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state in which assigned is required.
• Minimum of three years of related clinical experience required.
• Experience in referral management, transitional care, case management, community health, skilled nursing/swing bed coordination, trauma care, or trauma program coordination is preferred.
• Prior experience caring for medically complex, post-acute, or trauma patient populations is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong knowledge of nursing care practices, medical and clinical processes, care transitions, discharge planning, and the needs of medically complex and trauma patients.
• Working knowledge of swing bed admission and continued-stay criteria, reimbursement and authorization processes, community resources, and post-acute levels of care.
• Working knowledge of trauma program standards, trauma-related screening and referral processes, performance improvement, and verification readiness.
• Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, data-management, project-planning, organization, and prioritization skills.
• Ability to independently manage a complex workload, respond effectively to changing priorities, and work under pressure.
• Excellent verbal, written, listening, education, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and tactfully with patients, families, physicians, staff, payers, referral partners, and community members.
• Demonstrated ability to use electronic health records, spreadsheets, reporting tools, and other computer applications required by the position.
• Strong customer service orientation and ability to promote teamwork while maintaining accountability and regulatory compliance.

Working Conditions

• Works in patient care, office, and community environments with frequent changes in job demands and potential mental stress related to complex clinical and communication needs.
• Requires schedule flexibility due to hospital operations and program needs.
• May require travel by vehicle to referral sources, healthcare facilities, community locations, and other organizational sites.
• May have occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens, biohazards, and other patient-care risks.

Physical Demands

• Requires the physical ability and stamina to perform the essential functions of the position, including prolonged standing or walking and responding within patient care areas.
• Must be able to perform CPR and complete patient care or transport-related activities consistent with organizational safe-lifting and assistance requirements.
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

The Beacon Way

Mission: We deliver outstanding care, inspire health, and connect with heart.

Values: Trust. Respect. Integrity. Compassion.

Service Goals: Personally connect. Keep everyone informed. Be on their team.

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