Serve as a resource for wound care, wound vac and photography, IV, specialty bed approval; Responding to Rapid Response calls, assuring appropriate calls, documentation, and evaluation; Serving on Code Blue/ Code PALS team, assuring appropriate documentation, patient placement, follow up; Provides one on one staff education and mentoring; Assists in assessing and documentation competency of staff members; Provides peer review of colleagues; Role modeling handling conflict and difficult situations with peers and other disciplines; Assisting staff in finding appropriate policies and procedures toward appropriate decision making; Demonstrating how to access knowledge based resources 24/7, including various intranet based resources and proctored Health Resource Center access to address emergency patient care needs; Demonstrates knowledge of Magnet and regulatory requirements, role modeling, teaching, monitoring, and providing appropriate feedback. Major Responsibilities: Throughput: Works collaboratively with Transfer Center, physicians, family members, other departments, Charge Nurses, EC, etc., to expedite throughput and achieve throughput goals; Assures timely throughput patient processes via encouraging/ expediting "pull" behavior, effective proactive discharge planning, utilization of technology to enable communication and flow and monitoring/ intervening to assure appropriate turnaround times; Assigns critical care beds; Expedites transfers out of EC and Critical Care to floor; Expedites discharges via use of Non-Emergency Transportation/ taxi vouchers/ family conversations, etc.