Nurse Liaison Job Description
Nurse liaison
provides nursing services, including parenteral therapy for patients consistent with VNSNY philosophy, policy and Standards of Nursing Practice.
Nurse Liaison Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective nurse liaison job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included nurse liaison job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Educate members on health topics and condition management in one-on-one coaching and small group (diabetes, heart disease, nutrition, exercise)
Identify and maintain knowledge of regional and national speakers
Responsible for building relationships with regional/national nursing key opinion leaders
Evaluate patients in a timely manner to assess goals and needs for Acute Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation (ACIR) admission
Discuss findings with Patient, Physiatrist, Attending MD, Nurse Practitioner, Resident, Physician Assistants, Therapist, Social Worker, family members
Provides coordination for the delivery of patient care services
Assesses identified patients/families for services required or requested
Identified Hospice patients that are general inpatient appropriately, ensure patient is admitted and continuous assessment is done as needed by the identified clinician(s)
Meets with identified potential patients and/or families
Identifies appropriate services to be delivered
Nurse Liaison Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Nurse Liaison
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, BLS, C.H.P.N, FIM, BCLS, CRRN, SPS, CPHON, CPON, FMLA
Education for Nurse Liaison
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the nurse liaison job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Nursing, Secondary Education, Education, Graduate, Marketing, Healthcare, School of Nursing, Social Work, Science, Communications
Skills for Nurse Liaison
Desired skills for nurse liaison include:
Infusion Nursing standards and nursing process
Community resources for referral and community outreach
URAC/NCQA standards
Current regulations governing Medicare / Medicaid and private insurance company reimbursement processes
Medicare guidelines
Proficiency in nursing principles and practice of intravenous therapy
Contract terms/stipulations
Patient acuity levels
Various data systems
Along with MC/MA requirements for skilled nursing
Desired experience for nurse liaison includes:
As the representative of SHC, is fully engaged with the members of the case management department, the clinical staff, physicians, including hospitalists, nursing homes and other referrers most importantly, with the patients and their family/caregivers
Presents SHC as a resource and leader in enabling patients to be discharged home as soon as possible, by arranging for patients to receive high quality post-acute care in the home, provided by SHC
Maintains accurate and ongoing documentation of all patient/family contact and discharge planning activities or actions in accordance with individual facility policies and procedures related to documentation in clinical records
Facilitates communication between the office, clinical staff, physicians and patients
Effectively communicates the role of the liaison nurse to all professional and lay customers
Represents SHC in the Hospitals and in the community, across the Steward family of services
Nurse Liaison Examples
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Nurse Liaison Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a nurse liaison. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for nurse liaison
- Works collaboratively with admission personnel, administrators and physicians in the admission process
- Develops relationships and educates referral sources on services provided by the hospital
- Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide appropriate care for patient populations served in the Cardiac Service Line
- Demonstrate knowledge to assess, plan, evaluate, and document patient care in coordination with the health care team
- Function as a liaison between nursing units, physicians, patients, and families
- Coordinate all aspects of ACC NCDR Registry functions including data collection, data submission, daily quality report issues and participate in NCDR conference calls and webinar training
- Maintain a safe work environment including adherence to organizational policies and procedures and National Patient Safety Goals
- Participate in quality improvement initiatives as assigned
- Support Sales and Marketing through educational programs, tours, meetings, in assigned hospitals, physician offices, community agencies
- Facilitates modification to clinical documentation supporting the clinical picture/level of severity to all patients at the hospital for DRG based payors
Qualifications for nurse liaison
- Must have demonstrated competence in all aspects of customer service, sales and marketing
- Thorough knowledge of third party reimbursement and regulatory requirements
- Must be liscensed as an RN, PT or OT
- Multi-state licensure required based on assigned geographical territory
- BLS certification current *Obtain / maintain within timeframes required by hospital policy
- 1 year Med/Surg preferred
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Nurse Liaison Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of nurse liaison. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for nurse liaison
- Assures timely, accurate and complete documentation of clinical information used for measuring and reporting physician and hospital outcome data through ongoing performance monitoring
- Collaborates with the HIM coding staff to assist in understanding/clarification of documentation leading to appropriately assigning DRG representing the patient severity of illness/resource consumption
- Reviews and analyzes designated patients medical record documentation to assess the level of documentation completeness and accuracy
- Proactively engage physicians in discussions to clarify documentation to ensure medical record reflects the patient’s severity of illness
- Maintains knowledge of Medicare and DRG regulations and stays abreast of new trends
- Maintains timely and up to date documentation of case management activities in Cerner or other system as appropriate
- Understands and complies with all licensure and credentialing agencies
- Demonstrate strong organizational skills and demonstrated leadership ability
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills adaptable to a wide variety of interpersonal encounters with entire healthcare team
- In-depth understanding of the hospital patient care environment
Qualifications for nurse liaison
- Prefer health care experience in sales/ business development
- Graduate of RN program required
- RN in the State of Maryland and DC
- Two (2) years home care or home care discharge planning experience preferred
- Demonstrated excellence in sales, nursing assessment, home care planning and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrates the ability to develop and maintain supportive, collaborative relationships with physicians
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Nurse Liaison Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of nurse liaison. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for nurse liaison
- Nursing leadership experience (preferred)
- Graduated from accredited school of nursing as Registered Nurse
- Minimum 3 years acute hospital nursing experience
- Hospital Case Management Experience (preferred)
- Medical Coding experience (preferred)
- Current Florida RN license in clear standing
- Works collaboratively with the primary team to ensure timely chemo orders and timely coordination of chemo admissions
- Performs personnel procedures including payroll (time & attendance) and progressive disciplinary action in a timely and accurate manner
- Participates in life wings as a method of process improvement
- Manage unit's customer service indicators including the preparation, analysis, and submission of required reports
Qualifications for nurse liaison
- Active RN licensure within the State of Florida
- Current APHON provider status
- CPON/CPHON certification
- Performs hospital or facility screening
- Uses the assigned state vehicle however, if not available, use of personal vehicle is expected with reimbursement of gas mileage per policy
- Makes onsite visits State wide to evaluate prospective patients for admissions
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Nurse Liaison Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of nurse liaison. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for nurse liaison
- Discusses medical issues, nursing care and rehabilitation status and goals with appropriate staff as necessary (confidentially with internal and external persons)
- Interviews prospective patients and informs him/her of LSH programs
- Obtains signatures for appropriate consent forms
- Summarizes medical, financial, psychosocial data, discharge plan and presents this assessment with recommendations to the physician reviewing cases for admission
- Requesting that a discharge summary, patient care referral and/or any other pertinent information accompanying the patient at the time of admission to LSH
- Informing LSH staff of special needs that the patient may require
- Is knowledgeable about Medicare, Medicaid, OBRA, PASAR, HMO, and managed care contact regulations
- Is familiar with levels of care as defined by individual payer sources (MCR, MCD, Managed Care)
- Establishes and maintains contact with case managers and social workers from referring hospitals by phone, in person, by mailings and by formal presentations
- Provides hospital tours to interested groups
Qualifications for nurse liaison
- BSN degree from an accredited school of nursing
- Informs families of prospective patients and the general public about hospital programs and provide family tours as requested
- Intercedes if problems should arise regarding admissions and attempts to resolve conflict and/or refer to appropriate parties
- Act as liaison between LSH and health provider agencies to facilitate admissions for difficult to hospitalize, “special” populations
- Backup as Case Management Nurse when necessary
- Must hold a current RN or LPN license
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Nurse Liaison Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a nurse liaison. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for nurse liaison
- Serve as a public awareness representative for the Agency, and responsible for public and internal education relative to Hospice services available through the Agency and payor sources, especially the Care Connections Program
- Meet and/or exceed performance goals as set by their Administrator with approval from Senior Management
- Coordinate and arrange hospice services between hospitals, long term care facilities and home medical equipment associated with a clinical referral
- Act as a clinical resource, and educate hospital staff regarding the services offered by Hospice, and contribute to patient care as it relates to the discharge plan
- Provide information to ensure a smooth transition to hospice care for patients and their families following hospitalization
- Travel to multiple sites during the workweek as required
- Evaluate and coordinate admissions for skilled nursing care center for sister-facilities with appropriate team members
- Must be able to work on a weekend rotation that will include Saturdays only with a day off during the week
- An amazing leader and colleagues We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class
- Receives and evaluates patient referrals to determine if they need complex care
Qualifications for nurse liaison
- Must be willing to traval
- One (1) year experience working with perioperative computer information systems
- Clinical experience in an acute care hospital surgical setting
- Must possess current Basic Life Support (BLS) certificate
- Knowledge of direct patient care processes, care planning, and surgical suite patient processes
- Must be an effective negotiator and consensus builder and be able to work effectively with diverse groups of people