| Collaborate with hospital discharge planners and providers throughout the state about services provided at Benefis Teton Medical Center in order to provide appropriate referrals and transfers of patients to BTMC for post acute rehabilitation and recuperative needs. |
| Collaborate with providers, nursing staff, therapists, and DON for appropriate placement and transfer of patients to TMC swing bed or ELF status. |
| Collaborate with Business Services staff assisting with any financial concerns and coordination of financial assistance. |
| Screen hospital, swing bed, or ELF patients/residents within 24 hours of admit to identify complex patients who need discharge planning services and document in the EHR. With the exception of weekend admits, which will be screened on Mondays. |
| Comprehensively assess patients for functional abilities, illness and self care education needs, community resource needs, socioeconomic status and appropriate placement needs. Communicate and coordinate with nursing staff for assistance as necessary. |
| Work collaboratively with providers, therapies, nursing dietary, social work, business office, home care, and patient and families to develop discharge readiness goals and plans. |
| Facilitate patient education and referrals for needed services. |
| Provides education and assists hospital patients on the use and access of the patient portal |
| All other duties as assigned. |
| Maintains par levels of all medications and orders medications as necessary. |
| Monitors crash carts to ensure medications are available. |
| Monitors outdates of medications and disposes of them per protocol. |
| Reviews all medication variance forms and reports immediately to Administrator, DON and PI coordinator any sentinel events and any other events requiring immediate focused attention. Develops summarized reporting format to identify trends and forwards information to PI committee. |
| Maintains pharmacy policy manuals and assures yearly review of policies per CAH and Nursing Home Rules and Regulations. |
| Provides education to staff as necessary on any new policies. |
| Maintains hospital formulary and keeps the formulary updated in the EHR. |
| All other duties as assigned. |
| Maintains par levels of all medications and orders medications as necessary. |
| Monitors crash carts to ensure medications are available. |
| Monitors outdates of medications and disposes of them per protocol. |
| Reviews all medication variance forms and reports immediately to Administrator, DON and PI coordinator any sentinel events and any other events requiring immediate focused attention. Develops summarized reporting format to identify trends and forwards information to PI committee. |
| Maintains pharmacy policy manuals and assures yearly review of policies per CAH and Nursing Home Rules and Regulations. |
| Provides education to staff as necessary on any new policies. |
| Maintains hospital formulary and keeps the formulary updated in the EHR. |
| May assist with abstracting data from the EHR for quality reporting or QAPI process. |
| Reviews quality reports, identifies areas of improvement, and assists staff with developing PI projects. . |
| Assist with gathering risk information and compiling for QAPI process. |
| Demonstrates the ability to deal with pressure to meet deadlines, to be accurate, and to handle constantly changing situations. |
| Demonstrates the ability to deal with a variety of people, deal with stressful situations, and handle conflict. |
| Professional Requirements: |
| Adheres to dress code. |
| Completes annual educational requirements. |
| Maintains regulatory requirements. |
| Wears identification while on duty. |
| Maintains confidentiality at all times. |
| Attends department staff meetings as required within the department. |
| Reports to work on time and as scheduled; completes work in designated time. |
| Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner. |
| Actively participates in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities. |
| Coordinates efforts in meeting regulatory compliance, federal, state and local regulations and standards |
| Communicates and complies with the Benefis Health System Mission, Vision and Values as well as the focus statement of the department. |
| Complies with Benefis Health System Organization Policies and Procedures. |
| Complies with Health and Safety Standards and Guidelines. |
