Registered Nurse Hospitalist Coordinator PRN

Job Description:

The Hospitalist Coordinator RN plays a key role in supporting safe, efficient, and patient-centered care for hospitalized patients. This position serves as a clinical liaison between physicians, nurses, care managers, patients, and families to coordinate care, support communication, improve patient flow, and facilitate successful transitions throughout the hospital stay.

Combining clinical expertise with care coordination and patient advocacy, this role helps ensure exceptional outcomes and experiences for patients while supporting operational excellence across the Hospital Medicine service.

Hospitalist Coordinator RN
Alta View Hospital | Salt Lake City, Utah

Why Join Intermountain Health?
At Intermountain Health, we're committed to helping people live the healthiest lives possible. As a Hospitalist Coordinator RN, you'll play a key role in connecting patients, providers, and care teams to ensure seamless care coordination, improved communication, and an exceptional patient experience.

What You'll Love About This Role

Make a Difference Every Day
Support patients and families throughout their hospitalization by helping coordinate care and improve the overall patient experience.

Collaborative Environment
Work closely with hospitalists, nurses, case managers, pharmacists, social workers, and other interdisciplinary team members.

Dynamic and Diverse Practice
Provide support across multiple hospital medicine programs, including LDS Hospital, Intermountain Medical Center, Tele-Hospitalist, and Tele-EM services.

Professional Growth
Develop expertise in care coordination, patient throughput, healthcare operations, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Flexible PRN Schedule
PRN position providing coverage across three hospitalist service areas, offering variety and flexibility while maintaining meaningful clinical involvement.

Comprehensive Benefits
Intermountain Health offers competitive compensation, retirement benefits, professional development resources, tuition assistance, and caregiver wellness programs.

Shift Details:

·       Benefits Eligible: No

·       Shift Details: PRN, 8 shifts within a 4 month period

·       Department: Hospitalists

·       Primary Location: Alta View Hospital

·       Additional Details: 2+ years of med/surg or ICU experience preferred. Completion or in-progress BSN preferred.

Preferred Experience

• Three or more years of acute care nursing experience preferred

• Background in Medical/Surgical, ICU, Emergency Department, or other inpatient hospital settings strongly preferred

What You'll Do

• Coordinate daily patient assignments, census management, and workflow support for hospitalist providers.

• Review patient information prior to rounds, identify discharge barriers, and collaborate with care management and ancillary teams.

• Participate in interdisciplinary rounds to facilitate communication among providers, nurses, patients, and families.

• Support physician rounding activities by coordinating care plans, follow-up needs, and transitions of care.

• Assist with discharge planning, follow-up appointments, equipment needs, and continuity of care arrangements.

• Serve as a liaison between patients, families, providers, pharmacies, and community resources.

• Promote patient engagement through education, care coordination, and post-discharge support.

• Support patient safety, quality improvement, operational efficiency, and patient experience initiatives.

Why Alta View Hospital?
Alta View Hospital is a trusted community hospital dedicated to providing exceptional, patient-centered care close to home. As part of Intermountain Health, Alta View combines advanced clinical resources with a collaborative, community-focused environment where caregivers are empowered to make a meaningful difference every day. In this role, you'll partner with hospitalists and interdisciplinary teams to improve care coordination, support positive patient outcomes, and enhance the overall patient experience throughout the hospitalization journey.

Minimum Qualifications

• Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of practice.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers.
• Two years of clinical hospital experience.
• Basic computer proficiency.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• RNs hired or promoted into this role must obtain a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) within three years of hire or promotion if not already completed.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution. Education will be verified.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in hospital-based care coordination, case management, utilization review, or hospital medicine.
• Knowledge of patient throughput, discharge planning, and interdisciplinary care coordination.
• Experience with quality improvement, process improvement, or clinical operations initiatives.
• Familiarity with electronic medical records and healthcare information systems.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess patient needs.

• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.

• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, etc.

Location:

Intermountain Health Alta View Hospital

Work City:

Sandy

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

0

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$41.20 - $62.17

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

By applying for a position with Intermountain, I acknowledge that I will comply with all applicable Intermountain policies and expectations. If applying for a remote or hybrid role, this includes remote work expectations related to confidentiality, information security, work schedules, conflicts of interest, and use of company equipment. I further acknowledge that outside employment or activities may not interfere with job responsibilities or create a conflict of interest with Intermountain. Actual or reasonably perceived conflicts may be grounds for disqualification from consideration or, if hired, corrective action up to and including termination of employment.

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