Patient Flow RN

CommonSpirit Health • Houston, TX

2d

About The Position

As a Patient Flow Nurse, you will optimize patient movement throughout the hospital, ensuring efficient transitions between departments, units, and levels of care. Your role minimizes wait times and maximizes bed utilization. Every day you will assess bed availability, patient acuity, and discharge readiness, proactively managing admissions, transfers, and discharges. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, resolving logistical challenges and prioritizing patient movement based on clinical urgency and resources. To be successful in this role, you need strong critical thinking, a comprehensive understanding of hospital operations, and exceptional communication. Your calm, swift decision-making and mediation skills in dynamic situations are essential for seamless patient progression. Assess bed demand, status, and flow of patients through the hospital to include changes in level of care, Transfer Center, Emergency Department, Minor Emergency Centers, Day Surgery, Cath Lab, direct admits, and any other point of entry into the hospital Facilitate timely discharges through the collaboration with physicians, nurses, and Centers for Integrated Care Intervene appropriately in decision making on patient placement, transfers and discharges based on patient care needs and level of care criteria Obtain clinical reports from transferring floor or referring hospital to determine if the patient meets the level of care requested Familiarity with government regulations, TMF, HCFA, to ensure compliance for level of care Identify level of care, based on established governmental, non‐governmental and hospital guidelines for emergent and non‐emergent admissions

Requirements

• Associate Of Nursing and Three (3) Years of experience , upon hire
• Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire

Responsibilities

• Assess bed demand, status, and flow of patients through the hospital to include changes in level of care, Transfer Center, Emergency Department, Minor Emergency Centers, Day Surgery, Cath Lab, direct admits, and any other point of entry into the hospital
• Facilitate timely discharges through the collaboration with physicians, nurses, and Centers for Integrated Care
• Intervene appropriately in decision making on patient placement, transfers and discharges based on patient care needs and level of care criteria
• Obtain clinical reports from transferring floor or referring hospital to determine if the patient meets the level of care requested
• Familiarity with government regulations, TMF, HCFA, to ensure compliance for level of care
• Identify level of care, based on established governmental, non‐governmental and hospital guidelines for emergent and non‐emergent admissions

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees