Patient Placement Nurse, Capacity Management

Sutter Health•Sacramento, CA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for coordinating and optimizing patient flow in acute care facilities to ensure appropriate use of resources and timely patient care. This role involves collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to manage bed assignments, admissions, transfers, and discharges, balancing patient needs with health system capacity. The nurse works closely with hospital leadership, physicians, and other staff to assess real-time capacity data, predict future capacity challenges, and implement strategies to mitigate overcrowding. Strong clinical judgment, problem-solving, and communication skills are essential for ensuring smooth operations and delivering high-quality patient care.

Requirements

Graduate of accredited school of nursing.
RN-Registered Nurse of California - California Department of Consumer Affairs
2 years recent relevant experience
Strong clinical judgment, problem-solving, and communication skills are essential.

Nice To Haves

Critical Care, Charge, House Supervisor and/or Patient Placement RN experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Coordinating and optimizing patient flow in acute care facilities.
Ensuring appropriate use of resources and timely patient care.
Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to manage bed assignments, admissions, transfers, and discharges.
Balancing patient needs with health system capacity.
Working closely with hospital leadership, physicians, and other staff to assess real-time capacity data.
Predicting future capacity challenges and implementing strategies to mitigate overcrowding.
Demonstrates expertise and resourcefulness in level of care requirements, advanced nursing assessments, bed capacity management, service line capabilities, and acceptance pathways by care site.
Demonstrates expertise in development, implementation and evaluation of specific transfer and bed management program.
Demonstrates a high degree of critical thinking, problem solving and negotiating skills.
Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively with all interdisciplinary team members, referrals agencies, patients, families, and other services.
Demonstrates excellent customer service and professional administrative skills.
Regular attendance to perform work on site during regularly scheduled business hours or scheduled shifts is required.
Well-developed time management and organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize assignments and work within standardized operating procedures and scientific methods to achieve and meet deadline.
Work independently, as well as be part of the team, including accomplishing multiple tasks in an environment with interruptions.