Patient Flow RN

Where You'll Work

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is an 881-bed quaternary care academic medical center that is a joint venture between Baylor College of Medicine and CHI St. Luke's Health. Located in the Texas Medical Center, the hospital is the home of the Texas Heart® Institute, a cardiovascular research and education institution founded in 1962 by Denton A. Cooley, MD. The hospital was the first facility in Texas and the Southwest designated a Magnet® hospital for Nursing Excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, receiving the award five consecutive times. Baylor St. Luke's also has three community emergency centers offering adult and pediatric care for the Greater Houston area.

Job Summary and Responsibilities

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

Job Requirements

Required

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