Bed Management RN: Patient Flow & Care Coordination

CommonSpirit Health; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health is seeking a Patient Logistics RN to oversee, coordinate, and facilitate comprehensive care delivery during shifts. You will lead bed assignments across multiple hospitals, serving as the communication link between care teams and referring stakeholders.

Ideal candidates bring strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills, with expertise in bed management and patient logistics to coordinate care across divisions and hospital sites.

Qualifications

• 3 years clinical experience
• Bachelors Of Nursing
• #LI-CSH

Responsibilities

• Receives bed placement requests, evaluates all available hospital beds and initiates, promotes and/or participates in interdisciplinary collaboration regarding patient placement; keeps abreast of bed demand/availability/status information in order to ensure patients are placed in the appropriate bed at the right time.
• Develops contingency patient placement plans with operational charge staff to ensure daily patient operations are not interrupted; continually re-evaluates requests as necessary to assure timely and appropriate bed assignments and optimal turnaround.
• Monitors staffing and patient information to maintain real-time awareness patient demands, including patient location, acuity, risk factors, and turnaround times.
• Maintains communication with appropriate stakeholders regarding bed availability or access delays; facilitates ongoing communication across work units regarding patient flow/bed placement status/issues.
• Identifies anticipated patient admissions/transfers/discharges and ascertains potential bed availability on an organizational basis; maintains ongoing communication with the Emergency Departments, other requesting units and Transfer Center to identify shifting priorities/needs for beds.
• Gathers clinical information to clarify clinical acuity and other relevant information bearing on bed and/or hospital placement that is consistent with criteria for the patient’s needs.

Skills

Bed management

Patient logistics

Leadership

Communication

Education

BSN

Job description

CommonSpirit Health is seeking a Patient Logistics RN to oversee, coordinate, and facilitate comprehensive care delivery during shifts. You will lead bed assignments across multiple hospitals, serving as the communication link between care teams and referring stakeholders.

Ideal candidates bring strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills, with expertise in bed management and patient logistics to coordinate care across divisions and hospital sites.