Night Shift RN - Patient Flow & Care Coordination

Henry Ford Health; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Henry Ford Health in Southfield, MI, is seeking a Nurse Capacity Management professional to coordinate patient flow across facilities and optimize throughput. This role involves end-to-end patient placement and care progression in partnership with medical and nursing staff.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, manage clinical expediting and transfers, and prioritize tasks to ensure timely patient care.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing.
• Three (3) years of clinical experience, or direct capacity management experience (systems that support patient flow, transfer, clinical expediting, and admission processes)
• Experience facilitating patient placement, transfer, or clinical expediting preferred.
• Experience with systems that support patient flow, admission, transfer, care progression and discharge processes preferred
• Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and produce detailed and accurate work.
• Excellent clinical knowledge and assessment skills to evaluate and prioritize patient placement.
• Ability to assess and handle highly sensitive and confidential matters with considerable discretion and independent judgement
• Demonstrated positive work ethic and strong sense of teamwork/problem solving with co-workers
• Understanding of Henry Ford Health policies and procedures preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and optimize patient flow across acute adult and pediatric facilities to promote quality and throughput.
• Serve as liaison with a multi-disciplinary team and internal/external resources to meet patient flow objectives.
• Own end-to-end patient flow processes and address clinical/operational issues related to placement and care progression.

Skills

Clinical experience

Capacity management

Nursing knowledge

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in nursing

Job description

Henry Ford Health in Southfield, MI, is seeking a Nurse Capacity Management professional to coordinate patient flow across facilities and optimize throughput. This role involves end-to-end patient placement and care progression in partnership with medical and nursing staff.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, manage clinical expediting and transfers, and prioritize tasks to ensure timely patient care.