Registered Nurse Discharge Suite

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support with free counseling

Paid time off and family leave

401(k) with match and retirement tools

Tuition and certification support

Fertility and family-building benefits

Job summary

HCA Healthcare’s St. David's South Austin Medical Center is seeking a Registered Nurse in Admission and Discharge to support safe patient transitions and advocate for patients and families. You will help coordinate admissions, discharges, and post-hospital care within an acute care setting.

The role emphasizes patient education, documentation, collaboration with the care team, and ensuring seamless transitions while delivering high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• RN license required or encouraged
• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of start date
• Associate Degree or Bachelors Degree in Nursing

Responsibilities

• Obtains nursing assessment history and ensures appropriate inpatient admission
• Completes admission, risk, medication reconciliation, discharge paperwork, and post-hospital documentation
• Educates patients, families and caregivers about medical conditions, treatments, medications and follow-up
• Completes discharge documentation and referrals for ongoing care
• Ensures discharge paperwork and resources are provided to patients and families
• Coordinates with nursing administration to prioritize workload and ensure smooth transitions
• Demonstrates time-conscious prioritization of tasks

Skills

RN License

BLS within 30 days

Education

Associate Degree or Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Job description

As a Registered Nurse Discharge Suite, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

Job Summary and Qualifications

As a Registered Nurse for Admission and Discharge, the top priority is delivering exceptional patient-centered care. They are dedicated to ensuring a seamless and efficient transition for patients coming in and out of acute care hospital settings. Specialized assessment skills help ensure that patients are placed in the appropriate care areas and discharged. We offer education and post-hospitalization care as necessary. Their main focus is advocating for patients, families, and caregivers while embodying the organization's vision, mission, and values. The goal is to give an unmatched patient experience and attain optimal clinical outcomes.

What will you do in this role:

• Obtains a nursing assessment history, and ensures proper inpatient care unit admission. Takes appropriate action when needed, such as communicating special circumstances to physicians and/or care team or reporting indications of abuse or neglect.

• Completes and facilitates the completion of required documentation, such as admission assessments, risk assessments, medication reconciliation, discharge paperwork, and post-hospital documentation.

• Teaches patients/families/caregivers about a patient’s medical condition, patient status, treatment plan, medications and possible side effects, and follow-up measures. Translates complex medical terminology to ensure complete knowledge.

• Completes extra discharge documentation, education, and discharge care for special patient populations, to ensure compliance with core measures for discharge.

• Ensures patients /families/caregivers receive copies of discharge paperwork and any other documentation needed, such as referrals for ongoing care, educational materials, etc.

• Coordinates with House Supervisors/Nursing Administration to prioritize workload and identify greatest need areas to ensure smooth patient transitions.

• Demonstrates a time-conscious awareness and ability to prioritize. Distinguishes between low and high-priority activities.

What qualifications you will need:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date

• (RN) Registered Nurse

• Associate Degree, or Bachelors Degree

No Travel Required

No experience Required Years of Experience

Benefits

St. David's South Austin Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services

• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services

• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence

• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling

• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note:

Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

St. David's South Austin Medical Center (http://www.stdavids.com/locations/st-davids-south-austin-medical-center) , is a 368‑bed acute care hospital within St. David’s HealthCare, offering comprehensive specialty and sub‑specialty services. Key programs include a nationally accredited oncology program featuring the region’s only adult Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program; a Level II trauma center; advanced cardiac, stroke and orthopedic services; full‑service maternity and newborn care; and four community emergency centers in Bee Cave and Bastrop.

The facility is affiliated with the Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery , providing advanced robotic capabilities for orthopedics, open heart and lung procedures, complex GI surgery, surgical oncology, general and colorectal surgery, and urology. It was also among the first hospitals in Central Texas to integrate CT imaging with robotics for early lung cancer detection.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.