Registered Nurse (RN)-Patient Flow Coordinator, Bed Management, PRN, Nights

Prisma Health; Greenville (SC); On-site; USD 60,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

Prisma Health in Greenville, SC invites experienced registered nurses to join the Upstate Patient Flow Operations team for night shifts. You will apply standardized processes to admit, transfer, and discharge patients while maintaining safe, timely care transitions.

This role emphasizes bed management, collaboration with physicians and ED/ICU teams, and ongoing professional development to uphold practice standards and ensure optimal patient flow.

Qualifications

• Two (2) years acute care nursing experience.
• ICU or ED nursing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Apply standardized processes to admit patients to correct unit with orders.
• Prioritize patient needs and manage admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Monitor throughput turnaround to improve patient flow.
• Forecast bed availability using data and systems.
• Collaborate with physicians and care teams to improve care transitions.
• Maintain clinical knowledge and ongoing competency.

Skills

Acute care nursing

Bed management

Patient throughput

Team collaboration

Education

Associate degree in Nursing

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing preferred

Job description

Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.

Job Summary

Essential Functions

• All team members are expected to be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health’s purpose: Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.
• Applies standardized processes, nursing autonomy, remote triage and patient acuity to ensure patients are admitted to the appropriate unit/facility with correct orders.
• Utilizes critical thinking skills to prioritize patient needs, in conjunction with standardized processes for patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Monitors patient throughput turnaround times to facilitate timely movement and maximizes use of existing systems and processes to improve patient flow.
• Utilizes automated and manual information to forecast and facilitate bed availability.
• Supports initiatives to enhance patient throughput and promote safe, timely care transitions.
• Possesses excellent communication skills, ensuring oral communication is clear and concise.
• Acts as a resource for other staff members by maintaining a strong clinical knowledge and understanding of individual department capabilities.
• Delegates tasks as appropriate to other members of the team and ensures completion of assigned tasks.
• Collaborates with physicians, clinical providers, emergency departments, inpatient units, Administrators on Duty, environmental services, and other members of the interdisciplinary care team to improve care transitions.
• Evaluates own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standard guidelines, state statutes, policies, procedures, rules/regulations and current specific knowledge. Takes personal accountability for maintaining competency through education and professional activities. Maintains professional licensure and completes required mandatory education in a timely manner. Reflects on identified areas of strength that offer opportunity for improvement.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory/Management Responsibilities

• This is a non-management job that will report to a supervisor, manager, director or executive.

Minimum Requirements

• Education - Associate degree in Nursing. Bachelor’s degree in nursing preferred.
• Experience - Two (2) years Acute Care Nursing experience. ICU or ED nursing experience preferred.

In Lieu Of

• NA

Required Certifications, Registrations, Licenses

• Holds a current RN compact/multistate license recognized by the NCSBN Compact State or is licensed to practice as an RN in the state the team member is working

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• NA

Work Shift

Night (United States of America)

Location

Greenville Memorial Hospital

Facility

Corporate

Department

Upstate Patient Flow Operations

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