Patient Flow RN

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.

Position Summary

Oversees the patient care units, evaluation of continuous quality improvement, and compliance with hospital policies and procedures and governmental regulations.

Position Responsibilities: 

• 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

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Licensure: 

• Associate’s Degree 

• TX RN License 

Minimum Experience: 

• Three (3) Years of experience