Ochsner Health
Transfer Center/Bed Planner (RN)
Shreveport, Louisiana•Full-time
About the Job
Experienced RN? Take Your Nursing Career to the Next Level with Ochsner Health!
We're looking for an experienced RN to help lead patient flow and bed management operations. In this role, you'll collaborate with nursing leadership and clinical teams to coordinate admissions, transfers, patient placement, and hospital capacity.
What We're Looking For:
- Active RN license.
- Associate's degree in Nursing, Science, or related field.
- 3+ years of clinical experience.
- Strong leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.
- Supervisory or transfer center experience is a plus!
Job Duties:
- Provides clinical oversight and critical thinking through the daily patient flow and bed placement decisions.
- Supports the hospital’s administration, management, and nursing staff in achieving organizational goals set to provide patient-centered care while maintaining the organization’s strategic plan.
- Facilitates professional relationships between leadership, medical staff, and interdisciplinary teams to provide patient room assignments based on patient diagnosis, acuity, and patient flow.
- Evaluates and facilitates staffing needs in collaboration with the nursing units, utilizing resources for capacity surge and patient flow escalation plans.
- Completes accurate data collection, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Completes rounds and supervises day-to-day operations of the nursing units.
- Participates in semiannual telemedicine, business development, and hospital outreach activities.
- Adapts behavior to the specific patient population, including but not limited to respect for privacy, method of introduction to the patient, adapting explanation of services or procedures to be performed, requesting permissions and communication style.
- Performs other related duties as required.
Why This Role?
Make an impact beyond the bedside by helping ensure patients receive the right care at the right time.
Interested? Apply today to explore this opportunity with Ochsner Health!