**Job Summary and Responsibilities** As our Patient Logistics Nurse, you will orchestrate seamless patient movement, optimizing bed utilization, coordinating transfers, and ensuring efficient patient flow. Your role is pivotal in minimizing delays and enhancing operational efficiency. Every day you will manage and prioritize patient admissions, discharges, and transfers based on medical necessity and bed availability. You will proactively communicate with clinical teams, discharge planners, and external facilities to resolve logistical challenges and ensure a smooth continuum of care. To be successful in this role, you need strong clinical judgment, exceptional organizational skills, and the ability to make rapid, informed decisions in a dynamic environment. + Receives bed placement requests, evaluates all available hospital beds and initiates, promotes and/or participates in interdisciplinary collaboration regarding patient placement; keeps abreast of bed demand/availability/status information in order to ensure patients are placed in the appropriate bed at the right time. + Develops contingency patient placement plans with operational charge staff to ensure daily patient operations are not interrupted; continually re-evaluates requests as necessary to assure timely and appropriate bed assignments and optimal turnaround. + Monitors staffing and patient information to maintain real-time awareness patient demands, including patient location, acuity, risk factors, and turnaround times. + Maintains communication with appropriate stakeholders regarding bed availability or access delays; facilitates ongoing communication across work units regarding patient flow/bed placement status/issues. + Identifies anticipated patient admissions/transfers/discharges and ascertains potential bed availability on an organizational basis; maintains ongoing communication with the Emergency Departments, other requesting units and Transfer Center to identify shifting priorities/needs for beds. + Gathers clinical information to clarify clinical acuity and other relevant information bearing on bed and/or hospital placement that is consistent with criteria for the patient’s needs. **Nights: 7pm-7am** **Job Requirements** **Required** + Minimum of Associates of Nursing + 3 years clinical experience **Preferred** + Bachelors Of Nursing **Where You'll Work** CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S., from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services, CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources, CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen, both inside our hospitals and out in the community. **Pay Range** $35.18 - $51.01 /hour We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.