Bed Control Specialist RN

The Registered Nurse Bed Center plays a critical role in coordinating patient flow by ensuring timely safe and appropriate bed placement across hospital units. This position manages hospital admission requests from multiple entry pointsincluding the Emergency Department direct admissions and procedural areasand collaborates closely with physicians patient care units and hospital addition to managing bed assignments the RN provides backup support to the Nursing Supervisor contributes to process improvement initiatives and serves as a clinical resource to frontline staff. The RN demonstrates strong clinical judgment communication skills and a commitment to patient-centered care and operational efficiency.

Required Qualifications:

• Nursing Diploma and/or Associate Degree in Nursing
• Registered nurse license in the Commonwealth of Virginia or from a state that is part of a Compact agreement with Virginia
• Registered Nurse with at least three years of acute care experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• BSN or MSN
• Professional Nursing Certification
• Previous bed center experience

Skills:

• Broad knowledge of bed placement decision making.
• Knowledge of regulatory legislative and DNV standards.
• Demonstrates job related computer competence as seen in patient documentation information retrieval electronic health systems (EHSs) and Microsoft Office products.
• Effective verbal and written skills with the ability to collaborate with multiple disciplines throughout the organization.
• Good problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Some benefits of working at Augusta Health include:

• Generous paid time off to promote work life balance
• Free onsite parking
• Shift and weekend differentials
• Tuition reimbursement
• Onsite child care

Company Information
Augusta Health is a mission-driven independent nonprofit community health system located in Fishersville Virginia in Virginias scenic Shenandoah Valley. Augusta Health offers a full continuum of inpatient and outpatient which includes Augusta Medical Center a 255 bed inpatient facility and Augusta Medical Group which is comprised of 40 practice locations and four urgent care locations.

Equal Opportunity

Augusta Health recruits hires and promotes qualified candidates for employment without regard to age color disability gender identity or expression marital status national or ethnic origin political affiliation race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation veteran or military discharge status and family medical or genetic information.

Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority