What are the responsibilities and job description for the House Supervisor RN position at Driscoll Health?
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General Purpose of Job:
Provides Nursing Leadership 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The House Supervisor is responsible and accountable for partnering with nursing leaders and to oversee clinical practice in their absence. The House Supervisor’s alignment in the organizational chart promotes neutrality. Interactions with families, nursing staff and nursing leaders will reinforce this position.
Essential Duties and Behavioral Expectations:
- Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
- Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
- Demonstrates business practices and personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.
- In the absence of Nursing Administration, will serve as frontline hospital wide nursing administrator on site
- Assists staff to problem solve to ensure patient care needs are met
- Assist staff with problem solving to enhance the provision of family centered care
- Notification of on call personnel as needed for evening, nights, and weekends
- Collaborates with Social Work/Pastoral Services to provide family support
- Reports any incident that seems unusual/deficient to Security and/or AOC
- In collaboration with Nurse Directors will oversee clinical practice
- Continuously reviews staffing needs to provide proper allocation of staffing resources while maintaining optimal utilization of staff to support patient care outcomes
- Provides clinical practice support for staff to ensure delivery of high quality patient/family care.
- Participates in the support and supervision of staff during evenings, nights and weekends
- Serves as a nursing practice resource with knowledge of nursing standards, policies, & procedures
- Collaborates with charge nurses and clinical coordinator as needed to make nursing decisions related to staff allocation
- Participates in Process Improvement/Development of Policies
- This section must be included on all director, manager, and supervisor job descriptions.
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Delete supervisory category if not applicable. Standard functions listed below should be included on all supervisory job descriptions. Add department specific essential supervisory functions.
- Supports clinical practice implementation and assists with evaluation of same to ensure practice changes occur
- Identifies and participates in sharing best practices throughout department
- Fosters a blame free practice climate to identify and respond to actual/potential safety issues
- Actively participates in the leadership of the Nursing Administration to meet the goals of the department.
- Serves on hospital committees
- Collaborate with supervisors/staff of all departments to encourage rapid response and problem solving as needed
- Reviews policy and procedures update from DCH and Directors
- Reviews and contributes to the attainment of departmental and DCH goals annually.
- Participates and contributes to team projects
- Follows DCH and departmental COST control activities: Monitors usage of supplies and equipment to eliminate or minimize waste and/or misuse.
- Correct and/or report unsafe, unsecured or unclean environment to director/supervisor of Environmental, Health, Facilities and/or Safety departments
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Is knowledgeable of all regulatory issues and monitors compliance
- Collaborates with Patient Access, Physicians, Admitting and Charge/Clinical Coordinators of all areas to ensure efficient, effective placement of patients
- Coordinates with other agencies, hospitals and clinics on the upcoming acceptance or outgoing transfer of patients
- Provides administrative problem solving during evenings, nights, and weekends to facilitate the smooth operation of the facility and optimal patient safety.
- Notifies the Administrator on Call for resource problem solving and communication of events during these hours.
- Serves in a leadership role in any emergency preparedness response
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Represents nursing leadership in dealing with Staff or Guest relations
- Responds promptly and positively to patients, families, associates, and all others in a respectful, courteous, and confidential manner.
- Greets patients, families, co-workers and others in a calm, professional, friendly manner, makes eye contact, initiates conversation, and identifies self by name
- Provides or facilitates a clean, safe, quiet and secure environment for patients, families, and follow employees
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Presents a positive professional roll model
- Maintains identifiable/professional attire at all times, including Name Badges
- Answers telephone calls promptly
- Keeps self and work area neat, and organized.
- Participates collaboratively in staff meetings, committees, projects, and teams to resolve conflicts and met Institutional goals, and strategic plan.
- Attends staff meetings as requested
- Identifies own learning needs and obtains necessary education to meet requirements of position.
- Attends and completes mandatory education programs
- Submits documentation of and reports all work related education and training
- Reviews learning needs with director to set individual education and learning goals on an annual basis.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITES:
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Supervises the following job classes:
- RN
- LVN
- NA/PCT/Equipment Tech
- SNT
- Unit Clerks
- EMT/Paramedic
Education and/or Experience:
- Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing
- Bachelor’s degree from four-year College or university preferred
- Three years of nursing experience in which leadership ability has been demonstrated.
- Two years pediatric nursing experience preferred
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations.
- Current licensure in the State of Texas.
- Certification in Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Certification in Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS)
- Advanced practice national examination required: CPN, RNC
- Completion of DCH orientation course
Salary : $61,200 - $77,500
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