RN, Registered Nurse House Supervisor - Nursing Administration - PRN (75560)
CHRISTUS Health
Douglassville, TX, 75560, USA
Douglassville, TX, 75560, USA
- Healthcare
- Registered Nurse
- House Supervisor
- Nurse Manager
Senior registered nurse who manages and coordinates evening and night nursing staff to ensure continuous patient care, overseeing patient flow, transfers, emergencies, and on-call processes. Provides leadership, mentoring, performance management, clinical decision support, risk management, and ensures adherence to clinical policies and patient rights. Requires BSN (MS preferred), RN license, BLS/ACLS, 3+ years clinical experience and supervisory/management experience; PRN/per-diem schedule.
Description
Summary:
Manages and coordinates activities of nursing personnel on evening and night shift to maintain continuity for around the clock patient care.
Responsibilities:
Education/Skills
PRN
Work Type:
Per Diem As Needed
Summary:
Manages and coordinates activities of nursing personnel on evening and night shift to maintain continuity for around the clock patient care.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinating and monitoring the flow of patients between units; overseeing interfacility transfers, emergencies, and on call systems.
- Providing leadership, coaching, and mentoring to staff; providing supervision for assigned staff, including performance evaluations and problem solving
- Maintaining ongoing communications with patients, families and physicians concerning patient care and ensuring compliance with patient rights policies.
- Overseeing the performance and development of the nursing team and key staff.
- Nursing Assessment and Care- Level 2 - Working experience
- Shares experiences with developing and implementing nursing care plans within a nursing specialty.
- Describes the tools and procedures used for initial assessment and progress assessment.
- Builds rapport with the patient and explains the condition and course of action effectively.
- Discusses common care approaches and typical responses and adjustments to the care plan.
- Monitors pain levels; communicates with patients and family on pain management alternatives.
- Clinical Risk Management- Level 2 - Working experience
- Shares experiences with cases where a patient is judged to be more vulnerable because of risk factors.
- Reviews specific preventive measures in own area.
- Identifies key steps of a unit-specific clinical risk management process and associated procedures.
- Makes use of organizational resources for risk avoidance and management.
- Reviews and interprets risk assessments and clinical incident reports.
- Nursing Code of Ethics- Level 2 - Working experience
- Describes experiences with situations involving ethical issues and associated resolutions.
- Discusses the obligations, duties and responsibility of nurses to patients and society at large.
- Identifies and communicates when medical or nursing ethics violations or unsafe conditions are observed.
- Cites examples of unusual ethical concerns for patients, families and healthcare providers.
- Reviews previous solutions and outcomes for ethical conflicts in own area or specialty. Health Teaching and Health Promotion- Level 2 - Working experience
- Describes experiences working with patients on specific conditions, diseases and associated treatments.
- Provides first-level response to patient and care giver questions and concerns.
- Demonstrates self-care skills for patients and care givers to use once the patient is discharged.
- Validates that patients and care givers understand treatments and medications.
- Supplies the patient with tools and resources to improve health or prevent deterioration and disease.
- Clinical Decision Making and Judgment- Level 2 - Working experience
- Shares experiences with own nursing judgement and lessons learned.
- Identifies, obtains, and organizes clinical and patient information needed for assessment.
- Reviews major tools, techniques and evidence used to identify alternatives.
- Describes when and how to utilize the Emergency Severity Index to determine the urgency of care.
- Discusses common patient's preferences and their impact on decision making.
- Nursing Resource Management- Level 2 - Working experience
- Describes experiences with managing resources for own team and self.
- Reviews common resource constraints and how they are dealt with.
- Delegates, monitors and follows up on simple tasks.
- Demonstrates the ability to apportion resources to different components of a task.
- Seeks help if necessary; initiates requests or mobilizes the necessary resources.
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail- Level 2 - Working experience
- Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
- Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
- Develops and uses checklists to insure that information goes out error-free.
- Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
- Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
- Planning and Organizing- Level 2 - Working experience
- Creates action plans that ensure the accomplishment of responsibilities.
- Breaks tasks into manageable steps that can be incorporated into a personal work plan.
- Raises awareness of potential bottlenecks and disruptions to the schedule.
- Monitors progress continuously and adjusts tactics for handling situations on a case by case basis.
- Escalates concerns over competing or conflicting priorities.
- Clinical Policies and Standards- Level 2 - Working experience
- Follows a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures.
- Analyzes policy and standards documentation and ensures organizational compliance.
- Provides feedback for improvement of procedures.
- Assists in the development and implementation of specific procedures.
- Works with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools and techniques.
Education/Skills
- Graduate of an accredited Registered Nursing program, Bachelor Degree required
- Master's Degree preferred
- Excellent customer service, negotiation and communication skills
- Minimum of 3 years clinical patient care experience in a relevant setting
- Minimum of 1 years of healthcare management experience, preferred
- RN Licensure in state(s) of employment
- Registered Nurse (RN) required
- BLS and ACLS
- ENPC or PALS preferred
PRN
Work Type:
Per Diem As Needed
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