Administrative Nursing Supervisor
Location: 1010 Spruce Street, Española, NM 87532-2724
About the role
The Administrative Nursing Supervisor (House Supervisor) provides clinical, operational, and administrative leadership during assigned shifts across Presbyterian Española Hospital. Serving as the senior nursing leader after hours, weekends, and holidays, the House Supervisor coordinates patient care services, optimizes patient flow, supports staff, and ensures safe, efficient hospital operations. This role serves as a resource to nursing and interdisciplinary teams, facilitates timely decision-making, manages staffing and patient placement, and promotes exceptional patient care while ensuring compliance with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and quality standards.
Responsibilities
- Clinical Leadership
- Provide leadership, consultation, and support to nursing and ancillary staff throughout the hospital.
- Serve as the administrative representative during assigned shifts.
- Respond to and assist with complex patient care situations, emergencies, and critical incidents.
- Promote patient-centered care and support evidence-based clinical practice.
- Serve as a resource for patient care concerns, ethical issues, and clinical decision making.
- Operations Management
- Coordinate hospital-wide patient throughput, admissions, transfers, and discharges.
- Monitor bed availability and collaborate with departments to optimize patient flow.
- Facilitate patient placement based on acuity, staffing, and resource availability.
- Coordinate staffing assignments and adjust resources to meet patient care needs.
- Manage staffing call-offs and coordinate supplemental staffing when needed.
- Support emergency preparedness and incident command responsibilities during critical events.
- Quality & Patient Safety
- Ensure compliance with patient safety standards, hospital policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Investigate and document patient, visitor, and employee incidents as needed.
- Participate in risk management activities and support corrective action plans.
- Promote infection prevention, quality improvement, and patient experience initiatives.
- Assist with regulatory readiness and accreditation standards.
Requirements
- Associate of Nursing degree from an accredited school.
- NM licensed RN required or out-of-state compact RN license.
- 5 years of relevant experience (acute care-tele or above) and/or leadership nursing experience.
- BLS required.
Benefits
- Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities.
- Staff Safety: a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern.
- Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications, and various lead roles (for eligible positions).
- Malpractice liability insurance.
- Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department.
- EPIC electronic charting system.
- Access to a fun, engaging, and unique wellness program, including free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges, and more.
About Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are a locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan, and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees—including more than 1,600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses. Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care), and Commercial health plans.
Type of Opportunity: PRN