House Supervisor - Emergency Department, Per Diem

About the role

The House Supervisor provides direct nursing and administrative support for all clinical units to ensure continuity of patient care. In partnership with clinical leadership, providers and unit staff, the House Supervisor assures that the standards of nursing practice and the standards of performance are achieved.

Responsibilities

• Promotes and maintains the mission, vision, values, philosophy and strategic goals of the organization
• Collaborates with providers, nurses and other members of the health care team to ensure effective delivery of patient care services with a focus on critical clinical events
• Continuously evaluates the needs of clinical care areas and assists nursing staff to meet patient care needs during acute volume fluctuations
• Evaluates staffing levels, patient volumes and coordinates allocation of staffing resources
• Functions as the primary point of contact in determining bed availability and appropriate placement of patients
• Facilitates patient flow, including direct patient care as needed
• Evaluating and coordinating of bed/nursing assignments
• Transporting patients that require ongoing cardiac monitoring and/or nursing assessment
• Initiating admission assessment, problem identification, care planning and documentation
• Completing time sensitive patient care orders
• Communicating all pertinent information to the assigned nurse
• Escalating communication, as necessary to the department leader and/or Administrator on Call (AOC)
• Acts as a resource for staff and other professionals for a variety of situations that have administrative and clinical components, i.e., medical examiner cases, disaster plan implementation, and inter-facility transfers
• Aid staff with service recovery as needed
• Acts as a member of code, assistance and rapid response teams
• Participates in incident command (IC) and may be first IC in an emergency management event
• Participate in quality improvement activities
• Functions within the boundaries of and ensure compliance with organizational policy as well as standards and the scope of Nursing Practice as defined by the New Hampshire Nurse Practice Act
• Serves as a member of the nursing leadership team
• Demonstrates professional communication with department leaders as well as the AOC, as necessary
• Participates in department staff meetings as well as organization-wide leadership meetings

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred or matriculated in BSN program within the first one to two years of employment
• 2 years previous charge nurse/management or nursing supervision experience
• Certified in ACLS, PALS, NRP and ENPC within the first year of employment