RN House Supervisor - PRN

PRN RN House Supervisor positions available for day and night shifts, including weekdays and weekends. Prior psychiatric nursing experience required.

About the Hospital

Haven Behavioral Hospital of Philadelphia is a 42-bed acute-care, Joint Commission-accredited psychiatric hospital offering a full continuum of care for older adults dealing with mental health issues. We are dedicated to partnering with individuals, families, and communities to improve patients' lives through high-quality, specialty behavioral health services.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervision of all patient care areas in the hospital, ensuring a working knowledge of hospital and nursing policies and procedures.
• Serve as a managerial and clinical link between the Director of Nursing/Nurse Manager and department direction in their absence.
• Promote the mission, vision, and values of the organization.
• Assume primary leadership accountability and responsibility for milieu management and directing patient care activities of other nursing staff.
• Maintain standards of professional nursing practice in accordance with facility policy, external governing bodies, performance improvement standards, and psychiatric nursing standards.
• Assess patients utilizing the nursing process to formulate individualized plans of care, implement interventions, and evaluate outcomes.
• Interpret age/disability-specific information in response to the client population served.
• Provide for the safe delivery of medication in accordance with policies, procedures, physicians' orders, and current practice.
• Ensure thorough, accurate reporting, and documentation of patients' symptoms, responses, and progress.
• Assume responsibility for professional development, continuing education, and maintaining licensure.
• Assess patient care requirements by making rounds throughout all hospital areas.
• Ensure departmental staffing plans are implemented appropriately.
• Serve as a resource to staff for solving clinical problems and efficiently utilizing staffing/resources.
• Provide immediate follow-up, documentation, and communication of incidents to appropriate managers.
• Respond to emergency situations and assist as necessary.
• Act as a resource for identifying/solving administrative/operational problems.
• Contact representatives of other departments for assistance with problem-solving as needed.
• Interpret and ensure adherence to hospital and nursing philosophy, policies, and procedures.
• Report significant incidents (e.g., patient/family concerns, physician issues, safety matters) to the administrator-on-call or DON/Nurse Manager.
• Provide ongoing feedback (verbal and written) to staff on performance in collaboration with DON/Nurse Manager.
• Assist with nursing personnel performance evaluations by providing necessary information.
• Identify and communicate staff needs for continuing education to the DON/Nurse Manager.
• Provide education, remediation, and assessment of skills competencies as directed.
• Monitor documentation for adherence to rules and regulations.
• Ensure environment of care requirements are met (e.g., quality logs, infection control practices).
• Utilize the nursing process to assess, plan, and formulate interventions for individualized care and treatment modalities.
• Identify expected outcomes, including discharge planning, and evaluate intervention effectiveness.
• Conduct ongoing patient assessments from admission to discharge.
• Initiate medical/psychiatric crisis intervention to stabilize patient conditions.
• Provide individual patient teaching and facilitate family/significant other education.
• Demonstrate knowledge of psychiatric disorders and appropriate nursing interventions.
• Administer medications safely, provide education on prescribed medications, and recognize adverse drug reactions.
• Review, revise, and update medical records within facility guidelines and timeframes.
• Transcribe and implement physicians' orders according to facility policy.
• Document care, progress, and response to interventions accurately and concisely.
• Follow up on client care responsibilities and communicate incomplete assignments or current needs to staff.
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Current RN licensure.
• Prior psychiatric nursing experience required.
• Working knowledge of hospital and nursing policies and procedures.
• Ability to apply independent judgment in interpreting policies and procedures.
• Commitment to professional development, continuing education, and maintaining licensure.
• Adherence to Joint Commission, Federal, and State regulations, as well as organizational policies and performance improvement standards.