Job Summary: The Registered Nurse House Supervisor provides leadership and performs management functions for patient care activities on assigned shift. This job performs high level administrative functions to enable compliance with JPS Health Network policies and procedures and Joint Commission accreditation standards.
Essential Job Functions & Accountabilities:
- Delivers nursing care, as needed, to assigned group of patients to include education directed towards identified knowledge deficits, treatment planning, pain management and discharge planning utilizing the nursing process.
- Delivers quality nursing care while minimizing the risk of infection, contamination, harm, or injury. Maintains safe and clean working environment ensuring compliance with procedure rules and regulations.
- Provides and coordinates patient care, educates patients and public about various health conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients and family members.
- Resolves patient problems and needs by using multi-disciplinary team strategies.
- Anticipates deteriorating life sign patterns or equipment malfunctions and takes appropriate action.
- Serves as a leader by precepting and mentoring RN I, and students.
- Modifies patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses. Monitors, records and reports symptoms and changes in patients' conditions.
- Responsible for the coordination and placement of patients to include the daily bed meeting and the intra- facility transfers to ensure a well-coordinated process and collaboration with service areas involved in the admission and transfer process to ensure and facilitate patient flow.
- Maintains proficiency in bed control/bed management processes; reviews patients needing bed assignments for appropriateness and collaborates with the medical staff to ensure proper placement.
- Coordinates patient transfers to and from outside facilities and maintain accurate data entry of all transfers into the transfer log on assigned shift and reports transfers not in compliance with current policies/procedures or EMTALA statutes.
- Responds to codes throughout the hospital including collection of evaluations.
- Rounds on patient floors and emergency room daily.
- Supports staff through mentoring and acting as a resource and provide educational support as needed.
- Job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice. Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned.
- Must be able to complete all job duties and functions of the role with or without assistive/adaptive devices, and/or reasonable accommodations.
- Work environments may differ based on job functions and location. Work is subject to schedule changes and/or variable work hours.
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