House Supervisor

Responsibilities/Job Description: What You Can Expect: Our Employees love Grand Itasca for the stability, meaningful work and great team. If you are looking for professional growth and development with hands on experience caring for a diverse patient population, Grand Itasca is where you belong! We're glad you are thinking about joining us: Grand Itasca is a great place for Registered Nurses. We're a non\-profit organization with a clear vision of being the leader in transforming rural health care by achieving the highest levels of quality, access, and value. Our strength stems from teamwork and collaboration among a talented and diverse group of professionals. With over 700 employees in hundreds of different roles, Grand Itasca can offer a variety of career opportunities. Let's talk about benefits: Competitive pay Tuition reimbursement and scholarship/grant opportunities Health, dental, vision, \& life insurance kick in on the first of the month after 30 days of employment Generous paid time off package to maintain a healthy home\-work balance STDB (short term disability bank) 401K with employer contributions Shift Differential 12\-hour day/night rotations Employee Referral Program About the Position: House Supervisor Part\-time .6\-.75 FTE (48\-60 hours per pay period) 12\-hour shifts, Days, Nights Medical/Surgical/Pediatrics, ICU, Women's Health, and ER Job Summary: The Administrative Nursing Supervisor role represents administration and management on a 24/7 basis in the provision of leadership to expedite and ensure efficient hospital operations. It guides in the appropriate placement and safe provision of patient care services which: address and meet clinical patient needs, employs wise and appropriate stewardship of resources, and assures and enhances a positive patient experience. Here's what you'll do when you join us: Serve as the Representative of Administration: Investigates patient, family, physician, and staff concerns. Refers situations to Patient Representative, Risk Management, as appropriate. Evaluates any unusual and/or inappropriate incidents on hospital premises related to unsafe occurrences or practices involving patients, employees, providers, students, or visitors; takes prompt, appropriate action to provide a safe environment and safe patient care. Informs Administrator/Director/Department Manager of resolved and/or pending problems and actions taken. Oversees \& directs other hospital departments in the absence of their manager to assure the delivery of patient care. Responds to law enforcement inquiries and refers to appropriate resources such as Patient Relations, Risk Management and Security. Maintains patient rights in accordance with the Minnesota Patient Bill of Rights. Attends and is actively involved in Nursing Leadership meeting and initiatives as notified. Conducts themselves in a professional manner and models “leadership” as an Administrative representative. Responsible for human resources and financial management during assigned shifts to maintain quality service, posiive employee relations, and fiscal expectations: Facilitates inter/intra\-departmental problem solving between individual employees. Promotes first party communication. Implements and communicates human resource policies and procedures in a fair and consistent manner. Monitors performance of nursing personnel from outside agencies during their assignment and relays information to appropriate staff. Assists with effective fiscal management of resources within budgetary guidelines. Responds and participates in resolving system, staff, and physician issues, taking immediate action when appropriate and/or triaging to operational managers. Consistently provides information to Department Manager or Director about unit or system issues. Monitors and provides input regarding employee issues and performance appraisals consistent with hospital policies and performs progressive disciplinary action when necessary. Utilizes clear decision\-making process in problem identification and problem resolution in both routine and emergency situations. Supports staff in utilizing their own abilities to problem solve. Allocates Daily Staffing Resources: Coordinates with Staffing Office and Nursing Dept. to achieve quality service and positive patient flow for assigned shift. Evaluates patient care requirements in relationship to the human resource and financial requirements Weighs requests for staff against available resources, budgeted patient care hours, and individualized patient care needs. Utilizes suggested staffing and hospital guidelines, policy, procedure and personnel assessment to allocate staff appropriately. Patient and Employee Safety: Demonstrates understanding of role in developing and maintaining an environment that is safe for patients, visitors, and employees: Identifies issues which impact patient care throughout the hospital. Responds to emergency calls and acts as resource to team members when requested by staff. Participates in Emergency Alert Response plan; assumes position of Incident Commander and implements the Hospital Incident Command system (HICS) in the absence of an Administrator. Communicates as appropriate with external agencies. Reports through variance reporting any event with potential negative effect on patient, family, or staff. Meets requirement for annual infection control and safety/security education. Protects patients, self, and others from injury and accidents by maintaining a safe environment and using equipment properly. Follows safety/security procedures for emergency and non\-emergency situations to protect patient, self, and environment. Protects patient, self, and others from injury during transfers, lifts, and transports by using proper equipment and body mechanics. Reports environmental risks or equipment malfunctions to appropriate department or intervenes to ensure safety of patients and employees. Ensures compliance with internal and external regulations, policies and procedures for Joint Commission, Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), etc. Serves as a resource, coach, and mentor to employees: Refers staff to Infection Control, Social Services, Organ Procurement, Chaplain resources, and on\-call community resources as needed to maintain patient care. Provides information regarding policies and procedures and refers to the Fairview intranet as resource. Maintains knowledge, understanding and competency of system and entity initiatives and changes, and communicates them positively to staff. Assists staff with problem solving situational issues. Directs staff to potential resources/equipment sources within hospital or community. Serves as contact for vulnerable adult or child abuse reporting. Serves as a resource and mentor for charge nurses. Serves as a positive role model for staff in resolving problems or conflict. Serves as a mentor for safe patient care. Supervises patient flow issues throughout the organization: Facilitates capacity related meetings to gather and share information and plan daily patient flow. Collaborates with all units to evaluate and develop unit admission/transfer/discharges. Allocates appropriate resources to facilitate admits/discharges/transfers. Completes required admission and discharge portions of the electronic chart to facilitate patient flow. Rounds through each unit hourly, or a minimum of every 2 hours, to collect information for patient flow and other concerns. Remains visible on patient care units at least 50% of the time. Collaborates with Patient Placement to facilitate all admissions. Partners with Patient Placement to trouble shoot issues and collaborate in decision\-making regarding patient flow. Updates Patient Placement at least every two hours with bed status. Troubleshoots planned discharges to facilitate early discharges. Responds to capacity alerts in the ED, Mom/Baby and house\-wide to help ensure patient flow and allocation of resources. Uses knowledge and resources to make decisions regarding transferring patients to outside facilities. Makes patient placement decisions within placement guidelines and policies. Consults with the Department Lead to initiate unit closure. Ensures that established standards of professional nursing practice and patient care excellence are being met: Coordinates and communicates with multi\-disciplinary members of the health care team, including both clinical and non\-clinical support roles. Interprets, guides, and enforces system wide, entity and department\-specific policies, procedures and practices in the safe and appropriate placement and delivery of patient care. Rounds on and maintains contact with all units on assigned shift. Assesses competency of nursing staff to ensure patient care standards are met in the absence of the Nurse Manager. Demonstrates high level of knowledge of Standards of Care and Assessment and Plan of Care polices and can communicate them effectively. Organization expectations, as applicable: Demonstrates ability to provide care or service adjusting approaches to reflect developmental level and cultural differences of population served. + Partners with patient care giver in care/decision making. + Communicates in a respectful manner. + Ensures a safe, secure environment. + Individualizes plan of care to meet patient needs. + Modifies clinical interventions based on population served. + Provides patient education based on as assessment of learning needs of patient/care giver. + Handles patient complaints promptly and appropriately in an effort to achieve resolution. Fulfills all organizational requirements. + Completes all required learning relevant to the role. + Complies with all relevant laws, regulation, and policies. + Performs other duties as assigned. If you have these qualifications, we'd love to chat: Current RN licensure in State of Minnesota, BSN preferred. One (1\) year leadership experience with demonstrated effectiveness in management, leadership and quality/safety improvement preferred. + Equivalent of two (2\) years Critical Care RN experience, or three (3\) years Medical Surgical RN experience within the past five years preferred. + Incident Command Systems (ICS) courses: IS\-100HCb, IS\-200HCa and IS\-700a certifications preferred or achieve within 6 months. Basic Life Support (BLS) certifications required and maintain certification. Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS) and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification or attain certification within six months of employment and maintains certification. Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) or Comprehensive Advance Life Support (CALS) certification preferred. Required to follow, adhere, and uphold the Grand Itasca Clinic \& Hospital’s Mission, Vision and Value statement. Perform other related duties as required. This list is not all\-inclusive and any other task or job may be assigned in the future. About Grand Itasca: Grand Itasca brings the benefits of a large and respected health system to our local community. We are a non\-profit, state\-of\-the\-art, integrated clinic and hospital that is proud to offer a range of high\-quality providers, specialties and services to our community. Enjoy our patient\-centered, comprehensive approach, close to home without venturing from the beauty of northern Minnesota. Qualifications: $49\.12\- $69\.35 Hourly