RN House Supervisor - PRN

About the role

The RN Clinical House Supervisor provides patient-centered, specialized, and evidence-based nursing care across the continuum through an inter-professional approach to treatment, research, education, and advocacy. Serves as the onsite hospital administrative authority in the absence of hospital or nursing administration, working as necessary with the director of nursing, unit directors, managers, and the hospital administrator on-call regarding complex administrative decisions in support of daily operations to ensure regulatory compliance. Is responsible for patient outcomes that meet high quality of care standards. Job Description: **This is a shared position between the Appleton & Neenah hospital** SCHEDULE: Flexible with shifts - picks from open availability between night shift and weekends KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES: 1. Provides oversight of acute patient care resource allocation, unit operations, and patient flow in a manner to promote patient safety and satisfaction. 2. Serves as a role model of organizational service standards, mission, vision, and values. Assists team members in understanding how their day-to-day jobs contribute to ThedaCare strategy. 3. Serves as the representative leader to varied services (i.e., employee health, human resources, infection prevention, health information, and risk management) to ensure service availability. 4. Participates as an active member in committee work, leadership meetings, and projects to contribute to strategic planning. 5. Communicates practice alerts, policy changes, and educational opportunities to team members during rounds and at bed huddles. 6. Responds to emergency situations including medical and facility codes. Facilitates the movement of patients to a higher level of care as necessary. 7. Provides consultation and maintains positive relationships with physicians and other inter-professional team members, collaborates to problem solve, and escalates appropriately to ensure safe patient care. 8. Ensures patients are placed expeditiously to the right level of care as bed requests are received. Monitors patient flow through collection of data and report sharing for assessing opportunities to improve quality. 9. Works with direct access to ensure the smooth inter-facility transfer of patients to and from our facilities. 10. Provides accurate reports and hand-offs to oncoming shifts, director of nursing, and hospital administrator on-call to ensure continuity of operations through the next shift. 11. Is responsible for the coordination of activities and ensures continual compliance with regulatory standards (i.e., The Joint Commission, CMS, and AHCA). 12. Demonstrates, anticipates, and proactively manages risks to prevent crises.