House Supervisor

PRN Registered Nurse ER House Supervisor

Townsen Memorial Hospital Humble is looking for a PRN Registered Nurse ER House Supervisor to join our team! The Registered Nurse Emergency Room House Supervisor is responsible for receiving patients to the clinical area and providing nursing care to the emergency room patient, as well as, providing oversight of the facility as the house supervisor to lead the staff in the absence of the upper management staff. Additionally, providing direct patient care and developing nursing care plans specifically designed for individual patients.

Essential functions include ensuring the emergency room and patient care areas always have a clean and therapeutic environment for all patients, giving instructions to patients as instructed by physician or physician assistant, ensuring supplies and equipment needed are available and in good working order, admitting the patient to the unit and preparing him/her for the admitting or emergent procedures, making initial assessment and determining the nursing needs of the patient, communicating additional discharge needs when applicable in conjunction with the emergency room physician, explaining nursing procedures and actions taken to help reduce anxiety, identifying patients physical and mental status, monitoring the patients medical condition and reporting any significant changes to the admitting physician or emergency room physician, assuring any procedure or surgical consent, pre-operative test results and History and Physical are in the medical record prior to any proposed procedure as applicable, assisting with transferring of patients out of the facility; knowledgeable of EMTALA rules and requirements, reporting any important health history facts to the emergency physician/medical director, educating patients and family, providing patients and family members emotional support as necessary, documenting patient care delivered accurately in the medical record, implementing doctors orders in a timely and accurate manner, developing and maintaining an effective working relationship with patients, families, visitors, physicians, and staff, documenting concisely, precisely, and accurately on all records or documents as indicated by policy, utilizing and maintaining clinical competencies (general, age specific and drug administration), demonstrating clinical problem solving, critical thinking and making decisions using evidence based analytical approach, planning for routine events and anticipating/preventing and managing/evaluating emergent situations, completing patient care responsibilities in a timely manner with accurate documentation, using downtime efficiently, aware of team members workload, responding positively to requests for assistance from other team members throughout the facility, acting as resource; giving advice and instructions to employees; coaching staff on assigned tasks; facilitating problem/issue resolution, acting as expert/super user for equipment, technical problems, and for advanced or difficult procedures, overseeing day-to-day operation and collaborating with management to optimize team performance, adapting to unexpected changes, effectively acclimating to various work schedules to achieve high quality of care, protecting patient and family privacy rights and maintaining confidentiality of patient records in accordance with policy and procedure and HIPAA requirements, following all safety rules, reporting all accidents promptly and correcting minor safety hazards, communicating with peers and management regarding any hazards identified in the workplace, maintaining established Facility/Departmental policies and procedures, adhering to the company standards of business conduct, and performing other related duties as assigned to support the hospital.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include strong computer skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Excel, Word & Vision (EMR), strong attention to detail, ability to maintain composure, ability to adequately plan and implement nursing interventions and evaluate patient condition, excellent, professionally polished patient interaction and skills to practice collaborative nursing, ability to respond quickly, physically and mentally when priorities and/or the patients condition changes, high stress tolerance, ability to adapt with flexibility, ability to work independently, ability to maintain records, ability to clean, maintain, and make minor adjustments to equipment.

Education and experience include Associates Degree, five (5) years of experience in a supervisor capacity acute care environment, Registered Nurse in the State of Texas, Basic Life Support (BLS) certified, Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certified or must be obtained within sixty (60) days of hire, Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certified or must be obtained within sixty (60) days of hire.