Travel Nurse RN - House Supervisor - $2,929 per week

HealthTrust Workforce Solutions is seeking a travel nurse RN House Supervisor for a travel nursing job in San Diego, California.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: House Supervisor
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, nights
• Employment Type: Travel

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Promotes and restores patients health by developing day-to-day management and long-term planning of the patient care area; directing and developing staff; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary professional staffs; providing physical and psychological support for patients, friends, and families. Accomplishes nursing human resource objectives by selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising job contributions; recommending compensation actions; adhering to policies and procedures. Meets nursing operational standards by contributing information to strategic plans and reviews; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; identifying system improvements. Meets nursing financial standards by providing annual budget information; monitoring expenditures; identifying variances; implementing corrective actions. Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand service requirements. Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures. Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing divisions philosophies and standards of care; enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations; measuring health outcomes against standards; making or recommending adjustments. Completes patient care requirements by scheduling and assigning nursing and staff; following up on work results. Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families. Promotes patients independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching and counseling patient, friends, and family and reinforcing their understanding of disease, medications, and self-care skills. Provides information to patients and health care team by answering questions and requests. Resolves patient needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies. Maintains safe and clean working environment by designing and implementing procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from other health care professionals. Protects patients and employees by developing and interpreting infection-control policies and protocols; enforcing medication administration, storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations. Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by monitoring confidential information processing. Maintains documentation of patient care services by auditing patient and department records. Ensures operation of medical and administrative equipment by verifying emergency equipment availability; completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturers instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.. Maintains nursing supplies inventory by studying usage reports; identifying trends; anticipating needed supplies; approving requisitions and cost allocations. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies. Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods. Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Facility Requirements:

• Must have ACLS & BLS certifications, these must be attached to the submission (Must be through the American Heart Association)
• Must have 2 years recent hospital house supervisor experience
• Will be responsible for organizing bed flow and oversee nursing care of 3 medical/surgical/telemetry units and 1 ICU unit.
• Must have ICU experience
• Must have vent/trach experience
• Must have California RN license, must be attached to resume
• The shift is 1800-0630 (Night Shift), days will vary, it is expected that the candidate work every other weekend.