Night House Supervisor

We are seeking an experienced and compassionate Night Supervisor to join our dedicated healthcare team. In this pivotal role, you will lead and mentor our nursing staff, ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care while fostering a supportive and collaborative environment. If you are passionate about improving patient outcomes and driving excellence in nursing practice, we invite you to apply!

Job Summary

The house supervisor administers, plans, directs, and coordinates nursing service functions and activities for the Nursing Departments.  Responsible for the recommendation, development, and implementation of policies and procedures in these areas, and for keeping the Director of Inpatient or CNO informed of progress and potential problems.  Maintains and promotes collaboration with other service areas, and serves as on-campus Administration in the absence of the Administration.

Primary Job Responsibilities

1. Receives every shift updates on the condition of each patient. Ensures notification of the physician of major changes.
2. Supervises and directs all nursing care given to patients of Memorial Hospital.
3. Responds to emergency and/or code situations and delegates appropriate actions. Implements internal/external disaster, fire, tornado, and bomb plans as needed.
4. Administers direct patient. Relieves the nurses working in these departments for breaks and meals.
5. Assists with admitting patients and discharge planning. Arranges for emergency transfers and operative procedures.
6. Utilizes effective communication strategies, which result in intended outcomes.
7. Delegates unit work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of requires patient care support activities. Understands the limits of delegation to licensed and unlicensed personnel and consistently works within those boundaries.
8. Coordinates team assignments and makes adjustments based upon patient and unit needs; follows up on delegated patient care tasks for quality and completeness.
9. Utilizes the appropriate chain of command for resolution of difficult issues.
10. Maintains competency for the operation of all unit equipment.
11. Must be able to help in all nursing departments.
12. Carries supervisor phone and addresses or delegates all incoming calls.
13. Gets medications from pharmacy and mixes, as needed.
14. Completes shift to shift staffing and handles all call-ins.
15. Rounds on all inpatients during shift.
16. Collaborates by working with others to achieve unit and organizational goals.
17. Participates in unit meetings.
18. Supervises and directs all nursing care given to patients, ensuring consistent quality and safety by assigning and changing staff as necessary. Utilizes patient acuity and adjusts staffing accordingly.
19. Acts as a liaison between patient, family, physician, and all hospital departments and nursing personnel; functions in a resource/advisory capacity to nursing personnel. Serves as an advocate for Nursing/Hospital Administration in promoting and supporting the mission and philosophies of Memorial Hospital.
20. Prepares written documentation as required for the department. Assists with performance reviews and disciplinary action as well as coaching and counseling of the staff.  Evaluates competency of the staff.
21. Performs other duties as assigned.
22. Assisting Inpatient RN’s with high acuity tasks or procedures with physicians at bedside as needed

• Overseeing LPN’s doing their IV pushes, hanging IV piggybacks, assisting with cares of chest tubes/wound vacs/complicated dressings/etc.
• Daily checks on crash cart/emergency equipment; house alarms; temperature checks

23. Staff for 24 hours:

• Covering staffing for next shift
• Covering staffing for “call-ins” when RN or healthcare worker calls in sick.
• Covering for increases in census during current shift, or increases in acuity.
• Covering low census

24. Responding to Crisis Situations:

• Reports to ED or patient room, for all Code Blues/STEMI and Stroke alerts/Rapid response
• Calls in on-call staff

25. Transferring patients outside the hospital:

• Assisting physician by calling hospitals for bed availability
• Transfer Packet: getting paperwork, charting complete, EMTALA signatures
• Notify ancillary departments to provide discs, push films, etc.
• Calling for transfer vehicle/helicopter

26. Pharmacy Backup:

• Finding and obtaining medications for attending RN’s, that are not carried in the Omnicell.
• Mixing IV drips that are not standard mix concentrations.
• Assisting attending RN’s to run and monitor IV drips not commonly used at this facility
• Restocking Omnicell if needed
• Calling On-call Pharmacy as needed
• Restocking Crash carts and emergency medicines as needed.
• Changing pharmacies for patients at discharge when pharmacies are closed.

27. Swing Bed Patients:

• Assess transfer documents for appropriateness of admission when social services/administration staff unavailable
• Assign bed and staff as patients accepted and arrive
• Enter all admission orders when admitting physicians not available
• Perform medication reconciliation from receiving hospital
• Obtain/Assist attending RN to obtain medications for patients if pharmacy unavailable
• Assist with admission process

28. Trouble-Shooter:

• Answer all phone call questions
• Taking orders from off-site physicians, putting them into Epic, and carrying them out.
• Making arrangements for medical equipment, home health, hospice, oxygen, medication, pick up, etc., for discharges on weekends or off hours when social services isn’t available.
• Round with attending physicians as needed
• Round with consulting physicians as needed
• Round with covering physicians, assisting them with order entry, admission and discharge procedures.

29. Troubleshooting computer problems:
30. Epic order entry and problems with access
31. Troubleshooting Omnicell, and assisting staff with obtaining medications
32. Computer failure and downtime: managing to switch form computer to paper, locating paper charts, supplies; assisting departments in patient care and documentation, running slips and reports and orders to lab and radiology

Required Qualifications
1. Currently licensed in the State of Illinois.
2. ACLS Certification

Preferred Qualifications
1. Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
2. Three to five years experience in critical care.
3. Experience in a supervisory capacity, such as head nurse, is beneficial.