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Registered Nurse
House Supervisor
Houston, TX, US
We’re searching for a PRN House Supervisor, someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position you will be responsible for ensuring seamless patient care and campus operations that fosters family centered care. Available 24 hours a day, seven day a week basis. Responsible for facilitation of patient flow, appropriate placement of patient bed assignments, requests for patient transfers, internal and external nursing unit staffing.
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Responsibilities:
- Ensures cost-effective and appropriate use of employee resources.
- Determine hospital wide patient flow and staffing needs as evidenced by actual staffing in collaboration with local leadership.
- Determines placement of float pool staff based on patient classification, census data and employee competencies as measured by appropriate distribution of the float pool each shift.
- In collaboration with unit Patient Care Manager (PCM) decisions to utilize and/or cancel agency, overtime and additional staff are made to ensure the delivery of high quality in a cost-effective manner as measured by patient classification system data.
- Works with charge nurses to determine unit staffing needs with feedback from the leadership teams in each unit.
- Ensures appropriate and timely placement of internal and external transfers for all patients requiring admission.
- Demonstrates strong effective interpersonal communication skills with patients, families, and staff.
- Acts as a clinical resource for nursing staff and ancillary personnel.
- Serves as the Clinical leader/resource to address hospital wide issues and events.
- As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.
Requirements:
- Required bachelor's degree of Science in Nursing
- Required RN - Lic-Registered Nurses by the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact and BLS - Cert-Basic Life Support by the American Heart Association
- Required 2 years of nursing experience
About Texas Children’s
Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus is Houston’s first community hospital designed, built and equipped exclusively for children in one of the city’s most rapidly growing communities in the area from Sugar Land to Bryan-College Station, Texas. Located at I-10 and Barker Cypress, our 515,007-square-foot hospital houses the only 24/7 pediatric emergency room in the Greater West Houston area, four operating rooms, 16-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 46 acute care beds, advanced imaging services including MRI and CT scans, a neurophysiology sleep lab, a pathology lab and a full-scale pharmacy.
To join our community of 14,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.
Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.
