House Supervisor ( RN ) - Bronson Battle Creek - Full-time 12D

Bronson Healthcare•Battle Creek, NE

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Join Bronson Battle Creek in a vital leadership role supporting hospital-wide operations and patient care. As a House Manager, you’ll serve as the on-site clinical and administrative leader—helping teams navigate daily challenges, ensuring safe, high-quality care, and keeping operations running smoothly. This role is a great fit for an experienced RN who enjoys problem-solving, leading in real time, and collaborating across departments to support patients, families, and staff.

Requirements

Licensed Registered Nurse (RN) in good standing with the State of Michigan required
Bachelor’s degree required
BLS certification required by completion of core orientation
Must be able to operate and perform basic computer programs associated with record keeping in the Department
Ability to read, interpret, and analyze data from various computer systems and equipment associated with the delivery patient care on the floors
Must be able to work as a team member and be able to communicate effectively with visitors, physicians, hospital personnel, and administrative staff; such dealings may often require the use of significant tact in order to handle sensitive matters

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Nursing or Healthcare Administration (HCA)
Previous leadership or hospital operations experience
Knowledge of emergency preparedness and disaster response (including IS courses)
Hospital Incident Command courses IS-100.HCb, IS-200HCb, IS-200.HCa and IS-700.a, and NIH Stroke certification to be completed within 6 months of hire.
Overall knowledge of disaster planning and certification in IS courses highly preferred.
Advanced Life Support within 6 months of hire.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership and operational support across the hospital during the day shift
Coordinate patient flow, including admissions, transfers, and bed placement
Serve as a clinical and operational resource for nursing staff and departments
Respond to urgent issues, patient concerns, and service recovery needs
Partner with physicians, nursing teams, and support services to ensure safe, timely care
Monitor hospital capacity and support throughput to prevent delays
Lead or support safety huddles and hospital-wide communication
Act as the first point of contact for unexpected events and coordinate next steps
Conduct routine rounding to support staff and maintain a safe environment
Assist with staffing decisions and resource allocation as needed
Collaborate with external partners when coordinating transfers or emergency response
Participate as part of the stroke response team, including ensuring proper mixing and dosing of TPA
Coordinates and oversees hospital operations. Provides administrative direction.
Resolves crises and conflicts. Provides analysis, assessment and intervention for problems requiring immediate attention. Informs department managers and directors of problems and resolutions.
Investigates problems and complaints from patients, visitors, physicians and staff. Implements appropriate action and follow up.
Initial contact person for atypical events. Conducts initial assessment of event. Initiates appropriate action, ensuring stabilization of patient. Ensures notification of risk management, CSI and department manager and director.
Continually assesses hospital environment for safety concerns including patients, families, visitors and staff. Takes action as appropriate.
Attends all Safety Check-In Meetings Monday – Friday. Leads Safety Check-In Meetings on weekends and holidays.
Coordinates placement of all admissions and transfers. Communicates with Bronson First to coordinate all regional transfers.
Collaborates with physicians and Rapid Response to ensure optimal patient placement.
Monitors hospital capacity. Manages through-put to avoid delays in patient placement. Implements hospital surg plan as needed. Provides hospital wide communication regarding level of occupancy. Collaborates with ER physicians and ER charge nurse when hospital is at capacity.
Leads 0400/1600 Bed Planning Meetings. Works with staffing office to ensure appropriate placement of available staff. Assigns or reassigns staff as appropriate to maintain safe, competent levels of care in all areas, including placement of sitters.
Coordinates communication with outside organizations or their representatives, including other health care facilities, law enforcement agencies and the media. Relays appropriate information according to established policies. Involves public relations in all media calls.
Manages the initial response in the event of a disaster, crisis or emergency situation. Notifies incident commander. Coordinates all activities until incident commander arrives. Communicates with outside organizations or their representatives, including information regarding bed availability.
Ensures compliance with established policies and procedures, including Substance Abuse Policy. Ensures appropriate testing when reasonable suspicion for abuse exists.
Answers all calls for Employee Incident Hot Line after hours, on weekends and holidays. Provides initial triage and directs employee to ER as appropriate. Documents all calls on the Employee Injury & Illness Incident Report. Collaborates with ER physician to initiate prophylactic treatment of employees in the event of exposure to communicable diseases.
Identifies bed bugs in conjunction with EVS manager or designee. Coordinates notification of EVS management, facilities and Griffin Pest Control. Ensures room is properly sealed post discharge.
Conducts regular rounds on all hospital departments and units. Monitors unit activity, level of patient care and assists with problem resolution. Acts as mentor to staff and advocate to patients.
Oversees availability of supplies and equipment necessary for patient care. Provides direction during shortages. Provides direction during computer and monitoring downtime.