Nursing House Supervisor

Gillette Children's • St Paul, MN

31d • $48 - $72

About The Position

Join the Nursing House Supervisor Team at Gillette! 0.6 FTE; Day/Evening rotation, Mon-Thurs 10-hour shifts 2PM-12:30AM. Every 4th weekend, Fri-Sun, 9AM-9:30PM 12-hour shifts. Nursing Support Team. (Option to pick up RN shifts when not working as the supervisor to work as bedside nurse.) This position exists to coordinate the delivery of high quality, safe, efficient, and effective care to hospitalized patients and their families. Incumbent in this position serves as a resource to staff members to maximize outcomes and meet the expectations and standards for care. Incumbent role models professional practice and assists others in interpretation and implementation of standards, policies and procedures. Incumbent coordinates resources between departments including outpatient departments as well as external agencies and provides support to problem solve concerns, complaints and/or process or system issues. Specific duties are determined by the work setting or patient population served; however, in all positions, serving patients with challenging and complex conditions requires a concentration of specialized staff able to work in highly coordinated teams. We organize care around each patient’s condition which requires staff at multiple levels and across many departments to exhibit exceptional teamwork qualities including communicating efficiently and effectively and adopting the behaviors required for high functioning integrated teams. Compensation & Benefits Information The hourly wage for this opportunity is $47.90 to $71.68, with a median wage of $59.73/hour. Pay is dependent on several factors including relevant work experience, education, certification & licensure, and internal equity. Hourly pay is just one part of the compensation package for employees. Gillette supports career progression and offers a competitive benefits package that includes a retirement savings match, tuition and certification reimbursement, paid time off, and health and wellness benefits for .5 FTE and above. $1.75 weekend/ $2.35 evening/ $4.00 night differential is available for this position .

Requirements

• Current Registered Nurse (RN) license through the MN Board of Nursing
• Documentation of completion of a professional nursing program (RN program) and a bachelor’s degree in nursing or other healthcare related field
• Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification. If candidate holds valid CPR for through another acceptable organization (as determined by Gillette), candidate may be able to begin employment but must complete Basic Life Support through the American Heart Association within one month of employment.
• Must be interested in working with people with short term or long-term disabilities that begin in childhood
• Excellent customer service and interpersonal communication skills
• Physically able to work hours required and physically able to transport patients

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Nursing or other healthcare related field
• Current PALS certification
• Nursing Specialty Certification

Responsibilities

• Utilizes leadership principles in mobilizing the patient care team to achieve positive patient outcomes.
• Communicates real time patient-related nursing data and information to enhance active and informed decision making by patients, families, nurse colleagues, and other healthcare providers.
• Monitors and holds staff and providers accountable for timely and accurate documentation of patient care.
• Demonstrates and assists interdisciplinary team with adjustment in interactions, the delivery of care, and/or clinical techniques.
• Uses systems thinking to influence care models around episodes of care using integration, problem solving, and coordination among interdisciplinary teams.
• Ensuring adequately trained nursing staff is available and properly assigned to provide direct patient care.
• Prioritizing and implementing patient care during high census or capacity challenge
• Supervises and leads nursing care and health education reflecting specific patient, family, cultural and community needs.
• Employs strategies to promote health in a safe environment.
• Seeks opportunity to evaluate effectiveness of health education as culturally and developmentally appropriate.
• Exercises independent judgment that influences care and demonstrates understanding of potential clinical implications.
• Supervises and delegates care based on the abilities and limitations of care personnel and patient acuity.
• Generates, shares, and accepts new ideas and incorporates into own daily work.
• Seeks information and generates optional solutions to perceived problems through interactive problem solving with individuals.
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and presents information in contextual formats that clarifies significance of the data relative to patient care.
• Assumes a leadership role with influencing and monitoring the standards of patient care, including implementation of policies and procedures.
• Integrates high ethical standards and core values into everyday work activity.
• Utilizes leadership, team building, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills to build partnerships.
• Identifies, interprets, and monitors the implementation of organizational policies and procedures according to regulations, professional and community standards.
• Protects the confidentiality of personal health information.
• Actively represents the department in committees, task forces, unit activities or other work groups and disseminates information and decisions to colleagues and peers.
• This includes attending a minimum of 75% of department staff meetings.
• Leads, chairs, or co-chairs minimum of one engagement activity.
• Ensures accountability through the use of dashboards and promote transparency through reporting of near misses and medical errors.
• Lead or facilitate participation in department staff meetings.
• Demonstrates meaningful contributions to the productivity of the professional environment of the department and the Nursing Collaborative Governance model.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the dynamic forces contributing to cultural diversity and the impact of those forces on the professional healthcare environment.
• Collaborates with manager to ensure resource allocations, development, and implementation of strategies reflect the clinical and programmatic operation needs of the unit.
• Provides examples indicating that the Engaged Professional Practice model is fully enculturated in their professional practice.
• Leads staff to use the model as their guide in decision making.
• Participates in activities that promote professional growth, ease of access, quality improvement and patient satisfaction.
• Nurses Supervisors are accountable for keeping pace with expanding evidence and knowledge, by knowing how to access, assess, and apply the information and knowledge he/she needs in order to practice.

Benefits

• Gillette supports career progression and offers a competitive benefits package that includes a retirement savings match, tuition and certification reimbursement, paid time off, and health and wellness benefits for .5 FTE and above.
• $1.75 weekend/ $2.35 evening/ $4.00 night differential is available for this position

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level