Job Description
At Insight Hospital & Medical Center, we are partnering with the community to build this historical institution into a model healthcare organization providing PATIENT CARE SECOND TO NONE!
- Acts as the administrative designee on behalf of and in cooperation with hospital administration.
- Responds to urgent administrative needs, complaint investigations, and any clinical or facility emergency.
- Serves as coordinator in emergency or disaster situation until relieved or assisted by the Administrator on call, Director of Nursing on call or other administrative staff members
- Performs services requested by the Administrator or Director on call. Communicates issues and works to resolve problems with other department managers.
- Interprets/clarifies goals, policies and procedures as necessary.
- Provides clinical expertise when necessary (i.e. transfer of patients requiring an RN, starting IVs and assisting staff with direct patient care).
- Provides support to patient/family/visitor/significant others, assisting them in the utilization of medical center resources as appropriate.
- Communicates regularly with Chief Nursing Officer and Executive Directors. Ensures the leadership is aware of events, staffing concerns and disciplinary situations.
- Assumes administrative responsibility for patient care staffing on assigned shifts.
- Makes purposeful rounds on patient care units, Emergency Department, OR/PACU, and Patient Placement to gather information needed to make staffing decisions.
- Makes staffing adjustments to assure compliance with minimal staffing standards outlined in the Nursing Staffing Plan.
- Provides guidance/counsel in regard to staffing adjustments.
- Communicates staffing and administrative activities with nurse managers, directors of nursing, product line managers, and the chief nursing officer.
- Provides guidance and coordination support to the healthcare team to optimize bed availability and achieve efficient patient throughput.
- Works closely with the patient care team (i.e. physicians, charge nurses, discharge planners, and patient care facilitators) to ensure timely coordination of daily discharges and transfers.
- Communicates with Environmental Services, Engineering/Facilities, Patient Placement and Patient Transport to identify, prioritize and resolve patient throughput bottlenecks.
- Rounds on patient care areas (inpatient units, ED, PACU) to identify delays in throughput and actively works with appropriate teams/departments to resolve delays in a timely manner.
- Responds to daily bed availability concerns as they arise.
- Proactively identifies patient throughput bottlenecks and works with clinical leaders to resolve them before they impact patient throughput.
- Collaborates with nursing colleagues to enhance patient care, colleague growth and development, and customer satisfaction.
- Provides relevant feedback to assist nurse managers to support performance management.
- Utilize daily opportunities to assist staff to acquire additional clinical/communication/conflict resolution skills.
- Serves on committees/task forces as appropriate
- Acts as a positive role model/change agent.
- Demonstrates responsibility for own personal and professional growth.
- Performs other related work as required or requested.
- Shift is 7:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
- Registered nurse licensure in the state of Illinois.
- Minimum of 3 years of current acute care experience as a registered nurse required.
- Supervisory experience preferred, such as charge nurse.
- Demonstrates outstanding human relations/communications skills.
- Comfort with change.
- Creativity and flexibility in problem resolution.
- Well-rounded clinical expertise.
- Paid Sick Time - effective 90 days after employment
- Paid Vacation Time - effective 90 days after employment
- Health, vision & dental benefits - eligible at 30 days, following the 1st of the following month
- Short and long-term disability and basic life insurance - after 30 days of employment
Insight Employees are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 as a condition of employment, subject to accommodation for medical or sincerely held religious beliefs.
Insight is an equal opportunity employer and values workplace diversity!
