Supervisor House Registered Nurse

McLaren Health Care Corporation; Pontiac (MI); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Health Care is seeking a Nurse Manager to oversee nursing care across assigned units within the medical center. The role emphasizes leadership, staffing oversight, and collaboration with physicians to ensure high-quality patient care.

You will supervise nursing staff, coordinate staffing plans, monitor patient throughput, and participate in quality improvement initiatives. Strong clinical leadership and teamwork are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in nursing.
• Licensed as a Registered Nurse to practice nursing in Michigan.
• A minimum of 2 years’ nursing-related experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or related health care field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the nursing care of the medical center and coordinate with nurse managers/administration.
• Oversee staffing, assignments, and adjustments within the Medical Center to meet patient care needs.
• Evaluate staffing needs and monitor shift-by-shift coverage; develop emergent staffing plans as needed.
• Lead quality improvement activities related to patient throughput and overall care quality.
• Assist in planning and implementing departmental policies and staff orientation.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Staff scheduling

Quality improvement

Throughput optimization

Education

Associate’s degree in nursing

Bachelor’s degree in nursing or related health care field

Job description

The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals across the state, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 730-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 242,000 Michigan lives, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network, and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 93,000 network providers throughout Michigan.

Responsible for the administration and management of services and personnel in all assigned nursing units, in collaboration with or in the absence of Administration and Nurse Managers.Demonstrates a leadership role in the coordination of patient care through the appropriate utilization of all resources: staff, equipment, supplies, etc.Oversee the placement of patients using expert planning and critical thinking skills as a clinical resource to both the nursing staff and physicians.

Essential Functions and responsibilities:

• Responsible for supervising the nursing care of the medical center.Handles basic administrative responsibilities and ensures the appropriate nurse manager or Medical Center administrator is informed of unusual events or activities and seeks advice.
• Oversee the staffing, assignments and staffing adjustments within the Medical Center using grids developed for individual units, to ensure proper levels of staffing are evident to meet patient care needs.
• Evaluates the needs for nursing personnel to care for patients throughout the hospital to establish needs for overtime and agency staff.Monitors staffing on a shift-by-shift basis to ensure that needs for nursing personnel have been met and develop an emergent staffing plan if they have not.
• Participate in quality assessment and continuous quality improvement activities, through identification of quality improvement opportunities, goal setting, collection and evaluation of data, implementation of action plans or related application.
• Assists in planning and implementation of departmental policies.
• Visits nursing units to oversee nursing care, assess operations and validate bed status.
• Advises and assists nursing staff in orientation with new and unusual medications or treatments during emergency situations.
• Makes appropriate judgments related to the placement of patients determining the order/number of inter-unit transfers based on ED/OR needs.Assigns patients to units based on the nature of the illness, clinical necessity and staffing efficiency.
• Monitors key indicators of patient throughput efficiency and contributes to the planning and implementation of improvement strategies.Leads performance improvement activities related to throughput.
• Leads performance improvement activities related to patient throughput.
• Assists in evaluating employees.
• Assists the Employee Health Department by evaluating an employee’s Fitness for Duty and evaluating employees who have had exposure to blood and body secretions, when that department is unavailable.Completes the appropriate records for exposures.
• Maintains and promotes confidentiality of all patients, employees, and physician information.
• Performs related duties as required or requested.

Qualifications:

Required:

· Associate’s degree in nursing

· Licensed as a Registered Nurse to practice nursing in Michigan

· A minimum of 2 years’ nursing-related experience

Preferred:

· Bachelor’s degree in nursing or related health care field

• Requisition ID: 26012352
• Daily Work Times: Varies
• On Call: No

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.

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McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employmentwithout regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status,national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classificationprotected by law.