Description
Summary of Position:
The Nurse Supervisor collaborates and promotes patient health by developing day-to-day management and long-term planning for patients and staff in Home Health Hospice and Advanced Care. This position develops staff, ensures appropriate documentation, and promotes effective communication with team members. The Nurse Supervisor will also collaborate with physicians and multidisciplinary professional staff, provide physical and psychological support for patients, families, and their support system. This position will provide oversight for the department in the absence of unit management, address patient care, staffing, and any other incidents that may arise, supervise staff and manage subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs, handle administrative responsibilities and ensure adequate staffing for the oncoming shift. The Nurse Supervisor will also determine issues to be referred to the Director of HHH and Advanced Care, Hospice Medical Director and/or Administrator On Call.
Qualifications
Education:
● Completion of an accredited Nursing program.
● Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
Experience:
● Minimum two years recent experience in designated department or similar setting preferred.
● Minimum two years recent supervisory experience preferred.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
● Knowledge of nursing practices in designated department.
● Highly effective written and verbal communications skills.
● Proficient computer skills as are required to document, communicate and enter information into the electronic medical records system.
● Strong people skills including the ability to recruit and train volunteers.
● Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and ability to work with minimal supervision.
● Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
● Ability to collaborate with various departments in and outside of the Barton Health System in order to provide consistently exceptional patient care.
● Attention to detail, meticulous development and maintenance of regulatory paperwork
Certifications/Licensure:
● Current California RN and Nevada RN license or ability to obtain prior to start date.
● Current CPR/BLS certification by the American Heart Association (BLS for the Healthcare Provider) or ability to obtain prior to start date.
● Valid California or Nevada Driver's license (depending on state of employee's residence) or ability to obtain prior to start date
● Current vehicle insurance
● Certified Hospice Palliative Nurse (CHPN) certification or ability to obtain within two years.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
● While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, stand, sit, and talk or hear.
● The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.
● The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
● Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
● Lifts, positions, pushes and/or transfer patients.
● The employee must be able to lift and/or move a minimum of 50 pounds.
Working Conditions
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
● Routine Hospital/Healthcare & Office/Administrative conditions.
● Contact with patients and guests under a wide variety of circumstances.
● Regularly exposed to the risk of bloodborne diseases.
● Exposure to infections and contagious disease.
● Exposed to hazardous anesthetic agents, body fluids and waste.
● Subject to hazards of flammable and explosive gases.
● Subject to varying and unpredictable situations, including the handling of emergency or crisis situations.
● Subject to pressure due to irregular hours, frequent interruptions and stressful situations due to multiple demands.
● Occasional travel to various health system locations.
Essential Functions
1. Provides consistently exceptional care at all times.
2. Received case referrals. Reviews available patient information related to case, including disciplines required, to determine home care needs. Assigns appropriate clinicians to case.
3. Accomplishes nursing human resource objectives by selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising job contributions; recommending compensation actions; adhering to policies and procedures.
4. Meets nursing operational standards by contributing information to strategic plans and reviews; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; identifying system improvements.
5. Meets nursing financial standards by providing annual budget information; monitoring expenditures; identifying variances; implementing corrective actions.
6. Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.
7. Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.
8. Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care; enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations; measuring health outcomes against standards; making or recommending adjustments.
9. Completes patient care requirements by scheduling and assigning nursing and staff; following up on work results.
10. Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
11. Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching and counseling patient, friends, and family and reinforcing their understanding of disease, medications, and self-care skills.
12. Provides information to patients and health care team by answering questions and requests.
13. Resolves patient needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
14. Maintains safe and clean working environment by implementing procedures and following regulations.
15. Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by monitoring confidential information processing.
16. Maintains documentation of patient care services by auditing patient and department records.
17. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
18. Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.
19. Accomplishes organizational goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
20. Assists the Director in the planning, implementation and evaluation of in-service and continuing education programs.
21. Responds to the needs of the department by performing other duties, as necessary
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