Company: Kaiser Permanente
Location: Anaheim, CA
Career Level: Mid-Senior Level
Industries: Recruitment Agency, Staffing, Job Board
Description
Job Summary:
Acts at the on-site administrative designee for an entire facility for off-shifts and weekends. Manages all the patient care departments, ensuring appropriate quality of care and compliance with regulations.
Essential Responsibilities:
- For an entire facility, manages the off-hours and weekend patient care and nursing services activities.
- Ensures staff provides the highest quality of care and are in compliance with the Nurse Practice Act, TJC, federal, state, and local requirements.
- Coordinates and monitors staffing for all shifts and maintains appropriate staffing levels and skill mix.
- Participates in developing, reviewing, and updating departmental policies and procedures.
- Identifies and implements best practices to provide improved quality care and services.
- Assess and monitors clinical nursing practice for optimal patient care.
- Designs and evaluates processes to improve systems and patient care results across the continuum.
- Follows-up on all clinical issues.
- Monitors quality of care delivered, ensuring it meets age-related and developmental needs of patients.
- Maintains and monitors established policies, procedures, standards and practices for nursing services and patient care.
- Supervises staff, assesses their needs and identifies educational opportunities.
- Collaborates with all departments throughout the medical center.
- Acts as patient advocate.
- Assists in developing, monitoring and maintaining the budget.
- Identifies and recommends opportunities to reduce costs.
- Manages and resolves human resource, employee and department safety, and risk management issues.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- Minimum one (1) year supervisory or leadership experience required.
- Minimum four (4) years of acute care hospital experience required.
Education
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing required.
License, Certification, Registration
- Registered Nurse License (California)
- Basic Life Support
Additional Requirements:
- Demonstrated interpersonal, written and oral communication skills; knowledge of Nurse Practice Act, TJC, and other local, state, and federal regulations.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- CNML, NE or other related specialty certification preferred
- MSN preferred
- PALS preferred.
Notes:
- BSN required.
- ACLS required.
- Variable hours.
- House supervisor covering multiple service lines.
- Acute inpatient management experience required. (ICU or Telemetry)
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