Rn Supervisor Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Current state license to practice nursing.
• Knowledge regarding operational leadership of shift including patient flow and assignment/adjustment of resources to meet dynamic changing needs throughout the shift.
• BSN in nursing.
• Current license in the state of practice.
• Minimum of five years of clinical nursing experience in area of clinical specialty.

Responsibilities

• Ensures excellent patient care is being delivered.
• Maintains expeditious patient flow with a focus on customer service.
• Supervises nursing staff.
• Provides input on staff evaluations and completes evaluations for their regular staff cohort.
• Assists with cost containment and manages all employees to do the same.
• Assumes operational leadership of shift including patient flow and assignment/adjustment of resources to meet dynamic changing needs throughout the shift.
• Actively identifies opportunities for improvement in patient satisfaction, performs trials and reports back to leadership on results.
• Supervises staff assigned to their unit or center of excellence and demonstrates the ability to coach and mentor staff.
• Leads and implements operational improvement initiatives and assures compliance via staff coaching and mentoring.
• Identifies needs for specific equipment and ensures adequate and properly functioning equipment and supplies are available for patient care.
• Ensures shift practice is in compliance with state and federal medical laws (EMTALA, HIPAA, and House Bill 316).
• Maintains hospital-wide and department-specific nursing competencies and completes annual competencies in the required time frame.
• Collaborates with the Department Educator and/or provides for orientation and educational needs identified in the department.
• Engages staff in departmental performance improvement (PI) activities according to the department PI plan.
• Provides immediate counseling for staff when specific behaviors or incidents negatively affect patient care or the general work environment.
• Writes up incidents.
• Champions efficient throughput and capacity management.
• Benchmarks internal processes to improve practice.
• Ensures staff behaviors support and are consistent with the RITE Values, Missions and Vision of UC Health and University Hospital.
• Provides transformational leadership as related to PFCC.
• Assists with developing and revising of departmental standards, policies and procedures.
• Has staffing and scheduling responsibility for cohort of staff and shift.
• Promotes patient care safety standards.
• Facilitates conflict resolution.
• Empowers staff to participate in decision making through shared governance/UBC.
• Maintains, supports and encourages others with professional development.
• Demonstrates efficiency through the appropriate use of resources or supplies to support timely and effective delivery of patient care.
• Identifies operational needs for units including but not limited to needs related to capital equipment; medical supplies; office supplies; hours of practice; minor equipment; and equipment maintenance.
• Participates in the new hire process: Shadowing process, selection and oversees specific staff orientation to maintain established standards of care and to ensure competency.
• Provides specific professional development and coaching for assigned cohort of staff including quarterly rounding and annual performance appraisals.
• Participates in the corrective action process.
• Promotes staff retention, team building/collaboration.
• Enforces and maintains corporate compliance.
• Identifies and oversees risk management issues.
• Ensures staff compliance with established policies, procedures, standards and accreditation and licensing regulations.
• Assists the manager in evaluating the quality of patient care and staff performance through personal observation, facilitating quality improvement monitoring activities, interviewing patients/families/staff, and reviewing documentation.
• Functions as a clinical resource for area of clinical specialty.
• Promotes the use of evidence-based practice.
• Assists in identifying and operationalizing best practices in the unit.
• Facilitates ongoing staff professional growth.