About this role
The Supervisor Clinical Acute Registered Nurse (RN) is responsible for the daily operations of the unit/department, ensuring effective patient care. This role is accountable for supervising staff and managing patient care for the assigned unit/department. This position identifies and achieves program goals and outcomes, while maintaining regulatory and professional standards. This role supports and maintains a cost-effective, progressive, and customer-focused service.
Essential Job Function:
- Applies nursing process to the development, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
- Develops, revises, and documents plan of care including discharge planning in collaboration with the patient, significant others, and health care providers.
- Implements interventions in a manner to maintain consistency, patient dignity, privacy and safety, assisting with educating staff regarding the nursing process, documentation, and use of the clinical pathways.
- Assists with the completion of performance appraisals and generates and/or participates in development of the departmental schedule and manages daily staffing operations.
- Provides input for annual budget process, monitoring and maintaining departmental cost-containment activities.
- Operationalizes the QI/PI program for department and facilitates staff PI/QI education and participation.
- Recognizes opportunities for QI process, participates in the designs and implementation of the design of these processes.
- Facilitates building and preserving collaborative relationships, including staff mediation.
- Facilitates/monitors ongoing activities to meet regulatory standards.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Education:
- Required: Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
- Preferred: Master of Science in Nursing.
Experience:
- Required: 3 years as a Registered Nurse with 1 year in clinical specialty.
Licensure/Certification/Listing:
- Required: Current North Carolina Registered Nurse license.
- Preferred: BLS (CPR)-American Red Cross or AHA Healthcare Provider.