Supervisor RN - Ear, Nose & Throat Clinic, Full-Time Day Shift

Summary

Registered Nurse, RN facilitates quality patient care through utilization of resources and maintains systems and procedures which enhance staff ability to deliver quality patient care and quality of all services, in such a manner as to lead the staff to function as a unified team administering quality care to the employees of this facility.

Major Job Functions

• Plans, organizes, implements, evaluates, and directs patient/client/employee care activities in each department in a clinically appropriate manner
• Maintains mechanisms to monitor continuing compliance with standards and guidelines established by JCAHO, OSHA, CDC, State Health Department, DFS, Worker Compensation Program, ADA, FMLA and other regulatory/accrediting agencies and established guidelines
• Ensures the department operates within the established annual budget
• Collaborates with department physicians and staff actively monitors patient quality of care and overall service quality. Utilizes results to implement measures for ongoing improvement of care
• Responsible for daily QC and equipment checks on unit
• Evaluates daily patient acuity
• Focuses on patient flow and expediting patient flow
• Assumes responsibility for professional development by maintaining required licensure, credentialing, and maintaining membership in professional organizations, attending continuing education programs and in-services. Implements new knowledge and skills into own practice, as well as shares new information with staff and peer groups
• Ensures HIPAA compliance with health records, retrieval, and storage. Coaches team on HIPAA regulatory guidelines
• Assumes responsibility for management and implementation of programs for exposures of employees to infectious diseases or blood and body fluids. Coordinates program with Infection Control Department, Pharmacy, Laboratory and hospital management and medical staff as appropriate
• Responsible for the over site of quality of patient care
• Assists with clinical education of staff members in the absence of Clinical Educator/Preceptor
• Expected to take patient assignment when other staffing options have been exhausted
• Expedites testing, wait times and clearances
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

The following qualifications, or equivalents, are the minimum requirements necessary to perform the essential functions of this job:

Education and Formal Training

• Associate's degree in Nursing required
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred
• Current Registered Nurse licensure in North Carolina or compact state license required

Work Experience

• 3 years of healthcare experience required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required

• Proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking the English language
• Demonstrates effective organizational leadership characteristics and skills
• Working knowledge of budgets, staffing, Performance Improvement as well as regulatory requirements
• Strong interpersonal skills required
• Knowledge of age-specific physiological, psychosocial, developmental, and spiritual needs for patients served
• Demonstrates excellent/effective communication skills, both verbal and written

Physical Requirements

• Speech and auditory acuity for communication of patient/client needs
• Visual acuity for observation/assessment of patient/client
• Much standing, walking, bending, and lifting up to 35 pounds utilizing proper body mechanics
• May involve skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parenteral contact with blood or other potentially infectious material
• May involve frequent local travel

Required Licenses and Certifications

BLS - American Heart Association