RN Supervisor
Description
BETHESDA
EVENING RN SUPERVISOR
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Summary: The Evening RN Supervisor is responsible for supporting and leading all neighborhoods in providing quality care, while ensuring the safety and well-being of residents. This leadership positions provides support, coaching, and direction to evening team members and plays a significant role in contributing to a positive culture for individuals to live and work. Provides quality, efficient, and loving care to each resident in a personalized way. Administrates medications and performs treatments as ordered by physicians. Informs physicians and families of changes in physical or mental conditions.
Job Relationships:
- Reports to: Director of Nursing
- Interrelationships with: Case Managers, Social Workers, Dietary Manager, and Activity Director
- External Contacts: Resident family members, visitors, volunteers, physicians, hospital, or clinic personnel, other health care personnel, clergy, nursing staff at Ridgewater College, or Hospice staff
- Internal Contacts: All other staff and residents.
- Supervisory Responsibilities: RN/LPN Med Admin, TMAs, and Nursing Assistants.
Hours of Work:
Evening Supervisor - 2:00 pm-10:30 pm, Monday - Friday, no holiday rotation but must work Christmas Eve and New Years Eve if it falls on scheduled days of week. This position is also included in the on-call rotation for weekend rotation.
Dress Code: Clean, fitted scrubs in solid colors or simple patterns. Bethesda shirts. Footwear: Closed-toe, comfortable, slip-resistant shoes. Hair and Hygiene: Maintain a high standard of cleanliness, oral hygiene and deodorant. Neatly tied back if long. Identification: Visible name badge, worn on chest area. PPE: Compliance with facility guidelines for masks, gloves, goggles, etc. if applicable. Piercings: Covered or removed if posing infection or safety risk. Tattoos: Covered or removed if posing infection or safety risk. General Appearance: Clean, unwrinkled scrubs. Minimal jewelry/accessories. Nails must be kept clean and neatly trimmed or filed. Jeans with no holes or rips on Fridays.
Essential Requirements of Work: (Minimum qualifications necessary to function at full productivity.)
- Education:
- Graduate from approved school for nursing and currently licensed in the State of Minnesota as a Registered Nurse
- Maintaining 24 continuing education credits every two-years
- Attending in-services and workshops to update knowledge of geriatric care.
- Experience
- Long-term care experience preferred, with a strong interest in geriatric nursing
- Supervisory or management skills
- Preferred proficiency in all nursing skills
- Basic computer skills
- Experience in the proper administration of medication
- Knowledge and ability to perform CPR when needed
- Medication administration including PO, IM, Subq, Intradermal, and IV
- Dressing changes
- Catheterization-male and female
- Tube feedings
- Trachea care
- IV administration and site care
- Vital signs
- Personal:
- Ability to speak, read, and write in English
- Ability to follow, clear, written and oral instructions
- Ability to deliver clear, written, and oral instructions
- Possess an honest, respectful attitude toward people
- Have a professional image
- Ability to be calm and level headed
- Have common sense, moral integrity
- Ability to insure confidentiality
- Ability to communicate difficult issues in a tactful manner
- Ability to learn from mistakes
- Provide a pleasant attitude and cheerful disposition towards staff, family, and residents
- Arrive to work and depart from work on a timely basis
- Job Knowledge
- Well-developed organizational skills
- Well-developed and practiced time management skills
- Excellent physical assessment skills with ability to decide, direct, prioritize resident needs
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Supervisory knowledge and abilities
- Knowledge of disaster plans
- Maintain professional conduct and provide a leadership role
- Knowledge of nursing policies and procedures
- Ability to understand and support residents in differing phases of health, life, and death
- Ability to understand and support residents in differing phases of health, life, and death
- Possess good understanding of nursing processes and techniques
- Support confidentiality, dignity, and trust among residents and staff
- Insure the promotion and protection of resident’s rights
- Knowledge of aseptic technique and infection control practices
- Ability to evaluate resident’s condition with knowledge of which warrant quick action and to whom it should be reported
- Thorough knowledge of medications and the proper administration of them including time, dose, route, frequency, and side effects.
- Thorough knowledge of State and Federal regulations as related to the administration of medication treatments
- Ability to read and understand all physician’s orders and other orders given
- Possess an alertness and awareness of signs and symptoms of changes in resident’s conditions
- Knowledge of assessments that help complete the MDS.
Physical Demands of the Job:
- Ability to bend, stoop, work from knees for short periods
- Patient handlers must sign & comply with the Skilled Nursing Facility Safe Handling Policy
- Occasional pushing/pulling of medication cart
Mental Demands of the Job:
- Working in an environment with many residents who exhibit a wide range of emotions and needs, including occasional aggressive behavior.
- Ability to work within time restraints
- Ability to work in an environment with frequent interruptions, having skills to prioritize job duties
- Ability mutual respect change work assignments with short notice.
Principle Job Responsibilities
Responsibility: Provide clinical care to residents.
- Monitor health changes of all residents
- Receive report from nurses at start of shift and assess residents as needed and direct care.
- Perform other required assessments per Bethesda policies
- Restraint and side rail assessments
- Pain Assessments
- Fall Risk assessment
- MDS assessments
- Skin assessments
- Latex allergy assessments
- 24-hour assessments
- Communicate changes in resident’s health to their primary doctor, charge nurses, and resident families
- Make rounds with doctors and be responsible for the interpretation of orders and follow through
- Support the terminal resident to a dignified death
- Support resident family members during the dying process
- Be familiar with and obey all laws regarding resident rights and vulnerability including reporting any incidents of known or suspected resident abuse or neglect. Participate in investigation as requested
- Assure Mantouxs are administered to new residents and staff as needed.
- Assist in daily, weekly, and monthly charting on each resident.
- Hold regular staff meetings
- Respond to and oversee any emergencies in the building.
- Perform Heimlich Maneuver and/or CPR when needed
- Assess any resident with incident involving injuries
- Set-up emergency medical care if needed
- Coordinate discharge planning for medical and nursing care to assure continuity of care after discharge.
Responsibility: Provide staff supervision with focus on teamwork and team process.
Tasks:
- Supervise RNs, LPNs, NA/Rs in the implementation of quality resident care.
- Assist LPNs and NA/Rs with resident cares as needed.
- Fill in for Director of Nursing as needed in her absence.
- Fill in for LPN/RN as medication nurse as needed.
- Actively enforce all policies and procedures.
- Maintain confidentiality at all times.
- Encourage teamwork and develop trusting relationships with all employees to provide the best care possible for all residents.
- Encourage the implementation or proper nursing process.
- Promote resident and staff safety at all times. Follow up on all Employee Injury and Investigation reports under “Supervisor’s Report of Injury”.
- Assist with staff evaluations as requested.
- Communicate all pertinent information to Director of Nursing and other co-workers.
- Replace employees who are unable to work as needed and help with staffing challenges.
- Complete audits and education as assigned.
Responsibility: Perform all charting with accuracy and timeliness
Tasks:
- Complete necessary paperwork for residents, admissions, transfers, deaths, and discharges.
- Develop and write a care plan for residents.
- Enter care plans into computer and update care plans as needed.
- Weekly charting on residents.
- Complete necessary paperwork for doctor appointments, transfers, and hospital admissions.
Responsibility: Promote and participate in professional and personal growth.
Tasks:
- Attend nursing in-services.
- Attend professional staff meetings.
- Use available resources.
- Maintain professional conduct and provide leadership.
- Attend outside workshop to enhance on the job performance and maintain professional license.
- Support confidentiality, dignity, and resident rights at all times.
- Accept constructive criticism and suggestions gracefully.
- Maintain pleasant attitude and cheerful disposition towards staff, family and residents.
- Assist in orientation of new team members as needed.
- Provide support to other staff, recognizing the extreme stresses in this job.