ID: Shift: 12 HR Days 07:00-19:00 Description: Job Specific Notes: RN Supervisor Outpatient DialysisLocation: Killeen, TXFacility: BSWH Killeen Outpatient ClinicDepartment: DialysisHours: Full-Time, Schedule is flexible1 year of RN experience with 6 months of directly dialysis experience required. JOB SUMMARYThe Supervisor, Nursing Procedural Registered Nurse (RN) is accountable for supervision of assigned nursing and unit-based personnel to provide a safe, caring environment for patients, family and staff which fosters professional nursing practice, mutual conclusion-making, inter-professional synergy and partnership with positive patient and staff outcomes. The Supervisor oversees day-to-day operations and productivity and assists the Nursing Manager in planning, developing, implementing, evaluating and monitoring policies and procedures, budgets and the allocation of resources, quality/performance improvement initiatives, educational programs and mutual governance councils to achieve departmental and organizational goals and targets. Provides nursing care as needed.This role is only to be used in specific procedural departments as resolved by the Office of the CNO.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLEClinical Judgment: Creates, fosters and sustains a healthy work environment which helps evidence-based practice and research. Coordinates patient care through partnership with inter-professional team members in planning, implementing and evaluating patients' plans of care. Identifies potential problems and/or resources for patients and families. Supervises personnel in providing safe, cost-effective, efficient care based on separate patient needs. Ensures staff members maintain proficiency based on standards of practice for patient population. Provides nursing care as needed.Clinical Inquiry: Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to, nursing delicate indicators. Facilitates practice changes among nursing staff through quality and performance improvement initiatives and use of best, evidence-based practices and research findings. Identifies, proposes and conducts clinical research.Caring Practices: Creates and sustains a humane, helpful, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Assists in the coordination of patient care conferences and inter-professional rounds to address patient/family needs, discharge planning and best caring practices and outcomes.Response to Diversity: Identifies issues arising from personal differences and develops awareness of these issues in nursing staff, medical staff and other health care providers. Role models, teaches and provides age-specific and developmentally-appropriate patient care in accordance with established guidelines and scope of duty or practice for patients served in department. Identifies and resolves conflicts between others that affect performance and/or the work environment.Advocacy and Moral Agency: Advocates on behalf of the nursing staff to represent the concerns of patients, families and staff. Fosters an ethical practice environment for professional practice and patient care based on optimum communication, synergy and coordination of care. Addresses ethical issues through a systematic process using institutional ethics committee as needed. Promotes health care at local, state and national levels.Facilitation of Learning: Monitors the learning needs of staff and patients/families and assists in the design, implementation and evaluation of educational activities to enhance their knowledge and skills. Fosters an environment that is helpful of staff's professional and personal growth. Facilitates the development of clinical and leadership expertise in staff through role modeling, teaching and coaching/mentoring. Identifies staff professional growth opportunities and assists in the development of the department's succession plan. Provides and evaluates a comprehensive onboarding/orientation program for newly-hired staff. Functions as a resource within the clinical specialty program.Partnership: Role models, teaches and mentors professional leadership and accountability for nursing's role within the inter-professional health care team. Partners with medical, allied health and administrative staff to ensure the provision of safe, quality, attentive care. Participates in departmental and organizational programs, committees and special projects to achieve desired outcomes.KEY SUCCESS FACTORSKnowledge and expertise of nursing and patient care standards and procedures.Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care applicable to the area of assignment.Knowledge of medical terminology; methods and practices of health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse reactions.Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly; both verbally and in writing.Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care to all patients through the nursing process and standards of nursing practice with care and respect for the diversity of human experience and to develop, evaluate, implement and, as necessary, modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of separate patients.Ability to make tactical conclusions around the allocation and direction of the work of supervised employees using established guidelines, policies and/or procedures.BENEFITSOur competitive benefits package includes the followingImmediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%Tuition ReimbursementPTO accrual beginning Day 1QUALIFICATIONS- EDUCATION - Associate's- EXPERIENCE - 2 Years of Experience- CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION - Registered Nurse (RN) Basic Life Support (BLS): BLS in 30 days of hire or transfer.Description for Job Board: Guaranteed Hours: Contract Weeks:91
