Summary:

The RN Supervisor is responsible to maintain the nursing philosophy, objectives, and standards of quality nursing care; and ensure compliance with standards, codes, rules and regulations, and the policies set-forth by Mountainside.

Job Requirements:

• Licensure and Certifications: Employee maintains current licensure and/or required certifications.

• Annual Mandatory Education: Employee completes annual Mandatory Education Module, Annual Health Assessment, Age Specific requirements, etc…

• Time and Attendance: Employee complies with all HealthAlliance and departmental policies for time and attendance.

• Professional Appearance: Employee complies with HealthAlliance policy for professional Appearance (Dress Code), including wearing ID Badge.

• Safety – maintains a safe environment for patients, visitors, physicians and employees.tandards of ExcellencResponsibilities

Responsibilities:

Administrative functions:

• Notifies the Director of Nursing and Administrator on call as required.

• Participates actively with IDT and follows-through on actions determined by the Team.

• Is responsible for every resident in the facility.

• Serves as a resident advocate and ensures resident rights are maintained.

• Supports the medical staff.

• Works collaboratively with all departments at Mountainside and MMH.

• Works with staff in the planning of the unit’s services, programs, and activities.

• Ensures consistency between both floors in nursing care.

• Ensures staff comply with polices and standards of care.

• Ensures completeness of Accident and Incident reports.

• Promotes mission and values of Mountainside.

• Serves as a leader and resource for nursing staff.

• Participates in investigations as assigned.

• Ensures safe quality care is provided to the resident’s daily, and essential information is communicated to provide appropriate continuity of care from admission to discharge.

• Is a liaison with residents, families, and other departments to adequately plan for and provide resident care.

• Guides LPN Nurse Managers, LPNs, and CNAs responsibilities.

• Ensures accurate, appropriate, and complete documentation by all nursing staff.

Care Plan, Kardex, MDS, and Assessment

• Ensures accuracy of each.

• Completes timely as assigned.

• Effectively communicates the plan of care.

• Ensures that resident care plan is followed.

Communication:

• Ensures appropriate and ongoing communication to the resident, family, staff, MD, IDT, etc.

• Uses communication to enhance quality of resident care and staff working environment.

Personnel/Staff Development

• Assists with employee evaluations, employee praise, and discipline as necessary.

• Actively participates with staff education.

• Promotes an environment of learning.

• Ensures staff attends mandatory inservices and meets minimum continuing education requirements.

• Conducts routine staff audits to ensure care is being delivered per care plan and medical staff orders.

• Ensures work consistency among staff.

• Promotes a positive, friendly work environment.

Equipment and Supplies:

• Ensures appropriate are available and monitors that supplies are utilized appropriately to avoid waste.

• Is cost-effective.

Policy and Procedure Manuals

• Ensures staff awareness of manuals, including other departments (e.g. MSDS, emergency protocols).

• Uses manual and assists other staff on using policies as necessary.

Quality Assurance:

• Constantly strives to enhance the resident and staff experience.

• Reports and completes necessary paperwork for each resident incident/accident/change in condition.

Safety/Infection Control:

• Ensures staff compliance with standards and regulations.

• Reports potential outbreaks and takes appropriate measures to control/eliminate infection control exposures.

Staffing Coverage

• Required to ensure appropriate coverage for the nursing department 24/7, including weekends, holidays, and off-shifts.

• Is RN on-call when there is not an RN in-house.

• Works beyond normal working hours, or in other positions temporarily when necessary (e.g. administers medications).

• Is subject to callback during emergency conditions.

• Takes RN on-call as needed.

Other specific requirements:

• Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition, and be enthusiastic.

• Must work harmoniously with others.

• Seeks out new methods and principles to incorporate into the nursing practice.

• Creates and maintains an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment.

• Able to make independent decisions.

• Able to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies and procedures necessary to provide quality care.

• Promotes teamwork and collaboration among Mountainside staff members.

Ongoing education

• Must continually strive to enhance knowledge, and ensure evidenced-based nursing is being practiced.

• Encouraged to attend an out-of-facility continuing education seminars.

Other job duties as assigned.

and Objectivesf Performance Appraisal

Education:

• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing as an RN

Experience:

• 2 years clinical experience

Training/License:

• NYS RN License

Other:

• BLS, basic computer skills