Clinical RN Supervisor, Emergency Department, Night Shift

Responsibilities

• Operational leadership of shift including patient flow and assignment/adjustment of resources to meet dynamic changing needs throughout the shift.
• Champion efficient throughput and capacity management.
• Benchmark internal processes to improve practice.
• Lead and implement operational improvement initiatives and assure compliance via staff coaching and mentoring.
• Ensures shift practice is in compliance with state and federal medical laws (EMTALA, HIPAA, and House Bill 316).
• Maintain, support and encourage others with professional development.
• Resource Management: Demonstrates efficiency through the appropriate use of resources or supplies to support timely and effective delivery of patient care. Identifies needs for specific equipment and ensures adequate and properly functioning equipment and supplies are available for patient care.
• Identify operational needs for units including but not limited to needs related to capital equipment; medical supplies; office supplies; hours of practice; minor equipment; and equipment maintenance.
• Participate in the new hire process: Shadowing process, selection and oversee specific staff orientation to maintain established standards of care and to ensure competency.
• Specific professional development and coaching for assigned cohort of staff including quarterly rounding and annual performance appraisals.
• Provides immediate counseling for staff when specific behaviors or incidents negatively affect patient care or the general work environment. Write up incidents.
• Participates in the corrective action process.
• Promote staff retention, team building/collaboration.
• Performance Improvement/Regulatory Requirements: Ensure shift practice is in compliance with state and federal medical laws (EMTALA, HIPAA and House Bill 316). Enforce and maintain corporate compliance. Identify and oversee risk management issues. Ensures staff compliance with established policies, procedures, standards and accreditation and licensing regulations.
• Actively involved and engage staff in departmental performance improvement (PI) activities according to department PI plan.
• Assist the manager in evaluating the quality of patient care and staff performance through: Personal observation. Facilitating quality improvement monitoring activities. Interviewing patients/families/staff. Reviewing documentation.
• Clinical Resource and Competency: Maintain hospital wide and department specific nursing competencies and completes annual competencies in required time frame. Collaborate with the Department Educator and/or provides for orientation and educational needs identified in the department. Function as a clinical resource for area of clinical specialty. Promote the use of evidence based practice. Assist in identifying and operationalizing best practices in the unit. Facilitates ongoing staff professional growth.

Qualifications

• Education: BSN in nursing and current license in state of practice.
• Experience: 5 years clinical and progressive management experience. Preferably in Emergency Medicine.