LPN Nightshift Supervisor

About the role

The Nursing Supervisor - LPN position plays a crucial role in ensuring the highest quality of care at our life plan community. This role involves overseeing nursing staff and managing admissions, while also focusing on quality, compliance, and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Confirms staffing at the beginning of the shift.
• Completes a focused mid-shift round, checking in with Charge Nurses and addressing unresolved issues.
• Maintains availability for Nurse Wound Consultant rounds.
• Affords support during resident/patient meal times, assisting with feeding and serving.
• Coordinates resident and patient care with other departments, including Culinary, Housekeeping, Laundry, Maintenance, Therapy, Activities and Social Services.
• Fills in as a Charge Nurse and supports Admissions Nurses as needed.
• Attends all-employee and departmental meetings and in-service training as scheduled or as directed.
• Performs a nursing competency review and skill audit.
• Prepares and distributes wound reports.
• Audits Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) to monitor various tasks as determined by the Director of Nursing (DON).
• Creates risk event reports as needed and keeps DON and Unit Managers informed.
• Audits medical refrigerators, crash carts, and medical carts to ensure they are clean and stocked.
• Maintains a state of readiness for surveys by regulatory bodies.
• Checks documentation for accuracy to support RUG and Medicaid scores.
• Works with DON and/or Unit Manager to help reduce hospital readmissions.
• Reviews and responds to complaints and grievances from residents/patients and staff members.
• Maintains the confidentiality of resident information and honors the residents' personal and property rights.
• Supervises a designated area of the Nursing Department at a life plan community.
• Fosters a positive work environment that attracts, retains, and motivates employees.
• Interviews, selects, and orients new direct reports.
• Defines, establishes, and promotes performance expectations so direct reports understand and demonstrate excellence through high quality and consistent performance.
• Evaluates job performance of direct reports in accordance with the company policy and procedure and provides developmental guidance to staff for improved performance and growth.
• Makes sure there is a reasonable and sufficient plan for staffing should a direct report be absent or a direct reporting position be vacant.
• Responds timely and thoughtfully to questions, requests, and work product from departmental staff that has been provided for review and approval.

Qualifications

• Nursing degree from an accredited college, university or vocational school required.
• Current unencumbered license for the state of Ohio to practice as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) required.
• One year experience as a supervisor in a hospital, long term care facility, or other related health care facility required.
• One year experience working as a nurse in a hospital, long term care facility, or other related health care facility required.
• Proficiency with Windows, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and the internet required.
• Proficiency with electronic medical records (EMR) preferred.

Other Requirements

• Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.
• Subject to falls, burns from equipment, odors, and cuts - Work day.
• Subject to residents/patients with various disease processes - Occasional.
• May be exposed to infectious waste, disease, conditions, etc. including exposure to the AIDS and Hepatitis B viruses - Work day.
• Risk Category for Exposure to Bloodborne Diseases - I.