Nursing Supervisor, Women and Babies Hospital, Part-Time (Night Shift)

Job Description

Location: Lancaster, PA
Schedule: Part-Time, 20 hours/week, Night Shift. One 8-hour shift, and one 12-hour shift per week. Every third weekend rotation requirement.

About the Role

The Nursing Supervisor is responsible and accountable for the administrative supervision of the hospital in the absence of the senior leadership. She/he functions as in-house administrator utilizing the on-call nursing and hospital senior administrator as needed for consultation. She/he is responsible and accountable for the management of nursing services and the quality and safety of nursing care provided across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Notifies the Nursing and Senior Administrator on call for an actual or evolving patient visitor or staff issue that requires immediate action to prevent harm, injury, or any disruption of hospital operations that negatively impacts patient safety or care.
• Demonstrates understanding of situations that require legal, risk, and public relations input and counsel and acts accordingly.
• Acts as a resource person, liaison, and effectively interacts with physicians, staff, patients, and significant others to address and as needed document follow-up on concerns/issues.
• Accurately and thoroughly completes shift reports SBAR communication tool.
• Provides management through the interpretation and access to nursing and hospital policies and procedures. Aware of Joint Commission, CMS, DOH, and other regulatory standards to support patient care.
• Participates in development of nursing strategic plan and annual operational goals and objectives.
• Assists in the consistency of communication of hospital and nursing operations through unit-based and departmental rounding.
• Responds to emergent situations e.g., Rapid Response, Trauma alert, MTP, Code Blue, Code Red etc.
• Collaborates in organ procurement.
• Participates in Shared Governance councils/co-councils as leader/co-leader or participant.
• Staffing Responsibilities:
  • Identifies the mix and quantity of nursing personnel needed to provide safe, quality patient care for the overall operation of the unit and for each shift on a daily basis based upon patient needs, staffing matrix, and staff competencies.
  • Reallocates staff as needed to provide safe, quality of care across the nursing organization.
  • Adjusts staffing as needed with attention to financial objectives as appropriate.
  • Sets up sitters and cognitive coaches as needed to assure patient safety.
  • Identifies patients at risk for elopement and appropriately assigns resources and designated unit.
  • Collects sick FMLA calls and adjusts staffing accordingly. Notes trends and issues and communicates accordingly with the Nurse Manager.
  • Proactively participates in staffing analysis for weekend coverage; notes and communicates trends to Directors of Nursing/CNO.
  • Supervises and directs the central nursing staff office to assure balanced and appropriate staffing across nursing organization.
  • Plays key role in bed coordination and allocation during periods of surge alerts.
  • Alerts nurse manager of staffing needs that are not able to be addressed daily through the staffing office.
  • Provides direct patient care as clinically competent and indirect patient care support as needed in appropriate emergent situations.
• Human Resources Organizational Management:
  • Evaluates the performance of unit personnel and communicates with the Nurse Managers/Educators.
  • Identifies learning needs of staff and as appropriate, participates in the development of shift-specific education and evaluation.
  • Identifies potential disciplinary concerns, performance, behavior, attendance/punctuality, disciplines as appropriate, and communicates, follows up with Nurse Manager.
  • Participates in the process of managing concerns of staff diversion and potential staff incapacity in the absence of departmental leadership.
  • Holds staff accountable to quality, safe patient care through compliance with approved policies and procedures.
  • Participates in staff and peer evaluations providing feedback and opportunities for improvement.
  • Bed Flow Coordination:
    • Plays key role in bed coordination and allocation during periods of surge alerts.
    • Directs the nursing office-based bed coordinators.
    • Communicates census and bed flow plans daily at huddle.
    • Collaborates and assigns bed of transfers from other hospitals to LGH.
    • Determines and communicates need to hold patients in non-bedded units e.g., PACU, post-procedure areas etc., based on census and discharges.

Qualifications

• Current licensure as Registered Professional Nurse, issued by the PA State Board of Nursing.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
• Seven (7) years of experience as a registered nurse in an acute care setting.
• Three (3) or more years of experience in a managerial hospital operations role e.g., Assistant Nurse Manager, Nurse Manager, Nursing Supervisor, Charge Nurse Facilitator.
• A health care provider in good standing with Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal and state health insurance programs, i.e., not excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid, or any other federal or state health insurance program.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (Required).
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required).
• Registered Nurse - PA (Required).
• Education or Equivalent Experience:
  • Bachelor of Science Nursing (Required).

Skills

• Ability to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in the job description.

Schedule

Details about schedule are not specified in the job description.

Qualifications

• Current licensure as Registered Professional Nurse, issued by the PA State Board of Nursing.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
• Seven (7) years of experience as a registered nurse in an acute care setting.
• Three (3) or more years of experience in a managerial hospital operations role e.g., Assistant Nurse Manager, Nurse Manager, Nursing Supervisor, Charge Nurse Facilitator.
• A health care provider in good standing with Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal and state health insurance programs, i.e., not excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid, or any other federal or state health insurance program.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (Required).
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required).
• Registered Nurse - PA (Required).
• Education or Equivalent Experience:
  • Bachelor of Science Nursing (Required).