Registered Nurse Supervisor (RN) - Progressive Care

About the role

Advocate Health is seeking a Progressive Care Unit Manager to lead our 15-bed unit. The ideal candidate will support the manager using systematic approaches to enhance nursing practice, service administration, and care delivery. They will assist with interviewing, selecting, and supervising nursing personnel, coordinating communication, and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Supports the manager utilizing systematic approaches to enhance the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, nursing service administration and delivery of care in the department
• Aids in interview, selection, and supervision of nursing personnel in the department
• Aids in coordination of communication at regular intervals throughout shifts via staff meetings/huddles to exchange information/promote dialogue with teammates
• Collaborates with manager to ensure understanding and compliance with federal and state laws, to include healthcare services and practice, while complying with all required regulations and policies
• Rounds on patients, teammates, and physicians at prescribed frequencies to gain insight into patient care, employee, and physician satisfaction and appropriateness of patient care and/or department operations
• Delegates elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers in accordance with applicable legal or policy parameters or principles
• Aids in identifying expected outcomes to provide direction for continuity of care/department operations
• Aids in evaluating progress towards goal attainment/achievement of expected outcomes and disseminates information to teammates involved with the care or the situation
• Performs nursing care, assists with treatments, therapies, procedures, and administers medications as necessary
• Captures and coordinates management of patient flow/throughput and staffing through continuous assessment of volume/acuity needs, utilizing resources available to assist in provision of appropriate staffing resources

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing
• Current RN licensure in appropriate state
• Minimum two years nursing experience preferred
• Previous management experience preferred
• BSN required
• RN candidates for external hire or internal promotion without BSN must be enrolled in a BSN program within 1 year of Hire/Transfer date and must complete program within 3 years of enrollment in the program
• BLS required per policy guidelines
• Appropriate professional certification (either clinical or leadership) is required within 1 year of eligibility for professional certification exam
• Additional education, training, certifications, or experience may be required within the department by the nurse leader

Qualifications

• Intact sense of sight, hearing, smell, and touch
• Finger dexterity
• Critical thinking and ability to concentrate

Skills

• Systematic approaches to enhance nursing practice, nursing service administration and delivery of care in the department
• Interviewing, selecting, and supervising nursing personnel
• Coordination of communication at regular intervals throughout shifts
• Ensuring compliance with federal and state laws, to include healthcare services and practice, while complying with all required regulations and policies
• Rounding on patients, teammates, and physicians
• Delegating elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers
• Identifying expected outcomes to provide direction for continuity of care/department operations
• Evaluating progress towards goal attainment/achievement of expected outcomes and disseminating information to teammates involved with the care or the situation
• Performing nursing care, assisting with treatments, therapies, procedures, and administering medications as necessary
• Capturing and coordinating management of patient flow/throughput and staffing

Benefits

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Education Assistance Program

Pay

$44.15 - $66.25 based on qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training

Schedule

3 x 12-hour shifts per week; 11a-11p. Variable Weekends