Supervisor Clinical Nurse IV - Acute Care Orthopaedics

About the role

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina. The Acute Care Orthopaedics unit at UNC Rex Hospital is a 30-bed medical-surgical unit that provides exceptional post-surgical care to patients recovering from various orthopedic procedures.

Responsibilities

• Educates, trains, and oversees assigned nursing staff.
• Coordinates, designs, and implements educational programs to meet identified learning needs of staff, patients, and families.
• Evaluates patient progress and revises plan accordingly.
• Ensures appropriate care and services are available to patients, clients, and families for assigned shift.
• Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration in patient/client care planning to achieve desired patient outcomes.
• Coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members.
• Assesses and anticipates patient and family learning needs and organizes resources to ensure that they are met.
• Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
• Creates and promotes an environment conducive to recruiting and retaining staff.
• Provides feedback to Manager/Supervisor and Director to assist in hiring, promoting, transferring, and terminating staff.
• Models and promotes behaviors that effectively give continual feedback to staff and colleagues.
• Integrates best practice standards regarding retention of staff in all aspects of practice.
• Establishes and promotes standards of excellence for areas of responsibility and ensures consistent implementation by staff.
• Collaborates with Nurse Manager to implement strategies to increase revenue and cost-effectively manage personnel, supply, and equipment resources.
• Evaluates the impact of strategic fiscal changes on quality outcomes.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates new and creative approaches to meeting goals.
• Leads, participates, and promotes performance improvement initiatives that focus on identified patient safety or quality of care opportunities.

Requirements

• Graduate of Accredited Nursing Program.
• Bachelor's degree (BSN) required.
• Must have NC RN Licensure and BCLS.
• Professional certification relevant to the practice area and on the ANCC Magnet approved list within the probationary period of employment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of one year experience working as a licensed RN.
• Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret clinical information and technical procedures. Ability to document clinical information. Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions from patients, physicians, family members, and other Rex staff. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions.

Other Information

Education Requirements: Graduate of Accredited Nursing Program. Bachelor's degree (BSN) required.

Licensure/Certification Requirements: Must have NC RN Licensure and BCLS. Professional certification relevant to the practice area and on the ANCC Magnet approved list within the probationary period of employment.

Professional Experience Requirements: Minimum of one year experience working as a licensed RN.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements: Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret clinical information and technical procedures. Ability to document clinical information. Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions from patients, physicians, family members, and other Rex staff. Mathematical Skills: Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations. Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions.