Supervisor Clinical Nurse IV - Medical Surgical Stepdown

Responsibilities

• Serves as nursing Team Leader.
• Provides education, training, and oversight to assigned nursing staff.
• 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.
• Counsels and educates patients and families.
• 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.
• Provides input about trends related to program development, space needs and fiscal realities.
• Ensures appropriate and adequate clinical staffing and skill mix to meet patient care needs on own shift and upcoming shift.
• Effectively uses clinical and financial information to assist Nurse Manager to establish and meet budgetary goals.
• 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.
• Affirms and promotes the mission, vision, values and strategic plan of UNC Health.
• Shares knowledge with colleagues through publication, presentations or other means.
• 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.