What are the responsibilities and job description for the RN Supervisor Endoscopy Unit position at St. Joseph's Health?
Employment Type
Full time
Shift
Description:
The Registered Nurse Supervisor is a dynamic leadership role that contributes to the operational management of the unit to promote and support an environment of excellent patient care. An individual in this role ensures compliance with all healthcare standards and requirements established by various licensing, regulatory, and accreditation bodies. An RN Supervisor maintains a working knowledge of policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior. An RN Supervisor provides unit based leadership while engaging staff and promoting evidenced based practice that supports and leads unit and/or organizational changes. An RN Supervisor helps to identify problems, offers solutions, and participates in their resolution. A candidate for this role should be comfortable providing patient care, managing staff, making decisions independently, and assuming managerial duties as necessary.
Organization Highlights
Rooted in our Mission and Core Values, we honor the dignity of every person and recognize the unique perspectives, experiences, and talents each colleague brings. By finding common ground and embracing our differences, we grow stronger together and deliver more compassionate, person-centered care. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
Full time
Shift
Description:
The Registered Nurse Supervisor is a dynamic leadership role that contributes to the operational management of the unit to promote and support an environment of excellent patient care. An individual in this role ensures compliance with all healthcare standards and requirements established by various licensing, regulatory, and accreditation bodies. An RN Supervisor maintains a working knowledge of policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior. An RN Supervisor provides unit based leadership while engaging staff and promoting evidenced based practice that supports and leads unit and/or organizational changes. An RN Supervisor helps to identify problems, offers solutions, and participates in their resolution. A candidate for this role should be comfortable providing patient care, managing staff, making decisions independently, and assuming managerial duties as necessary.
Organization Highlights
- Shared Governance: Unit practice counsel and open door guiding principle gives all our nurses a voice.
- Advancement: Strong orientation, leadership development programs and generous tuition allowance.
- Work/Life: Self-scheduling options to balance your work/life and school calendars.
- Mentor and precept students and new colleagues.
- Develop, coordinate, and implement staffing plan to ensure adequate care coverage.
- Evaluate retrospective, current and prospective unit productivity and adjust to reach targeted levels.
- Coordinate patient admissions, discharges and transfers to achieve most appropriate bed utilization in collaboration with Administrative Coordinator Office.
- Coordinate response to urgent/emergent situations as evidenced by reallocation of personnel and resources.
- Participate in patient care activities as determined by unit needs.
- Implement appropriate service recovery strategies.
- Coach, mentor and support staff.
- Collaborate with nursing education to facilitate orientation initiatives and provide preceptor education and support.
- Participate in hiring, evaluating, initiating corrective action and terminating employees as needed.
- Educate team members in theoretical and clinical competencies associated with care delivery typical of unit.
- Maintain the prescribed workload including advisement and committee responsibilities.
- Ensure quality nursing care is rendered to all patients in accordance with the New York Nurse Practice Act, National Standards of Practice, and Nursing and Clinical Service standards of care and practice.
- Collaborate with unit leadership to provide formal feedback through performance development process.
- Collaborate with unit leadership to achieve unit and organizational quality improvement and outcome based initiatives.
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing and current licensure in the State of New York.
- Baccalaureate Degree in the Science of Nursing (BSN) from an accredited school of nursing required.
- Two years progressive experience in acute/critical care and/or leadership preferred. Experience in related field will be considered based on specific department needs and/or requirements. Certification/licensure as required by regulatory agency. Ideally the candidate will have strong clinical skills, leadership qualities and must be actively working toward an advanced degree.
- Specialty credentialing & educational degree according to clinical nursing practice specialty area preferred.
- Participates in continuing education and updates and maintains knowledge and skills related to specific areas of expertise.
- Clinical ladder advancement with experience, and national certification opportunities.
- Career advancement to senior leadership roles such as Manager, Director or Administrative roles.
- We, St Joseph's Health and Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
- To be world-renowned for passionate patient care and outstanding clinical outcomes.
- In the spirit of good Stewardship, we heal by practicing Justice in fostering right relationships to promote common good, Reverence in honoring the dignity of every person, Excellence in expecting the best of ourselves and others; Integrity in being faithful to who we say we are.
- Clinical setting. Exposure Class I
- Medium work: must be able to lift 25 pounds frequently; occasionally lifting maximum of 50 pounds. Will require ability to stand, walk, sit, bend, twist, squat and reach.
- All services, medical staff, patients, visitors, and various regulatory and professional agencies.
- Unit Manager and Director.
Rooted in our Mission and Core Values, we honor the dignity of every person and recognize the unique perspectives, experiences, and talents each colleague brings. By finding common ground and embracing our differences, we grow stronger together and deliver more compassionate, person-centered care. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.