Supervisor Nursing - Specialty Hospital LTACH

RN - Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital

The Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital has been helping patients recover from complex medical conditions and injuries since 2000. The first long-term acute-care hospital (LTACH) in the region, we help patients who are too medically fragile to transfer to a skilled nursing facility, acute rehabilitation hospital or their home after a hospital stay. In addition to general rehabilitation, our team is renowned for their expertise in ventilator weaning and respiratory care.

Job Summary

Plan, direct, or coordinate the daily patient/resident care activities in the clinical environment. The nurse supervisor is accountable for the delivery of nursing and patient/resident care services. Acts as the highest-ranking on-site leader in the absence of other administrative/clinical leader for the service/location. The position reports to the director of nursing of the site. The nurse supervisor will foster the mission and core values of the GSRN in their daily practice.

Essential Functions

• Supervisor skills
• Oversees site operations; strives to achieve organizational and departmental goals and objectives in the area of responsibility.
• Acts as a clinical and administrative resource while on duty.
• Participates in leading nursing staff including participation in hiring, participates in transitioning and encouraging professional development of each member within their scope of practice.
• Supports and assists in scheduling the nursing staffing requirements based upon acuity, specialty, volumes including budgeted NHPPD.
• Facilitates staff growth and development.
• Communicates through effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Assists in implementing plans and strategies to maximize delivery of safe patient/resident care.
• Assists in leading actions to achieve departmental goals and objectives in area of responsibility.
• Routinely communicates GSRN, site specific information to associates.
• Facilitates patient/resident care
• Acts as a clinical resource to multidisciplinary team.
• Participates in development and implementation of nursing policies and procedures utilizing evidence-based practice to standardize care.
• Contributes towards achieving departmental strategic goals
• Gathers pertinent business, financial, service, and operations information in coordination with other nursing leaders.
• Assists with identifying trends.
• Collaborate with nursing leadership to review and implement best practices for the unit, and evaluate outcomes.
• Contributes and works towards financial objectives
• Utilizes NHPPD and acuity as a guide to assign staff to meet the needs of patients/residents.
• Assist staff in obtaining supplies, equipment, medication, and transport services for patients/residents as needed to assist in controlling expenses.
• Identifying and providing input to nursing leaders on work methods that reduce the cost and/or time required to deliver patient/resident care.
• Exercises fiscal responsibility for expenditures and understands trends and variances in collaboration with nurse managers.
• Delivers quality care
• Ensures competency-based care is provided through ongoing supervision and evaluation of staff.
• Recognizes and responds to actual or potential events to ensure patient/resident safety.
• Recommends systems improvements.
• Demonstrates evidence-based decision making when addressing practice changes.
• Assisting the nurse managers and directors in effective communication among team members.
• Providing handoff clinical report at the end of each shift.
• Analyzes, reviews and provides feedback for event reporting during the shift.
• Assists with orienting and evaluating the competency of agency, float, and/or per diem associates or delegating the responsibility to an appropriate individual.
• Develops and enhances professional knowledge and skills
• Demonstrates a willingness to learn, grow and seek new and innovative opportunities.
• Coordinates and/or provides learning experiences for professional development of staff.
• Reviews professional publications.
• Participates in professional societies/organizations.
• Promotes healthy working environment by
• Promotes patient/resident safety through a just culture in the workplace.
• Complies with policies and procedures, rules and regulations governing environment of care and patient safety.
• Applying quality improvement techniques to improve deficiencies.
• Reviewing and revising policies, procedures and standards of care including appropriate references.
• Demonstrating knowledge of responsibilities in an emergency situation and conducting drills (code blue, fire, internal disaster, bomb threat, priority alert).
• Contributes to team effort by
• Developing channels of communication which will enhance working relations and service delivery between nursing shifts, units and hospitals.
• Establishing cooperative, collaborative relationships among disciplines and departments.
• Complies with federal, state, and local requirements
• Ensures that all regulations, and standards are followed at the federal, state and local levels.
• Maintaining compliance with professional, regulatory and governmental standards of care.
• Maintains HIPAA compliance.
• Demonstrates professional development by
• Remaining current in nursing and management knowledge and skills. Develops leadership skills in areas of responsibility.

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Education
• Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) preferred
• Work experience
• 2-4 years nursing experience required. Experience from related area of care preferred (long term care, rehabilitation, etc.)
• 1-2 years prior supervisory experience preferred
• Licenses/certifications
• Must have an active registered nurse (RN) license in PA.
• Basic life support/CPR, as a healthcare provider, per the American Heart Association required
• For specialty (LTACH) and rehabilitation supervisors - must obtain ACLS within six (6) months of employment and then maintain certification throughout employment.
• For pediatrics (PEDS) - PALS certification preferred (must be acquired within first 6 months of employment).
• Certification in rehabilitation nursing preferred (must be acquired within 2-3 years of hire into supervisor role for rehabilitation hospital).
• For specialty - certification in progressive care certified nurse (PCCN) preferred (must be acquired within 2 years of employment, 1750 hours in direct care of acutely/critically ill patients, with 875 of those hours accrued in the most recent year preceding application).

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation