+Registered Nurse Shift Manager (RN) - Recovery

Job Type: Full Time

Job Shift: Rotate

Holiday Rotation:

Department: Recovery

Reporting to the Director of Patient Care Services/Designee, the Shift Manager is responsible for planning, directing, coordinating and providing individualized high quality care using the components of the nursing process.

Position Accountabilities
1.

Determines staffing requirements to assure safe and competent patient care.

Considers patient acuity, age specific needs of patients, staff skill mix, and individual patient's plan of care when making assignments.

Demonstrates flexibility in response to unexpected changes in volume, emergencies, staffing, or schedule changes.
2.

Utilizes observation techniques, chart review, and patient interviews to evaluate staff nurse performance and quality of patient care delivered.
3.

Monitors the safety of the work environment.

Proactively seeks to correct or prevent unsafe conditions.
4.

Develops unit goals and plans for evaluating and achieving those initiatives.
5.

Integrates education programs with appropriate clinical experiences to promote professional growth of staff.
6.

Assists Director with schedules, time and attendance, quality improvement projects, reports, documents, and files.
7.

Demonstrates basic understanding of budget requirements.

Maintains supplies and productivity within guidelines.

Develops strategies to effectively utilize down time on designated shift.
8.

Seeks and accepts responsibility for committee participation, special projects, and teaching presentations.
9.

Initiates a multidisciplinary, goal oriented care plan for each patient in collaboration with members of the health care team and provides care based on that plan.
10.

Identifies patients at risk for abuse as well as associated signs and symptoms.

States mandatory reporting requirements for healthcare professionals.
11.

Ensures patient safety by assessing and proactively implementing safety measures with specific consideration of patient's functional and developmental age.
12.

Provides appropriate nursing interventions.

Competent in all routine nursing skills and identified unit-specific skills.
13.

Demonstrates the ability to provide appropriate interventions in-patient care emergencies and follows established emergency procedures.

Takes appropriate action in emergency situations and develops others' ability to do so.

Assists staff in prioritizing, as needed.
14.

Determines the presence and type of Advance Directive, as appropriate.

Contacts appropriate resources to assist the patient and family as needed.
15.

Additional responsibilities are outlined on the Clinical Ladder and are to be documented on the Annual Evaluation Checklist.
16.

Performs physical and psychosocial assessment of all age groups of patients that demonstrates knowledge and consideration of age specific and cultural differences.

Modifies nursing care to meet the age specific requirements of the newborn (0 to 30 days), pediatric (1 to 12 years), adolescent (13 to 17 years)...