Supervisor of Nurses - CHS

Supervisor of Nurses - CHS

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NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the nation. We are a network of 11 hospitals, trauma centers, neighborhood health centers, nursing homes, post‑acute care centers, and correctional health services. We are a home care agency and a health plan, Metro Plus. Our health system provides essential services to 1.4 million New Yorkers every year in more than 70 locations across the city’s five boroughs.

Our diverse workforce of more than 42,000 employees is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers.

NYC Health + Hospitals/Correctional Health Services is one of the nation’s leading correctional health care systems in quality of and innovations to care, and access from pre‑arraignment through compassionate release. In‑jail services include medical, nursing, mental health, substance use treatment, social work, dental and vision care, discharge planning, and reentry support. In addition to providing direct patient care in the jails, CHS leverages the resources of the nation’s largest municipal health care system to help discharged patients successfully return to their communities.

CHS is also a pivotal partner in New York City’s criminal justice reform efforts.

On Site Director of Nursing;
Deputy Director of Nursing

• Provides direct patient care as necessary. Using the problem-oriented progress notes, written to match each problem documented on the Problem List and organized using the SOAP format.
• Coordinates the nursing care provided for patients within a given unit by:
• Assigning appropriate nursing staff for patient care activities such as admissions, sick call, treatments, medications, punitive segregation rounds, follow-up, etc. Problems in staffing must be communicated to the On‑Site Director of Nursing.
• Utilize therapeutic communication skills and effective interviewing techniques to elicit pertinent historical information and to make appropriate referrals as required. Screen patients with mental health problems in an immediate manner and makes appropriate referral as required.
• Making rounds to patient care areas for the purposes of assessing, planning, implementing, documenting, and evaluating unit nursing care delivery. Assist OS‑DON in staffing needs. Provides guidance and assistance to nursing personnel in the delivery of patient care.
• Assuring continuity of care on other shifts through written and/or verbal communication. Communicates special care needs of particular patients to the psychiatrist, On‑Site Director of Nursing or the On‑Island Administrator.
• Collaborates with the OS‑DON in the orientation of new staff on the unit. Evaluates the new nurse on an ongoing basis; writes a formal evaluation at the end of the probation period, and makes recommendations to the OS‑DON.
• Evaluates and provides feedback to staff on an ongoing basis and in an annual formal evaluation conference. Collaborates with the OS‑DON and/or Deputy Director of Nursing. Provides appropriate documentation and records of nursing personnel activities.

• Identifies staff development needs and plans strategies to meet the needs in collaboration with available nursing resources.
• Conducts meetings with his/her staff, in collaboration with the On‑Site Director of Nurses, to share information, discuss problems and potential solutions, and to promote cooperative professional relationships among the staff.
• Monitors the quality of patient care through quality assessment - improvements mechanisms.
• Communicates, documents and collaborates on an ongoing basis, with the On‑Site Director of Nursing concerning patient care and unit administration.

• Coordinates the intra‑disciplinary team providing comprehensive patient care.
• Familiarizes self with and participates in defining, maintaining and Interpreting standards of nursing practice through the application of nursing policies and procedures according to the Prison Health Services, Inc. Policy and Procedure Manual and specific policies of the…