Nursing Supervisor - Transitional Care

Entity:
Owensboro Health Regional Hospital | Department:
Transitional Care |

Work Hours:

7P-7A | Weekend Requirements:
As Needed | 1.0 FTE

Provides nursing leadership while ensuring implementation of clinical objectives and quality patient care. Provides direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures, and protocols of the healthcare organization.

• Provides leadership, orientation, training, coaching, and mentoring to staff.
• Ensures staff compliance with department and organization policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Responds to complaints about patient care and manages through established channels.
• Implements and monitors patient care plans.
• Monitors, records, and communicates patient condition as appropriate.
• Serves as a primary coordinator of all disciplines for well-coordinated patient care.
• Assesses and coordinates patients’ discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team.
• Assesses learning needs of patient and family and provide education based on age, culture, and willingness to learn.
• Notes and carries out physician and nursing orders.
• Performs job duties in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act.

• Performance Management - Supervises the daily activities of technical, operations, business support or team members and is accountable for performance.
• Resource Management - Sets priorities for the team to ensure task completion; coordinates worked activities to optimize productivity.
• Problem solving – identifies and solves problems guided by policies and procedures; delivers guidance with oversight from manager.
• Delegation - Effectively assigning tasks and responsibilities to team members based on their strengths. May perform duties of subordinates but at an advanced level and typically less than 80% of their time.
• Leadership Ability – Will approve timecards, participate in hiring, training new hires, provide input into corrective action & development plans, assist with process improvement conduct performance reviews, assist with budgeting and operations, etc.
• Conflict Resolution - Identifies and addresses conflicts within the team, facilitating constructive dialogue, and finding solutions to disagreements.
• Change Management - Leads and adapts to organizational changes, communicating effectively during transitions, and engages the team in the process.

• Requires critical thinking skills and decisive judgment,
• Works under minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
• Department specific competencies for positions are detailed in the unit/department scope of service.

Work Experience

• A minimum of 2 years’ relevant experience as determined by the organization

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Nursing required upon hire

Licensure/Certification/Registration

• RN
  - Licensed as a Registered Nurse. Eligible to practice nursing in the State of Kentucky required upon hire AND
• BLS
  - Certified as a Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider required within 45 days of employment in this position

• Supports Owensboro Health’s Mission, Vision, Core Commitments, and business interests. Adheres to all organizational policies and procedures. Executes all tasks and behaves in a manner consistent with a culture of compliance, safety and a high reliability organization.

• This job description describes the general nature and level of work required by the position. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of qualifications, skills, duties, responsibilities or working conditions of the job. Specific duties and responsibilities consistent with the general nature and level of work described may vary by department and additional related duties may be assigned as needed.
  
  Some duties listed may not apply to all employees with this job description.
• The job description is subject to change with or without notice, and Management reserves the right to add, modify or remove any qualification or duty. Nothing in this job description changes the existing at-will employment relationship between the…