Supervisor Registered Nurse; RN - Med Surg

Tenet Desert is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Med Surg Supervisor for a nursing job in Palm Springs, California.

• Specialty:
  Med Surg
• Discipline:
  RN
• Duration:
  Ongoing
• 36 hours per week
• Shift:
  12 hours
• Employment Type:
  
  Staff

Desert Regional Medical Center is a 385-bed acute-care hospital classified as a stroke receiving center and Level I Trauma Center with an innovative, patient centered and evidence-based Rehabilitation Services Department.  Our compassionate team provides a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, including acute care rehabilitation, joint replacement & spinal surgery, neurosurgery, ICU, Telemetry, step-down care, skilled nursing, as well as outpatient therapy, hand and lymphedema clinics.

General Duties:

The Nursing Supervisor has shift responsibility for supporting the staff of all departments in daily operational and clinical functions. Has fiscal responsibility to ensure that department budget constraints pertaining to staffing guidelines are met. Coaches, mentors, and advises staff in coordinating and facilitating services which ensure quality care, cost-effectiveness, customer satisfaction, and compliance with regulatory standards. Represents hospital administration in coordinating hospital-wide issues of concern and appropriately notifying the administrator-on-call as indicated.

Maintains current knowledge of hospital-wide operations. Facilitates positive, collaborative, and cooperative relationships between hospital departments, and within the Patient Services Division. Access to all Patient Health Information for treatment.

Shift: Evenings

Hours:

Department Specific Duties:

• Obtains information and interpret information in terms of the patient’s needs.
• Demonstrates knowledge of growth and development.
• Understands the range of treatment needed as appropriate to the ages of the patients served.
• Shift Manager:
  Assures excellence in the clinical practice and procedures for hospital staff
• Serves as a coach and facilitator for interpretation clarification of nursing standards, and hospital policies and procedures for the hospital staff.
• Promptly and fully investigates and resolves complaints of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. Indicates action taken for each problem identified on the administrative report.
• Advises appropriate department directors of problems with or concerns of staff, patients, families, and physicians and real-time action which was taken to resolve these concerns.
• Makes frequent and purposeful rounds to all areas to verify that patient needs are met, and provides guidance and direction in real-time to all nursing personnel. Proactively problem solves with staff and physicians.
• Reviews and analyzes staffing requirements according to staffing guidelines and patient acuity, and assists staff in meeting staffing standards.
• Functions effectively as a traffic controller for the code Blue team.
• Functions effectively in designated role in disaster and other emergent situations.
• Responds, assumes leadership, and provides direction in rapidly changing workload and crisis situations.
• Assists admission/bed control with admissions and transfers to facilitate optimal patient placement. Takes appropriate action to ensure accurate and timely patient census counts on a daily basis. Facilitates patient throughput to meet targeted performance outcomes
• Regularly participates in patient care and other work of the departments to achieve efficiencies and effectiveness through role modeling, priority setting, and assessing requirements and staff performance.
• Assigns nurses to float to areas only where they are appropriately trained and qualified or where the nurse is paired with an experienced nurse within that department. Assures that nurses floated to an area to which they are not regularly assigned hall receive a documented orientation/competency verification to that area.
• Maintains knowledge of all nursing job performance standards and applicable competencies, and corresponding licensing regulations.
• Monitors the departments’ activities and takes appropriate action to ensure efficient and effective operation. Observes ongoing operations and analyzes…