Supervising Registered Nurse

Job Responsibilities

Supervises, plans, organizes, and reviews the operations, program, and personnel of a medical care unit staffed by registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, and other support staff. Duties include supervising, training employees, recommending promotions and personnel actions, developing policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, and protocols, communicating with patients and staff, planning and conducting in-service education and training, and maintaining patient confidentiality.

• Basic principles and practices of supervision and personnel management
• Professional registered nursing principles, procedures, and techniques
• State of California laws and regulations on nursing practices
• Normal course of illnesses and disabilities and their treatment
• Family planning methods
• Pre‑natal, pregnancy, and post‑natal medical care, infant and child care, growth, and development, including common illnesses
• Substance abuse symptoms and medical intervention techniques
• Mental illness symptoms and intervention techniques
• Symptoms, prevention, reporting requirements, and treatment of child and adult abuse and neglect
• Techniques of planning and conducting classes and training sessions on a variety of health subjects
• Individual and group counseling techniques
• Common public and community health care resources
• Social and economic factors influencing individual and community health
• Differing cultural, religious, and social attitudes about hygiene, family planning, child care, and health treatment
• Proper handling and administering of biologicals
• Detection and treatment of common communicable diseases, environmentally based illnesses, sexually transmitted diseases, and food‑ and water‑borne illnesses
• Standard medical record‑keeping
• Common drugs and medications used for birth control, communicable diseases, immunizations, allergies, cardio‑vascular conditions, and substance overdoses, including their contra‑indications and normal and abnormal results

• Supervise and train employees
• Effectively recommend employee selections, promotions, status changes, and other personnel actions
• Plan, organize, and control work of staff
• Develop and implement policies and procedures for the work unit in accordance with department goals, policies, and procedures
• Learn, comply with, and ensure staff compliance with laws, rules, regulations, protocols, and procedures, including security requirements, applicable to the work unit
• Effectively communicate with and gain the cooperation of patients of various social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds
• Work cooperatively with other health and social service providers, and staff of other work units and departments
• Effectively plan, conduct, and participate in in‑service education and training programs
• Maintain patient confidentiality

Minimum qualifications include:

• Possession of a current valid Registered Nurse license issued by the State of California.
• One year of experience in Sacramento County service as a registered nurse or any class requiring registered nurse licensure, or two years of experience as a registered nurse.
• Knowledge and competency in the areas listed under “Knowledge of” and “Ability to”.

Special Requirements:
Employees must be willing to work evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays; undergo confidential criminal history checks and fingerprinting; maintain a valid CPR certificate and, if required, a valid hearing testing certificate, emergency first aid certificate, and/or other specialty training appropriate to registered nurses.

Six (6) months.

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