Unit Manager LPN

Job Details:

Job Location:

Dinwiddie Health & Rehab Center - NORTH DINWIDDIE, VA 23803, Position Type:
Full Time, Salary Range: $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 Salary/year, Job Shift: Day.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Unit Manager coordinates, manages, evaluates, and is accountable for 24-hour patient care, activities, nursing personnel, and unit operations on a designated unit.

• Promotes and maintains an effective working relationship with physician/physician extenders, lab, and pharmacy to ensure proper and safe care of patients.
• Promotes and maintains an effective working relationship with nursing personnel, other departments, patients, families, and visitors.
• Demonstrates and ensures customer service standards are being met when interacting with employees, patients, and the general public. Addresses, complaints and follow-up as needed.
• Exhibits a professional demeanor, serving as a role model for licensed nurses and certified nursing assistants.
• Is knowledgeable of and participates in the Center’s Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Program.
• Provides input on qualifications and staffing levels needed to meet the needs of the patients.
• Monitors employee’s adherence to organization policies and procedures (e.g., absenteeism, dress code, etc.).
• Conducts monthly unit meeting with nursing personnel and communicates information and changes in Center policy and procedures when indicated. Provides in-service training as needed.
• Actively supports all Service Excellence Initiatives.

• Checks schedule each day to ensure adequate staffing. Assigns and delegates nursing personnel responsibilities for licensed and non-licensed nursing personnel.
• Evaluates and assesses patients on a regular basis. Ensures significant changes of the patient’s condition are reported to the physician/physician extender and legal representative.
• Monitors to ensure that nursing documentation is appropriate, concise, and timely.
• Keeps the Director of Nursing, or designee informed of the status of patients and other related matters.
• Keeps the Director of Nursing, or designee informed of personnel concerns.
• Makes rounds with physicians/physician extenders as indicated to provide pertinent information regarding the patients care and condition and follows through with the physician/physician orders.
• Reviews physician/physician extender’s orders, lab reports, and pharmacy contacts regarding any changes in medication.
• Communicates with family members regarding patients care and/or condition.
• Completes incident/accident reports, investigates, and conducts appropriate follow through regarding allegations of abuse or neglect, family/patient concerns and reported incidents/accidents involving nursing personnel.
  • a. Reports allegations of abuse/neglect, incidents/accidents to the Director of Nursing or designee.
  • b. Ensures notification regarding allegations of abuse/neglect, and other instances of incidents/accidents to the physician/physician extender and the patient’s legal representative.
• Ensures medications are administered according to physician/physician extender orders and consistent with current standards of practice.
• Assists licensed nurses with blood draws, initiating IV therapy and performing other standard nursing procedures or treatments when necessary.
• Reviews medication records for completeness, accuracy in the transcription of physician/physician extender orders and reviews adherence to stop-orders.
• Updates the daily patient Roster/Matrix.
• Participates in patient care conferences.
• Participates in center committees as assigned.
• Evaluates patients’ status and unit activities at the beginning of the shift and ensures appropriate level of nursing personnel to care for patients.
• Performs frequent…