Acts as the on-site administrative designee for the entire facility for off-shifts and weekends. Manages all the patient care departments, ensuring appropriate quality of care and compliance w/ regulations.
Essential Functions:
- Manages the off-hours and weekend patient care activities.
- Ensures staffs provide the highest quality of care and are in compliance w/ the Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements.
- Coordinates and monitors staffing for all shifts and maintains appropriate staffing levels and skill mix.
- Participates in developing, reviewing, and updating departmental policies and procedures.
- Identifies and implements best practices to provide improved quality care and services.
- Assess and monitors clinical nursing practice for optimal patient care.
- Designs and evaluates processes to improve systems and patient care results across the continuum.
- Follows-up on all clinical issues. Monitors quality of care delivered, ensuring it meets age-related and developmental needs of patients.
- Supervises staff, assesses their needs and identifies educational opportunities.
- Collaborates w/ all departments throughout the medical center.
- Acts as patient advocate.
- Assists in developing, monitoring and maintaining the budget. Identifies and recommends opportunities to reduce costs.
- Manages and resolves human resource, employee and department safety, and risk management issues.
Secondary Functions:
- Designs training program for members on home peritoneal dialysis.
- Collaborates with leadership to improve quality and efficiency throughout the continuum of clinical care.
- Responds quickly to changes in clinical practice and provides training as required.
- Conducts research into professional and community practices, standards, technology, and clinical innovations for improved service with care area.
- Maintains records and statistics for hemodialysis and home peritoneal dialysis patients.
- Identifies service issues and implements systems changes, resulting in improved education and treatment of members.
- Makes recommendation for cost/quality strategies; works within budget.
- Provides consultation to physicians and other care team providers regarding hemodialysis and patient education programs.
- Performs hemodialysis for members as needed basis.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Previous supervisory experience required, usually one (1) year.
- Previous acute care hospital experience required, usually (4) years.
- BSN or BA in health care related field preferred.
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Current California RN license required.
- Current BLS certification required.
- ACLS certification required.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal written and communication skills. Knowledge of Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, and other local, state, and federal regulations.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.