Acts at the on-site administrative designee for an entire facility for off-shifts and weekends. Manages all the patient care departments, ensuring appropriate quality of care, and compliance with regulations.
Essential Functions:
- For an entire facility, manages the off-hours and weekend patient care and nursing services activities.
- Ensures staff provides the highest quality of care and is in compliance with the Nurse Practice Act, JCAHO, 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.
- Maintains and monitors established policies, procedures, standards, and practices for nursing services and patient care.
- Supervises staff, assesses their needs, and identifies educational opportunities.
- Collaborates with 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.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Previous supervisory experience required (usually one (1) year).
- Previous acute care hospital experience required (usually four (4) years).
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Current California RN license required.
- AHA BLS certification required.
- Demonstrated interpersonal, written and oral communication skills; knowledge of Nurse Practice Act, JCAHO, and other local, state, and federal regulations.
Preferred Qualifications:
- BSN
- MSN or Masters in related healthcare field
- NRP/ACLS
- Basic PC Skills: Word, Excel, Powerpoint
Notes:
- Flex hours to accomodate 24 hour nursing shifts.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.