RN Supervisor 7:00pm-7:30am (Weekend)

Open position: RN Supervisor

Schedule: 7:00pm - 7:30am (Weekend every other week)

Minimum Required Qualifications:

• Must be a graduate of an accredited LPN/RN school.
• Minimum of one-year long term care experience preferred.
• Must possess a current, unencumbered, active license to practice as a Licensed Nurse in Maryland.

Essential Duties/Major Accountabilities:

· Meets with nursing staff, as well as support personnel, in planning the shifts services, programs, and activities.

· Signs 24-hour report daily and, when acting as a free-floating supervisor, reviews and signs 24-hour reports in each area.

· Reviews nurse’s notes on both units to ensure they are informative and descriptive of the nursing care being provided and reflect the resident’s response to care.

· Communicates with discharging hospitals to ensure necessary information is obtained and received for new and readmissions.

· Provides guidance and supervision to nursing staff to assure quality resident care.

· Ensures a sufficient number of nursing assistants and nurses are available on each tour of duty to provide routine nursing care to all residents.

· Interacts with attending physicians in reviewing treatment plans, records, and signs their orders, progress notes, etc., in accordance with established policies.

· Orders prescribed medications, supplies, and equipment as necessary, and in accordance with established policies.

· Ensures that an adequate supply of floor stock medications, supplies, and equipment are on hand to meet the needs of the residents.

· Oversees narcotic records and necessary documentation as required by regulation and policy. Report any unresolved narcotic issues to on call nursing administration.

· Oversees disposal of drugs and narcotics as required, and in accordance with our established procedures.

· Reviews medications Kardex for completeness of information, accuracy in the transcription of the physician’s order, and adherence to stop order policies.

· Assists in development of work assignments, and/or assist in completing and performing such tasks.

· Makes several rounds of the Nursing units.

· Utilizes call out book per policy.

· Reviews complaints and grievances made or filed by your assigned personnel. Makes appropriate reports to the Director of Nursing (DON) as required or as may be necessary.

· Develops and maintains a good working rapport with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other departments within the facility to assure that Nursing services and activities can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.

· Creates and maintains an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.

· Meets with shift’s nursing personnel on a regularly scheduled basis to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas and/or the improvement of services.

· Reviews and evaluates assigned department’s work force and makes recommendations to the DON.

· Participates in determining assigned shifts staffing requirements, employee performance evaluations, and making recommendations to the DON concerning employee dismissals, transfer, etc.

· Monitors the nursing report upon reporting in and ending shift duty hours.

· Makes rounds with physicians as necessary.

· Implements a