RN at Westchester Medical Center – Margaretville, New York

The RN Supervisor is responsible to maintain the nursing philosophy, objectives, and standards of quality nursing care; and ensure compliance with standards, codes, rules and regulations, and the policies set-forth by Mountainside.

The following is a summary of the essential functions of this job. The employee may perform other duties, both major and minor, that are not mentioned below; and specific functions may change from time to time.

1. Administrative functions:
   • Notifies the Director of Nursing and Administrator on call as required.
   • Participates actively with IDT and follows-through on actions determined by the Team.
   • Is responsible for every resident in the facility.
   • Serves as a resident advocate and ensures resident rights are maintained.
   • Supports the medical staff.
   • Works collaboratively with all departments at Mountainside and MMH.
   • Works with staff in the planning of the unit’s services, programs, and activities.
   • Ensures consistency between both floors in nursing care.
   • Ensure staff comply with policies and standards of care.
   • Ensures completeness of Accident and Incident reports.
   • Promotes mission and values of Mountainside.
   • Serves as a leader and resource for nursing staff.
   • Participates in investigations, as assigned.
   • Ensures safe quality care is provided to the residents daily, and essential information is communicated to provide appropriate continuity of care from admission to discharge.
   • Acts as a liaison with residents, families, and other departments to adequately plan for and provide resident care.
   • Guides LPN Nurse Managers, LPNs, and CNAs responsibilities.
   • Ensures accurate, appropriate, and complete documentation by all nursing staff.
2. Care Plan, Kardex, MDS, and Assessment
   • Ensures accuracy of each.
   • Completes timely, as assigned.
   • Effectively communicates the plan of care.
   • Ensures that resident care plan is followed.
3. Communication:
   • Ensures appropriate and ongoing communication with the resident, family, staff, MD, IDT, etc.
   • Uses communication to enhance quality of resident care and staff working environment.
4. Personnel/Staff Development
   • Assists with employee evaluations, employee praise, and discipline as necessary.
   • Actively participates with staff education.
   • Promotes an environment of learning.
   • Ensures staff attends mandatory in-services and meets minimum continuing education requirements.
   • Conducts routine staff audits to ensure care is being delivered per care plan and medical staff orders.
   • Ensures work consistency among staff.
   • Promotes a positive, friendly work environment.
5. Equipment and Supplies:
   • Ensures appropriate are available and monitors that supplies are utilized appropriately to avoid waste.
   • Is cost-effective.
6. Policy and Procedure Manuals
   • Ensures staff awareness of manuals, including other departments (e.g. MSDS, emergency protocols).
   • Uses manuals and assists other staff on using policies as necessary.
7. Quality Assurance:
   • Constantly strives to enhance the resident and staff experience.
   • Reports and completes necessary paperwork for each resident incident/accident/change in condition.
8. Safety/Infection Control:
   • Ensures staff compliance with standards and regulations.
   • Reports potential outbreaks and takes appropriate measures to control/eliminate infection control exposures.
9. Staffing Coverage
   • Required to ensure appropriate coverage for the nursing department 24/7, including weekends, holidays, and off-shifts.
   • Is RN on-call when there is not an RN in-house.
   • Works beyond normal working hours, or in other positions temporarily when necessary (e.g. administers medications).
   • Is subject to callback during emergency conditions.
   • Takes RN on-call as needed.
10. Other specific requirements:
    • Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition, and be enthusiastic.
    • Must work harmoniously with others.
    • Seek out new methods and principles to incorporate into the nursing practice.
    • Creates and maintains an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment.
    • Able to make independent decisions.
    • Able to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies and procedures necessary to provide quality care.
    • Promote teamwork and collaboration among Mountainside staff members.
11. Ongoing education
    • Must continually strive to enhance knowledge, and ensure evidenced-based nursing is being practiced.
    • Encouraged to attend an out-of-facility continuing education seminars.
12. Other job duties as assigned.

Education:

• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing as an RN

Experience:

• 2 years clinical experience

Training/License:

• NYS RN License

Other:

• BLS, basic computer skills