Registered Nurse (RN) Supervisor
(This Position is in Durant, Oklahoma)
JOB SUMMARY
The primary goal of the Registered Nurse Supervisor is to ensure clients receive the highest quality care in accordance with Company standards. A Registered Nurse Supervisor oversees and directs nursing staff, ensuring quality patient care, developing care plans, and managing schedules, while also providing direct patient care and addressing concerns.
In Oklahoma, in-home personal care supervising nurses must be registered nurses (RNs) licensed in the state, and they must conduct on-site supervisory visits at least once every three months, or more frequently if the client's condition changes significantly.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
· Completes an initial assessment of client and family to determine home care needs, making necessary revisions per physician orders as status and needs change.
· Scope of Practice: The supervising nurse must be able to assess client needs, develop care plans, and provide guidance to personal care providers.
· Supervisory Visits: Registered nurses must make on-site supervisory visits to the client's home at least once every three months. The frequency of these visits should be increased if the client's health condition changes significantly, including surgeries or hospital stays.
· Home Care Agency: The supervising nurse will be employed by a licensed home care agency.
· Supervision and Direction: Supervise and monitor the performance of field employees, ensuring quality healthcare services. Direct, coordinate, and evaluate the work of nursing staff, including LPNs and CNAs.
· Patient Care: Provide direct nursing care to patients in their homes.
· Assess patient needs and develop plans of care in collaboration with physicians.
· Monitor and evaluate patient responses to treatment and medications. Assign nursing care to team members based on the client’s needs and capabilities
• Consistently demonstrates competency with technical nursing skills according to the legal scope of practice
• Maintains a safe and healthy working environment and uses safe work methods and procedures
• Exhibits awareness and respect for the client and family home or home-like setting as a care environment
· Builds personal rapport and establishes trust with clients, family members, and caregivers
· Promotes the growth of Right at Home by representing the organization, its mission, and its role in the community in a professional manner
· Effectively communicates and interacts with clients, caregivers, and families in a supportive manner
· Communicate with client’s physician regarding the client’s needs, changes in condition, or when obtaining physician’s orders as needed
· Provides education to clients and family members on resources, medications, self-care techniques, and/or medical conditions per physician orders
· Understands and attempts to meet the needs, wants, and expectations of clients
· Listens and responds to calls for help from other direct care staff when needed
· Hears, considers, and digests verbal and nonverbal feedback from clients, and their family members
· Observes and reports any signs or symptoms indicative of changes in the condition of the client to the family and documents such reports and observations in the client record. Updates the care plan per physician orders.
· Plays a key role in clients avoiding unnecessary visits to the ER and or hospitalizations
· Identifies discharge-planning needs as a part of the client care plan implementing them in accordance with physician orders, and sending the discharge summary to the physician
· Addresses concerns or complaints voiced by clients, families, or caregivers and notifies physician and/or nurse manager immediately
· Demonstrates the ability to interpret relevant information needed to identify each client’s nursing care requirements relative to his/her needs
· Asks questions to understand views that differ from one’s own, looking for areas of compromise
· Acts as a role model for new caregivers, accompanying them on home visits and/or acting as a mentor as assigned
· Demonstrates flexibility in adjusting assignments to meet the needs of the care team
· Maintains productivity according to Right at Home standards
· Fosters the professional development of self and other care staff
· Evaluates own performance with home care standards and performance review of a nurse supervisor
· Prepares, records, and maintains clinical and progress notes in the client care record in an accurate, timely manner and per Right at Home policy and procedure
· Meets required deadlines for documentation of certification, re-certification, supervision reports, care plan updates, addressing progress towards goals, and physician orders as needed
KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / ABILITIES / AVAILABILITY:
• Registered Nurse (RN) with current licensure to practice professional nursing in the state of Texas and Oklahoma.
• 2 years of nursing experience (home health/hospice preferred)
• Registered Nurse (RN) must possess and maintain current CPR certification
• Registered Nurse (RN) must be knowledgeable and have the ability, and the necessary skill and judgment to perform all nursing procedures under the direction of a physician as outlined in the scope of practice in the State’s Nurse Practice Act
· Meets the requirements for employees providing direct client care
· Must have a valid driver’s license and the use of an insured automobile for work or access to adequate transportation
· Available for work on weekends and holidays as required
· Registered Nurses (RN) must be able to read, write, speak and understand English as needed on the job
· Participate in in-service education programs as mandated by State law (this requirement need not be met exclusively through Right at Home sponsored in-services programs)
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:
· Competitive pay: $35.00-$40.00 per hour)
· Medical benefits, including vision and dental
· 24/7 office staff support
· Mobile clock in/out
· Work in close proximately to home
· A great working culture
· PPE (personal protective equipment) provided
· Ongoing PAID training and development through our online learning system
· On-the-job training for unique client situations
· Paid travel time in between clients and paid mileage
· Recognition, celebrations and great team interactions!