Administrative Nursing Supervisor RN 12HR Days 75

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A Brief Overview
The Administrative Nurse Supervisor represents the Associate Director of Nursing in providing administrative
continuity by providing administrative leadership consultation and support for patient care services areas of the hospital during his/her designated shift. He/she has the authority to act on behalf of the Associate Director
of Nursing and hospital management. The Administrative Nurse Supervisor acts independently to provide crisis management interpret policy make timely decisions that directly impact patient care ensure timely and effective communication and collaboration among departments and provide operational oversight throughout the hospital. He/she provides administrative continuity to staff patients and families while acting as the onsite administrative liaison of the Associate Director of Nursing in support of the hospitals mission and goals to patients families hospital employees and the patient care services management team. In the absence of the Vice President for Patient Care Services Associate Director of Nursing or delegate the Administrative Nursing Supervisor has the authority and responsibility for administrative decisions and appropriate notification of the Administrator OnCall. Administrative Nurse Supervisor is distinguished from Patient Care Manager in that the latter has 247 responsibility for one or more assigned inpatient units while the ANS is responsible for serving as the administratoronduty for the entire hospital during a single shift and is not directly responsible for the operation of a patient care unit. Administrative Nurse Supervisor is distinguished from Administrative Nurse Manager in that the latter assists top nursing management in the achievement of departmental goals and objectives by performing coordinating and/or directing assigned hospitalwide administrative functions.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Demonstrates judgment and selfsufficiency in effective problem solving while serving as the administrative and operational resource for the hospital.
• Document pertinent information actions and decisions and communicate pertinent information (verbal and/or electronic) in a timely manner to hospital administration and department leadership.
• Facilitates onsite problemsolving and consultation through a coordinated hospital wide collaborative approach.
• Identifies appropriate internal controls for department; provides mechanisms to monitor and enforce compliance.
• Intervenes in situations involving patients visitors hospital staff and other external customers.
• Monitors and ensures that staff patients and families have resources for effective and efficient services; assists and supports the Patient Care Managers Assistant Patient Care Managers and Resource Nurses in maintaining the quality of patient care and in the administrative and clinical direction of the patient care units; provides direct patient care as needed to assist with workload and to support staff; may coordinate the bed control process making appropriate bed assignments for scheduled and unscheduled patient admissions.
• Participates in continuous quality assurance/improvement safety and risk management disaster and emergency preparedness and response readiness implementing and communicating corrective action plans and interventions; supports and coordinates implementation of hospitalwide performance and quality improvement initiatives; participates in hospital/department committees and task forces to facilitate organizational mission goals and strategic plan.
• Provide onsite management/leadership of crisis situations to prevent or minimize disruption of services; monitor emergency action procedures and coordinate activities related to patient/staff evacuation as needed; function as onsite coordinator for internal/external disasters or other major events.
• Serves as an onsite representative/liaison for clinical affairs and nursing management to staff patients and families.
• Supervises the Nursing Departments staffing process to assure compliance with hospital and departmental policies procedures and standards and provisions of the collective bargaining agreement(s).
• Support clinical operational and facility services throughout the entire Hospital during shift(s).

Education Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university

Experience Qualifications

• Three 3 years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Ability to anticipate assess plan for and manage physical psychological and social needs of the patient and family/caregiver and provide appropriate support comfort and reassurance
• Ability to apply a professional nursing code of ethics and professional guidelines to clinical practice
• Ability to be a resource for all employees assigned area of specialization
• Ability to develop evaluate implement and as necessary modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of individual patients
• Ability to integrate patient care with other members of the interdisciplinary health care team and provide direction or guidance to nonlicensed personnel in assigned area of responsibility to ensure quality care
• Ability to observe changes in the medical condition of patients and effectively communicate these changes to other nursing staff members and physicians
• Ability to provide agespecific quality patientcentered care to all patients through the nursing process and standards of nursing practice with sensitivity and respect for the diversity of human experience
• Knowledge of computer systems and software used in functional area
• Knowledge of current theories principles practices standards emerging technologies techniques and approaches in the nursing profession and the health care system and the responsibility and accountability for the outcome of practice
• Knowledge of laws rules and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit standards protocols policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care in the area of assignment
• Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights
• Knowledge of medical terminology; principles and practices of health promotion risk reduction illness and disease prevention and management; medications and common dosages their physical and physiological effects and possible adverse reactions

Licenses and Certifications

• RN Registered Nurse State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure
• ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support
• BLS Basic Life Support

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience


Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute CICARE standards for all of patients families and towards each other. CICARE is the foundation of Stanfords patientexperience and represents a framework for patientcentered interactions. Simply put we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health healing and recovery.


You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars from the patient and familys perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and nondiscrimination inall ofits policies and practices including the area of employment. Accordingly SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race color sex sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression religion age national or ethnic origin political beliefs marital status medical condition genetic information veteran status or disability or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders members of all racial and ethnic groups people with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity experience education specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.