Supervisor Residential Nursing Towson
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Job Location:
Towson, MD - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
22 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Responsibilities:
- Works with other disciplines to maintain effective communication between nursing staff residents families and other members of the treatment team.
- Provides a work environment conducive to the delivery of optimal health care.
- Communicates and administers the residential quality assurance programs and ensures residential program compliance with system-wide risk management and infection control programs.
- Collaborates with the Program Manager in the selection of nursing staff.
- Orients new nurses to the unit; follows up on progress and training needs.
Requirements:
- Must possess current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Maryland at the time of appointment and continuously during tenure in position.
- Work requires written and oral communication skills and comprehensive knowledge of standards of nursing practice acquired through completion of a bachelors degree from an accredited nursing program or through completion of a diploma/AA nursing program plus an additional one to two years experience in addition to the experience requirement listed below.
Work requires clinical and supervisory skills knowledge of psychiatric nursing and nursing competency with the adult and adolescent population acquired through two to three years of related experience.
Work requires interpersonal skills sufficient to interact effectively with adults and adolescent psychiatrically ill students based on an understanding of their age-specific needs in order to gain their cooperation to interact effectively with families/guardians school systems treatment teams and a variety of internal and external contacts (51 80% of work time).
- Work requires analytical and problem-solving abilities necessary to plan evaluate and administer nursing services program resources to formulate special treatment care plans for identified residents and to provide appropriate nursing care.
- Work very frequently (51-80% of work time) requires adaption to multiple demands for the individuals time and energy and produces a high level of stress and mental fatigue.
Working Conditions:
- Works in a patient care environment where there are exposures to communicable diseases (26-50% of work time).
- Work requires occasional exposure to the risk of physical injury by assaultive residents/ patients (less than 5% of work time).
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Crisis Management
- Nurse Management
- Nursing Home Experience
- Acute Care
- Assisted Living
- Home Care
- Nursing
- Alzheimers Care
- Critical Care Experience
- Program Development
- Medication Administration
- Supervising Experience
About Company
Sheppard Pratt offers inpatient, outpatient, home-based, school, and residential programs. Our programs and mental health services make healing a reality.
