Lead Clinical Nurse – Hospice Homes – Nights – Full-time

Lead Clinical Nurse – Hospice Homes – Nights – Full-time

Requirements

• 2 Years recent, pertinent, clinical experience.
• California Registered Nurse (RN) – CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) – American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• Driver’s License – CA Department of Motor Vehicles -REQUIRED
• ServSafe Food Handler Certified – National Restaurant Association -REQUIRED

Responsibilities

• Achieve patient outcomes
• Demonstrates clinical competence in area of practice
• Participates in quality improvement unit activities based on unit focus/priorities.
• Performs one or more of the following: Assists with identifying clinical learning needs of staff and assures learning achieved.
• Implements systems to inform/monitor staff compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.
• Implements action plan to improve clinical care of patients.
• Develops new area of expertise relevant to clinical area.
• Achieves operational outcomes
• Collaborates with other disciplines/departments to resolve daily operational issues when supervising unit.
• Performs one or more of the following: Facilitates staff in prioritizing and problem solving daily operational issues.
• Collaborates with Physicians to address operational issues.
• Demonstrates resolution of operational issue with targeted outcomes as negotiated with manager or director.
• Collaborates with other disciplines/departments to resolve identifies issues with demonstrated improvement in operational flow.
• Human resource management
• All 90 day and annual performance reviews are completed within 30 days of due date.
• Assures employee files are current and complete including annual PPD, CPR, RN licensure, safety test, etc.
• Performs one or more of the following: Orients/mentors staff into new roles resulting in achieved competencies within identified timelines.
• Develops staff’s leadership skills, facilitating learning and growth.
• Assists staff to resolve identified learning/performance issues.
• Develops new area of expertise relevant to human resource management.
• Oversee productivity
• Achieves productivity score between 98-100%
• Monitors flexing, on-call, skill mix, use of overtime, per diem and registry.
• Performs one or more of the following: Identifies and/or participates in implementation of cost reducing or revenue enhancing ideas.
• Contributes to utilization of supplies in a cost-effective manner that supports delivery of care within budgeted supply expense per unit of service.
• Contributes to meeting budgeted salary expense per unit of service.
• Develops new area of expertise relevant to resource management.
• Safety
• Facilitates Workman’s Compensation reporting and documentation per requirements.
• Demonstrates ability to handle situations not covered by written or verbal instructions that maintain staff/patient safety.
• Conveys importance and rational of policies & procedures and standards of care to staff and customers.
• Performs one or more of the following: Demonstrates resolution of safety issue as negotiated with manager or director.
• Trends staff safety learning needs and assures learning achieved.
• Develops new area of expertise relevant to delivery of safe patient care.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
• Leadership experience.
• HPCC Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN) – Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center -PREFERRED