Clinic Registered Nurse Supervisor

Summary

The Clinic Registered Nurse (RN) Supervisor position is responsible for supervision of the RN team. The Clinic RN Supervisor will provide or coordinate the provision of disease-specific educational support to patients and assist with in-service training to staff. In addition, this position is accountable for the coordination of nursing care and patient/family education via in-person and telephone-based care. The Clinic RN Supervisor supports professional nursing practice across the continuum of care to meet the needs of the patient and family utilizing internal and external resources. The Clinic RN Supervisor utilizes nursing assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation.

Essential functions

Supervisor

duties

• Supervise team of Registered Nurses in daily work activities.

• Create work schedule and manage time-off requests to ensure staffing is sufficient for clinical operations.

• Responsible for training and onboarding new nursing staff.

• Responsible for coaching, counseling, mentoring, junior staff.

• Identify problem areas and recommend improvements.

• Initiate policy changes.

• Oversee patient care on day-to-day basis.

Telephone triage

• Triaging incoming calls from clients, assessing needs, giving appropriate clinical options and facilitating appointments with providers, health care facilities, and community resources.

• Determine urgency of seeing the patient based on provided triage protocols and nursing assessment. Recognizes patients in emergent situations and refers them to the emergency room or to call emergency services.

• Provide appropriate education to patients for self-care and preventative behaviors.

• Ensure accurate notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients’ record.

• Communicate with provider teams regarding patient needs.

Patient care

• Ensure accurate and timely refill of medications based on triage or urgent needs. Process refill requests received electronically from pharmacies and submit Prior Authorization requests as needed. Route medications nursing is unable to refill per scope of practice to providers for review.

• Assist providers with assessment and treatment of patients for acute and chronic needs including education, wound care, acute and chronic disease management, etc.

• Work with an interdisciplinary care team with providers, medical assistants, community health workers, diabetic educators, etc., to coordinate and provide care of patients for acute and chronic needs.

• Care coordination through internal and external resources including home health agencies insurance companies, pharmacies, clinics, and hospitals to coordinate patient care throughout the healthcare spectrum.

• Collaborate with community health workers to manage complex patients enrolled in Healthcare Home Program.

• Review patient communications via MyChart to ensure timely responses from appropriate healthcare team members.

Operations

• Duties as needed to ensure patient needs and clinic flow needs are met in regard to patients triaged and urgent patient care needs as they present to clinic.

• Observe and identify patient needs and report and /or resolve them as appropriate.

• Collaborate with provider teams to provide effective, efficient care for patients in person and by telephone.

• Document patient interactions clearly and succinctly utilizing within the electronic health record.

• Utilizing internal and external interpreter services to communicate effectively with patients both in-person and by phone.

Patient

Education

• Meet with patients in person and/or electronically and provide guidance and education on a variety of conditions: diabetes, asthma management, pregnancy, etc.

• Work with the Certified Diabetic Educator to manage and educate patients with newly diagnosed or undermanaged diabetes.

Customer Service

• Communicate appropriately and tactfully with patients, family members, clinical staff, and providers.

• Reduce conflict and increase patient satisfaction whenever possible through timely response to calls.

Perform other tasks as assigned.

Requirements

Supervisory

Responsibilities

• Registered Nurses

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Ability to assess patients for care and treatment in person and by telephone.

• The ability to provide positive customer service skills to impact the experience of care for our patients, external customers, and internal service partners.

• Knowledge of clinical equipment and database tools used for patient care.

• Ability to follow operational policies and procedures and keep within scope of practice.

• Ability to work collaboratively on clinical issues.

• Must be able to identify problems and bring to resolution.

• Demonstrate sound judgment and decision-making abilities.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective communication.

• Ability to perform support functions as needed.

• Ability to prepare and maintain detailed records, files, reports and other correspondence.

• Ability to demonstrate initiative and work in conjunction with appropriate site management team members.

• Ability to perform the job in accordance with Riverland Community Health’s Standards of Business Conduct, which includes compliance, ethics and integrity, confidentiality, protection of assets and avoidance of conflicts of interest and inappropriate business relationships.

Education/

Experience

• RN Degree with current MN licensure is required.

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is preferred.

• Minimum of four (4) years of clinical or related nursing experience is required.

• At least two (2) years of clinical experience in the lead or supervisor role is required.

• Experience providing triage and acuity assessment is preferred.

• Ambulatory care experience (and one year of specialty care experience when applicable) is preferred.

Certificates, licenses, registrations

• Minnesota RN License is required

• BLS certification is required