Job Summary: The Supervising Nurse is a registered professional nurse who provides oversight of all patient/client care services and personnel. Ensures quality of patient/client care in the home. Coordinates care with the interdisciplinary team, patient/client, family, and referring agency.
Job Qualifications:
Education: Graduate from an accredited diploma, associate, or baccalaureate nursing program.
Licensure: Active state license as a registered nurse, or a multi-state license issued by a Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) member state. Current driver’s license.
Experience: Minimum one year of experience as a registered nurse in a clinical care pediatric setting, in home health care preferred.
Skills: Nursing skills as defined as generally accepted standards of practice. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively. Demonstrates proven decision making skills. If required to make visits, proof of current CPR certification.
Transportation: Reliable transportation and valid auto liability insurance.
Environmental and Working Conditions: Office: Performs duties in an office environment. If required to make patient/client visits, may work in patients’/clients’ homes in various conditions; possible exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and infectious diseases; ability to work a flexible schedule; ability to travel locally; some exposure to unpleasant weather; PRN emergency calls.
Physical and Mental Effort: Prolonged sitting required, with the ability to operate office equipment which may include heavy lifting, bending, and standing. Requires the ability to handle stressful situations in a calm and courteous manner at all times. If required to make patient/client visits, prolonged standing and walking required, with ability to lift up to fifty pounds and move patients/clients. Requires working under some stressful conditions to meet deadlines and patient/client needs, and to make quick decisions and resource acquisition.