What are the responsibilities and job description for the Unit Manager (RN) position at Green Hill Senior Living and Rehabilitation?
OVERVIEW:
Unit Managers are primarily responsible for overseeing day to day patient care, supervising,
directing and developing nurse staff, and reporting to the Director of Nursing to ensure quality
patient care within a long-term care center, skilled nursing facility or assisted living community.
Unit Managers are liaisons between residents and their families. Unit Managers are tasked with
ensuring their unit complies with federal and state regulatory standards and follows company
policies and procedures.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and
- Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.
- Maintains nursing operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational,
- Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's
nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations; measuring health
outcomes against standards; making or recommending adjustments.
- Maintains nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training nurses and auxiliary staff.
- Completes patient care requirements by scheduling and assigning nursing and staff; following up
- Maintains nursing staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees;
- Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual
- Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching and counseling
self-care skills.
- Provides information to patients and health care team by answering questions and requests.
- Resolves patient needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by designing and implementing procedures,
- Protects patients and employees by developing and interpreting infection-control policies and
regulations.
- Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by monitoring confidential information
- Maintains documentation of patient care services by auditing patient and department records.
- Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing
- Ensures operation of medical and administrative equipment by verifying emergency equipment
instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment
inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
- Maintains nursing supplies inventory by studying usage reports; identifying trends; anticipating
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing
- Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information;
- Assist in the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) process
QUALIFICATIONS:
EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE:
- Must hold valid RN License instate working
- LTC Experience Preferred
- Basic computer skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Minimum 5 years nursing experience in a hospital, nursing home or other healthcare setting
- CPR/BLS certified
- Strong knowledge of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations,
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Supervises the nursing personnel and the day-to-day nursing activities of the facility during an
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- This job operates in a health care setting. This role requires regular walking to various locations
- Incumbent may be exposed to virus, disease and infection from patients and specimens in
- Incumbent may be required to work extended periods of time at a video display terminal
- Works beyond normal working hours and on weekends and holidays when necessary
- Must be able to stay or return to facility during emergency conditions
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
- This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping,
patients weighing over 50 pounds.
TRAVEL:
- No travel is expected for this position
