RN Shift Manager Pediatric Full Time Days

Position Accountabilities:
1. Determines staffing requirements to assure safe and competent patient care.  Considers patient acuity, age specific needs of patients, staff skill mix, and individual patient’s plan of care when making assignments.  Demonstrates flexibility in response to unexpected changes in volume, emergencies, staffing, or schedule changes.                        
2. Assists the Pediatric Department Director with employee evaluations and performance management.  Utilizes observation techniques, chart review, and patient interviews to evaluate staff nurse performance and quality of patient care delivered.  Assists employees to improve/maintain performance by establishing goals with measurable performance outcomes, action plans, and time frames.                        
3. Assists the Pediatric Department Director in developing unit goals and plans for evaluating and achieving those initiatives.                        
4. Assists Director with schedules, time and attendance, quality improvement projects, reports, documents, and files.                        
5. Demonstrates basic understanding of budget requirements.  Maintains supplies and productivity within guidelines.  Develops strategies to effectively utilize “down time” on designated shift.                        
6. Seeks and accepts responsibility for committee participation, special projects, and teaching presentations.                        
7. Initiates and facilitates a multidisciplinary, goal oriented care plan for each patient in collaboration with members of the health care team and provides care based on that plan.                        
8. Adheres to DMC practices for moderate sedation.  Identifies resources for guidelines to ensure safe care and monitoring of patients.                        
9. Ensures patient safety by assessing and proactively implementing safety measures with specific consideration of patient’s functional and developmental age.                        
10. Demonstrates the ability to provide appropriate interventions in-patient care emergencies and follows established emergency procedures.  Takes appropriate action in emergency situations and develops others’ ability to do so.  Assists staff in prioritizing, as needed.                         
11. Determines the presence and type of Advance Directive, as appropriate.  Contacts appropriate resources to assist the patient and family as needed.                        
12. Delegates patient care tasks to ancillary personnel based on individual competency and scope of practice.  Evaluates effectiveness of care performed.                        
13. Performs duties in a manner that provides for the psychosocial and spiritual needs of the patient and family.  Completes all assessments in a timely manner interpreting the neonate, infant, pediatric and adolescent’s behavior with an understanding of the physical, emotional, and chronological maturation process.  Differentiates between normal and abnormal findings.  Incorporates age-specific considerations, such as functional and developmental age, into the care of the neonate (0 to 30 days), infant (31 days to 1 year), pediatric (1 to 12 year), and adolescent (13-17 years) and when providing care, performing procedures, or providing comfort.                        
14. Additional responsibilities are outlined on the Clinical Ladder, and are to be documented on the Annual Evaluation Checklist.                        
15. Manages pain effectively during painful procedures or in response to physiologic condition.                        
16. Ensures patient safety by applying infant security device to neonate and infant up to 3 years of age, providing family education related to infant security measures during hospitalization.                        
17. Provides appropriate nursing interventions to include, but not limited to: (1) growth and development assessment, (2) gavage and NG feedings, (3) IV placement, and (4) assisting physicians with procedures as required.                        
18. Identifies patient family educational needs.  Demonstrates individualized teaching that considers the functional/ developmental age and needs of the neonate, infant, pediatric and adolescent patient.  Evaluates and documents the effectiveness of teaching by assessing comprehension and/or return demonstration by the patient family.                        
19. Demonstrates the ability to provide care in emergencies and follows established emergency procedures and practices.  Recognizes and responds appropriately to neonatal distress.  Assists physician with resuscitation.                        
20. Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for departmental/hospital clinical performance improvement initiatives by utilizing appropriate communication channels (i.e. through shift supervisor, director, or committee representatives) and implementing committee-approved.                        
21. Demonstrates role in noise reduction and traffic control efforts in the department.                         
22. Mentors, models and monitors activities to enhance customer service including:  hourly patient rounding, managers daily rounding, bedside shift reporting, and “No Pass Zone”.                        
23. Responsible for acuity of patient and inputting of PCSS.  Ensures acuity system maintained and updated.                        
24. All other duties as assigned                        

Position Qualifications                        
                        
Minimum Education:                        
                        
Minimum Experience/Skills: 3 to 5 years experience preferred                 
                                  
License/Certificates/Credentials: Current: California Registered Nursing License, BLS certification, PALS certification                                
                        
Physical Demands: Prolonged, extensive or considerable standing/walking. Lift/position up to 50 lbs. Push/pull up to 50 lbs of force. Reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, manual dexterity and mobility, ability to move quickly.                
                        
Vision Requirements:  Ability to adjust vision sufficiently to perform position accountabilities                        
                        
Working Conditions: Regularly exposed to the risk of contagious and blood borne diseases, subject to varying and unpredictable situations, exposure to unpleasant elements (accidents, injuries, illness), emergency and crisis situations, subject to irregular hours, increased stress due to multiple calls and inquiries, occasional exposure to radiation hazards, radioactive substances, and biohazards.

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