Nurse Supervisor

Cancer Specialists of North Florida

Nurse Supervisor

Job Description

Job Title:             Nurse Supervisor

Department:      Nursing

Reports To:         Practice Manager or Practice Administrator         

FLSA Status:       Exempt

Summary:  

The Nurse Supervisor provides professional nursing care of patients; plans and oversees departmental nursing staff, ensuring customer satisfaction and adherence to policies, standards, regulations and practices.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Plans, organizes and oversees nursing staff to provide patient care; evaluates care and ensures patient satisfaction.
• Oversees the daily staffing requirements, orients clinical staff to their job responsibilities and provides leadership in clinical problem solving.
• Oversee and coordinate  efficient and appropriate patient flow in and out of the infusion room
• Interact with and maintain effective relationships with other departments and supervisors
• Mixes and administers chemotherapy, biotherapy, hydration, hematopoietic growth factors and other medications under the direction and supervision of a physician.
• Follows standard policies and procedures to carry out medical orders.
• Assess patient and family learning needs, physical and mental abilities, and readiness to learn.  Provides teaching and other instructional material.  Demonstrates awareness of community resources available to patients and assists with referrals if necessary
• Monitors, analyzes, and communicates laboratory data, imaging, and other test for determination of changes in patients’ status.  Communicates all pertinent information and any interventions to the physician.
• Performs assessment of patients in the areas of biophysical needs, psychosocial needs, performance status score, self-care needs, educational, spiritual and emotional needs.
• Demonstrates competency in the performance of simple and complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures such as venipunctures, care of vascular devices and dressing changes.
• Demonstrates competency in telephone triage, including the ability to assess the problem and plan the appropriate patient intervention.  Completes QCL’s in a timely manner.
• Documents nursing assessments, patient teaching and fluid and medication administration in the patient chart.
• Adheres to safety and quality control measures such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration, infections control, and sterilization criteria.
• Writes and delivers annual performance evaluations
• Maintains patient confidentiality
• Any additional duties as assigned

Additional Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrates awareness of legal issues in all aspects of patient care.
• Displays excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates self-direction learning through completion of orientation requirements, nursing certification and updates, and continuing education programs.
• Possesses clinical assessment skills relative to the medical oncology patient/family.
• Strong ability to use data and computer systems and electronic health records in support of patient care delivery.
• Strong supervisory skills.
• Strong judgment and critical analytic skills.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Yes

Education and/or Experience:

• Associates or Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN preferred)
• Degree from an accredited program for professional nursing education, BSN preferred
• Minimum of one year nursing experience, preferably in an oncology environment
• Continuing education requirements must be maintained
• Current or pending oncology certification preferred

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Registered Nurse state license
• Basic life support (BLS) certificate
• OCN or Radiation certification preferred
• ONS (or equivalent) Chemotherapy and Biotherapy course or ONS Radiation certification required with 6 months of hire.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.   Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.   Requires full range of body motion including manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.  Requires standing/sitting for extensive periods of time.   Occasionally lifts and carries items weighting up to 40 pounds.  Required corrected vision and hearing to normal range.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics describe here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  May include exposure to communicable diseases, medical preparations, and other conditions common to an oncology/hematology clinic environment.   Requires frequent interaction with patients, families, physicians, clinical staff, external agencies and organizations.