Hugh Chatham Health
Elkin, NC
R283487
Major Responsibilities:
Unit Management – Facilitates the organization and management of the unit. Contributes to the provision of safe, quality patient care.
Prepares shift assignments utilizing knowledge of staff member's education level, work experience and job description and patient acuity (per Patient Classification System).
Monitors unit activities to ensure assignments are completed in a timely, neat and appropriate manner.
Collaborates with the Patient Care Supervisor and/or Director of Patient Care to make schedule/ assignment changes to provide for safe, consistent and smooth functioning of the unit (i.e., calling in additional staff, sending staff home and reassigning staff as needed). Receives and records calls for absences in the absence of the staff.
Supervises and delegates patient care as needed. Maintains awareness of notification of appropriate physician, when indicated, of changes in patient's condition.
Notifies Director of...