Department/Unit:

Pediatrics Neonatology

Work Shift:

Day (United States of America)

Salary Range:

$0.00 - $0.00

APP Supervisor - NICU

The APP Supervisor coordinates, plans, directs, implements and manages the administrative, financial and operational responsibilities of fellow Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in the delivery of specialized patient care. They assure that competent, compassionate patient care is uniformly provided to customers including referring facilities, hospital staff and patients in the inpatient, ambulatory, and community settings. The NP Supervisor maintains proficiency in direct patient care, including the responsibility and accountability for the assessment and management of patients, including ordering diagnostic tests, consultations, therapeutic interventions and the day to day implementation and evaluation of an appropriate plan of care. The NP Supervisor develops, implements, and evaluates policies, programs and services consistent with the hospital's mission and departmental/unit's vision and philosophy. They provide direction and support to unit-based staff and collaborates with other service and department leaders toward attainment of short- and long-term goals and objectives.

Essential Functions:

Professional Standards of Clinical Practice (American Association of Critical-Care Nurses)

• Assessment: Collects patient data in a continuous process that recognizes the dynamic nature of acute, critical, and complex chronic illness.

• Diagnosis: Analyzes the assessment data in determining diagnoses.

• Planning: Develops an individualized and dynamic plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.

• Implementation: Implements interventions identified in the interdisciplinary plan of care.

• Coordination of Care: Coordinates interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary teams to develop or revise plans of care focused on patient and/or family concerns.

• Evaluation: Performs systemic and ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions to assess the patient's progress toward attainment of expected outcomes.

• Education: Facilitates education to families with respect to post-discharge care plans including dressing/wound care and feeding plans.

Operational and Financial Management

• Promotes the use by colleges and universities of the facilities for clinical education and foster good relationships between hospital and their education institutions.
• Networks to establish the hospital as a pre-eminent source of professional education, healthcare information and patient care delivery.
• Contributes to unit budget planning by analyzing program needs, considering resources necessary for patient care and developing plans on both a short and long-term basis.

Human Resource Management

• Selects qualified and quality personnel.
• Provides direction and acts as a mentor in assisting direct reports to succeed.
• Mentors counsels and disciplines staff to ensure quality of work and adherence to hospital policies and procedures, while engaging in and advocating for succession planning for nurse leaders.
• Conducts review of appropriate personnel to ensure current required license, certification, or registration is maintained as evidenced by meeting all minimum job qualifications and lack of valid citations.
• Establishes a master schedule using annual FTEs established in the budget process.
• Establishes work schedules and assignments in conformance with current federal, state, local wage and hour laws, and hospital policies.
• Provides for effective distribution and utilization of personnel based on unit needs by collecting and analyzing data to determine changing unit trends.
• Provides for in-service and continuing education needs for all personnel in the unit.

Systems Leadership

• Is aware of and compliant with all hospital and regulatory agency safety goals and objectives.
• Develops and participates in organizational systems and processes that promote optimal patient outcomes.
• Analyzes system enhancements and barriers that have an impact on patient care.
• Consults and collaborates with the patient, family, and other health care providers to provide coordinated, interdisciplinary care.
• Incorporates resource utilization by assisting interdisciplinary team members, patients, and families to select therapies that are cost effective, uphold quality standards, and foster the greatest benefit.
• Contributes to individual and system responses in the resolution of ethical dilemmas.

Research

• Collects and analyzes data regarding the performance of procedures, delivery of care, the incidence and types of complications, and the resulting effect on patients, in order to evaluate and improve practice.
• Participates in, or leads as directed, various hospital committees that evaluate the quality and effectiveness of acute, critical, and complex patient care.
• Formulates recommendations to improve clinical practice based on data obtained from the work environment, quality-of-care activities, and scientific evidence.
• Promotes dissemination of knowledge and advances the profession through writing, publishing, and presenting to professional or lay audiences.

Consultation

• Remains accessible to all staff on an ongoing basis and visible in the department.
• Serves as a liaison with nursing leadership to identify learning needs of staff.
• Demonstrates follow through and effective problem-solving activities with staff, customers, physicians, and other departments.
• Works with nursing leadership to develop educational programs to address gaps in nursing knowledge.
• Actively follows up with quality issues as identified.

Patient Safety

• Monitor the compliance of professional, regulatory and governmental standards and maintain liaison with administration, quality, and risk management on regulatory agency investigations pertinent to the nursing organization.

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Albany Medical is an equal opportunity employer.

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Access to information is based on a "need to know" and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Center policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.