Nurse Floor Supervisor

Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services.

Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. We are recruiting for the following position:

Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization

Nurse Floor Supervisor - Posting #27405

Hourly Rate: $38.46

Position Summary:

Full-time Nurse Floor Supervisor position available for Cannon House, our Assisted Living Facility in Seattle, Washington.

The mission of Cannon House is to provide safe, affordable, and high-quality assisted living for retirees, seniors, and others in need of residential care who want to live as independently as possible. The Facility is looking for an RN or LPN licensed in WA State that has current CPR training.

This Candidate must have good customer service, communication, interpersonal skills and maintain a high level of professionalism. Applicants must maintain good attendance. In addition they must demonstrate strong time management and organizational skills.

Must exercise good judgment, maintain strict confidentiality, and have the ability to work both independently and as part of a team. This position's schedule is Friday-Tuesday.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
• Able to identify and categorize each patient’s age-specific grouping of needs, such as those for infant, adolescent, or geriatric patients.
• The RN/LPN is responsible for leading, collecting, and performing Clinical Quality Measures for every patient at an average of 21 patients per day. This includes patients being seen in the clinic as well as outreach to patients who have yet to be seen. Responsible for management of nurse visit encounters. These will include fast-track immunizations; annual employee screenings, immigration follow ups, blood pressure checks, diabetic checks, non-stress test for OB patients, pregnancy confirmations, Depo-Provera injections and others as developed following standing orders.
• The RN/LPN must be able to perform special procedures such as obtaining IV access for adults, blood draws, and pediatric and adult urinary catheterization. Also, he/she is required to administer IM, SubQ, and intradermal injections, rectal, oral, and inhaled medications as ordered by the provider and/or using standing orders.
• The RN/LPN may be required to room patients and assist providers in procedures.
• Facilitate emergency referrals according to the utilization management guidelines when the referral coordinator is unavailable.
• Coordinate transfer of acute patients when ordered by provider to the appropriate facility e.g. emergency room.
• The RN/LPN will be the “floating” troubleshooter and resource person for the pods to assure that all scheduled patients are seen in a reasonable amount of time and to assure that those without appointments are assisted appropriately. They will act as a liaison between the different pods to facilitate patient scheduling of a same day appointment when one pod has no more available appointments.
• The RN/LPN will be responsible in the efficient and organized coordination of personnel in the case of an emergency, i.e., a code.
• Help assure patients are being seen in a safe and timely manner.
• Assist in the training of new nursing staff members.
• Respect the culturally diverse backgrounds of Sea Mar patients and staff.
• The RN/LPN will work closely with the Nurse Manager and Nursing Supervisors in assisting with administrative duties. These duties may include, but are not limited to, quality assessment, improvement and…