RN House Supervisor Skills Checklist

SKILLS CHECKLIST

RN House Supervisor All the fields are mandatory
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Instructions: This checklist is meant to serve as a general guideline for our client facilities as to the level of your skills within your nursing specialty. Please use the scale below to describe your experience/expertise in each area listed below. 
Proficiency : - 1 = Never Performed 2 = Limited Experience 3 = Comfortable Performing 4 = Proficient
Frequency : - 1 = Never 2 = Sometimes 3 = Often 4 = Always
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Age Specific
Infant (Birth to 1 year)
 
Toddler (1-3 years)
 
Pre-school (3-6 years)
 
School Age (6-12 years)
 
Adolescent (12-18 years)
 
Young Adult (18-30 years)
 
Mature Adult (30-60 years)
 
Elderly (>60 years)
 
HR MANAGEMENT

STAFF PERFORMANCE
Periodic and annual
performance evaluations
 
Employee performance
improvement plans
 
Career and succession planning
 
FEDERAL/STATE LAWS AND
ORGANIZATIONAL POLICIES
Recruitment/Hiring
 
Interviewing
 
Termination
 
Leave of Absences (e.g.
medical, disability, FMLA)
 
Hours/Wages (e.g. overtime)
 
Accommodations (e.g. disability)
 
Staff scope of practice (e.g.
licensure)
 
Mandated reporting (e.g. abuse,
disease)
 
Controlled substance diversion
 
Fitness for duty
 
UNIT AND STAFF MANAGEMENT

UNIT STAFFING
Staffing by (NHPPD, acuity, skill
mix)
 
Flexing, floating, on-call policies
 
Charge RN duties
 
Scheduling
 
LEADERSHIP
Conflict resolution strategies
 
Promote staff engagement and
retention
 
Promote cultural competence
and humility
 
Change management facilitator
 
Team building
 
Facilitation/Collaboration with
others (e.g. physicians, other
departments, outside agencies)
 
Patient/Family issues
 
Ethical dilemmas
 
Mentorship/Coaching
 
Staff/Patient advocate
 
Educator
 
Conduct staff meetings
 
Create unit goals aligned with
organizational strategic goals
 
CLINICAL OPERATIONS
Development of unit
policies/procedures
 
Development/Evaluation of
orientation programs
 
Promote use of EBP and
research
 
Utilization of supplies/resources
 
Analyze workflows for efficiency
 
Regulatory compliance(e.g.
OSHA, HIPAA, CMS)
 
Crisis management during
emergencies
 
FISCAL MANAGEMENT

MANAGE AND EVALUATE
UNIT PRODUCTIVITY
Nursing hours per patient day
 
Nurse to patient ratios
 
Staff skill mix
 
Patient acuity
 
Staffing models
 
Annual average daily census
(ADC)
 
MANAGE UNIT FINANCES
AND BUDGET
Capital budgeting
 
Calculating ROI
 
Calculating ROA
 
New program assessment
 
Payroll process for staff
 
Revenue and expense
forecasting
 
Reporting on budget variance
 
Cost-benefit analysis
 
Evaluation of productivity
 
Balance sheets
 
Direct/Indirect costs
 
Variable/Fixed Cost
 
FINANCIAL IMPACT
OF REGULATIONS
AND PAYMENT
Payer mix (Medicare, Medicaid,
managed care, third-party
providers)
 
Diagnosis-related group (DRG)
classifications
 
International Classification
of Diseases (ICD)-9 & 10 codes
 
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
AND QUALITY

IMPLEMENT PROCESSES
PDCA
 
Root cause analysis (RCA)
 
Failure Mode Effects analysis
(FMEA)
 
QI/PI projects
 
EBP models
 
Data analysis/trends
 
Dashboard reporting
 
Benchmarking
 
Charts reviews (concurrent,
retrospective)
 
EVALUATE AND MANAGE
METRICS
Staff satisfaction
 
Patient satisfaction
 
Nurse-sensitive indicators:
Structure, process, outcome
(e.g. falls, CAUTI, RN
workforce)
 
Core measures
 
Error, events, and incidences
 
Staff injuries
 
Length of stay (LOS)
 
Staff turnover/retention
 
RISK MANAGEMENT AND
SAFETY
Promote “Just Culture” for error
reporting
 
Continuous readiness
 
TJC National Patient Safety
Goals
 
Error prevention strategies
 
TECHNOLOGY
Use of EHR for reporting, data
analysis, and workflow
 
Medication/ADC reports
 
Modalities for presentations
(e.g. Powerpoint ,Excel)
 
Work History
Years Experience in Clinical Speciality :
Most recent facility worked at :