Unit Manager - RN

The Unit Manager \- RN oversees the nursing operations and provides leadership for a designated unit within a healthcare, long\-term care, or assisted living facility. This role involves managing nursing staff, ensuring high\-quality patient care, creating and implementing individualized care plans, and ensuring compliance with all regulatory standards. The Unit Manager \- RN collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to ensure the physical, emotional, and psychosocial well\-being of all residents in the unit. ### **Key Responsibilities:** * **Leadership and Supervision:** + Supervise and manage the nursing staff, including RNs, LPNs, and Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs), ensuring they provide high\-quality care. + Conduct performance evaluations, provide feedback, and offer coaching and professional development opportunities for staff. + Create staff schedules, ensuring adequate coverage for each shift while managing time\-off requests and overtime. + Address staffing issues, such as call\-offs, and provide timely solutions to ensure proper coverage and care delivery. * **Patient Care and Management:** + Oversee the care of residents, ensuring that each patient receives individualized, comprehensive care in accordance with their care plan. + Conduct assessments of residents' conditions and update care plans accordingly. + Work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team, including physicians, therapists, and social workers, to ensure coordinated care. + Provide direct nursing care when necessary, such as administering medications, treatments, and performing clinical procedures. * **Care Plan Development and Implementation:** + Develop and update care plans based on resident assessments, ensuring they align with residents' medical, emotional, and psychological needs. + Participate in resident care conferences, advocating for appropriate care interventions and adjustments to treatment plans as needed. + Ensure all nursing staff follow care pl