Field Nurse Supervisors

I am confused by your post. Are you FNS for the unskilled patients? I cannot say I have heard of supervising/I am assuming your meaning evaluation/competency sup visits four times per year?

ARe you only doing skilled or unskilled or both? Are you using FNS as the same term as case manager?

Just trying to clarify so I can help you more.

renerian

I am confused by your post. Are you FNS for the unskilled patients? I cannot say I have heard of supervising/I am assuming your meaning evaluation/competency sup visits four times per year?

ARe you only doing skilled or unskilled or both? Are you using FNS as the same term as case manager?

Just trying to clarify so I can help you more.

renerian

We do only intermittant skilled nursing. The FNS has to do joint sup. visits with each nurse 4 times a year to assess their job performance. We are not casemanagers but have to do casemanagement and ct visits if a CM quits, until we can hire someone else. Wanting to know job description of other supervisors in home care. Thanks

I have seen some common and some uncommon duties listed on JDs in home care supervisor roles depending on the following:

patient population

company structure

acceditation

certification

licensure

skilled

unskilled

private pay

insurance contracts

Similar duties are on call

some QI duties

Coverage for unfilled visits

Sup visits with skilled staff/competency (have never seen it more than 2 times per year and that is for an accedited agency) 4 seems excessive

HR coaching and counseling

hiring/firing

orientation

staff education/inservices

competency training for staff at hire and other required intervals

policy and procedures

committee involvement

community involvement

OASIS training or other paperwork "stuff"

coding

customer service triage

disaster drills,coverage, documentation

Training of other managers

utilization studies

case mix studies to evaluate loss/profit etc.

staff meetings

meetings at client's home for problem solving

select errands for patients

triage dr orders etc.

purchase and pricing of equipment

assistance with regulatory compliance

productivity reports for yourself and those who report to you

and the infamous "other duties as assigned "

LOL.

Does this help at all,

renerian

I have seen some common and some uncommon duties listed on JDs in home care supervisor roles depending on the following:

patient population

company structure

acceditation

certification

licensure

skilled

unskilled

private pay

insurance contracts

Similar duties are on call

some QI duties

Coverage for unfilled visits

Sup visits with skilled staff/competency (have never seen it more than 2 times per year and that is for an accedited agency) 4 seems excessive

HR coaching and counseling

hiring/firing

orientation

staff education/inservices

competency training for staff at hire and other required intervals

policy and procedures

committee involvement

community involvement

OASIS training or other paperwork "stuff"

coding

customer service triage

disaster drills,coverage, documentation

Training of other managers

utilization studies

case mix studies to evaluate loss/profit etc.

staff meetings

meetings at client's home for problem solving

select errands for patients

triage dr orders etc.

purchase and pricing of equipment

assistance with regulatory compliance

productivity reports for yourself and those who report to you

and the infamous "other duties as assigned "

LOL.

Does this help at all,

renerian

Thanks, sounds like pretty much what we do. The biggest problem is that the auditing seems to take up about 70% of the day. Doing anywhere from 5-12 packets a day. Freq. interrupted while trying to get a picture of what is going on with the new cts. We don't feel that we are much help to the staff out in the field.

May I ask a roundabout number of clients you have? Is your agency accredited? I assume your certified? If you can let me know. I am asking to try to sort out your jobs and the auditing/OBQI, adverse events, best practice development, etc.

May I ask your company structure? ie) do you have a DON, OBQI person, Educator etc.

Helps me give more specified assistance.

renerian

Thanks Karen. Like I said before, if I lived near you I would come and apply! Your excellent!

renerian

May I ask a roundabout number of clients you have? Is your agency accredited? I assume your certified? If you can let me know. I am asking to try to sort out your jobs and the auditing/OBQI, adverse events, best practice development, etc.

May I ask your company structure? ie) do you have a DON, OBQI person, Educator etc.

Helps me give more specified assistance.

renerian

We are MCA certified, dropped our Joint Comm a while back to cut costs. We have a DOPS, FNS, a PI person who does OBQI along with the OBQI committees, team assisstants who enter orders, 485's, etc ( this will be done by the casemanagers soon) and answer phones. The intake nurse does the insurance auths. I have heard that some agencies use team leaders instead of supervisors, don't know what the differences are. I just know that we would like to do more to help the staff that sit and audit all day. We have approx 300-350 ct. Thanks for all of the replys, every bit helps. It's great support.

I love doing OBQI. Been downsized several times in that role thought from people spending to much on maintaining JCAHO LOL. I don't blame you for dropping it.

renerian