Nurse Manager, Baylis Day Surgery
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Job Location:
Springfield, VT - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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Overview
The Nurse Manager operates within the Springfield Memorial Hospital and Nursing Division mission vision strategic priorities and goals. Utilizing a shared leadership philosophy the Nurse Manager assumes accountability for department management and the quality of patient care in a designated department. The Nurse Manager creates and maintains a work environment conducive to effective communication collaboration teambuilding and nursing professionalism. She/he ensures the enculturation of the Magnet Program requirements in the department. She/he assures that care provided in the department is appropriate to the age of the patients served and that staff are competent to provide safe quality evidence-based nursing care. She/he maintains positive physician and interdepartmental relationships as well as positive employee morale.
Qualifications
Education:
BSN required; Masters degree preferred.
Licensure/Certification/Registry:
Current Illinois RN licensure required.
Holds national specialty nursing certification in clinical area or nursing administration or completes within 24 months of assuming role.
Experience:
At least three years experience in acute care nursing as a registered nurse with demonstrated progressive leadership/management skills.
Other Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
Demonstrated working knowledge of the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program model and standards.
Demonstrated understanding of nurse-sensitive quality indicators and basic hospital/nursing regulatory requirements.
Responsibilities
Leadership:
- Personal and Professional Growth:
- Demonstrates responsibility for own personal and professional growth as reflected in ongoing education projects and annual professional development plan.
- Provides and receives formal peer-to-peer feedback among nurse leader colleagues.
- Empowers self and staff to enhance patient-focused nursing care and quality patient outcomes as reflected in patient satisfaction and quality improvement efforts.
- Fosters an environment which focuses on values professionalism and accountability where staff and management see each other as partners in the decision making process.
- Serves as a professional nurse role model and works to encourage and develop future nursing leaders as a function of succession planning.
- Clinical Knowledge:
- Maintains an understanding of the units primary patient populations and their care needs/requirements.
- Keeps up-to-date on new clinical treatments/services being developed/implemented for primary patient populations.
- Maintains a sound knowledge base of current trends and developments in nursing practice in order to lead unit-based changes to improve patient care delivery.
- Collaborative Practice:
- Demonstrates ability and willingness to collaborate with peers and staff.
- Shows commitment to the development of inter-departmental/intraprofessional collaboration for improvement of patient care unit efficiency and effectiveness.
- Develops working relationships with the medical staff that encourage problem solving on all levels.
- Builds and maintains a strong Unit-Based Council to facilitate shared decision-making process.
- Community Involvement:
- Involves self with professional organizations and community health-related services and agencies.
Communication Skill:
- Encourages and facilitates a work climate conducive to open honest communication and incorporates an effective information sharing process to ensure staff are kept up to date on key changes/issues affecting their work processes.
- Demonstrates a communication style which is supportive and non-threatening thus providing an environment that allows for open expression of ideas and problem solving.
- Attends Nurse Management Council and Department Managers meetings and relays pertinent information to staff.
Human Resource:
- Is accountable for recruitment interviewing selection and retention of unit-based staff.
- Is accountable for scheduling of personnel to assure quality patient care within budget requirements.
- Is accountable for staff performance monitoring/feedback/appraisal and initiating corrective/disciplinary action as necessary in accordance with hospital policies.
- Holds regular staff meetings in order to facilitate communication of organizational imperatives/changes as well as unit issues.
- Encourages staff to identify personal and professional growth needs and facilitates appropriate opportunities for that growth.
- Maintains a climate which provides ongoing appreciation and recognition of achievements.
- Supports appropriate risk-taking efforts by staff and peers.
- Assists in the development of and supports divisional programs/initiatives that promote recruitment/retention and satisfaction of staff members.
Fiscal Management:
- Budget Preparation:
- Participates in the preparation of the annual budget for areas of responsibility.
- Identifies capital equipment items needed.
- Identifies and evaluates present and future staffing needs.
- Budget Monitoring:
- Establishes quotas of supplies analyzes financial and productivity reports.
- Reviews and evaluates monthly expenditures and operating statements and implements corrective action plans to address variances as necessary.
- Designs and implements cost-effective strategies that will enhance effective and efficient patient care delivery.
- Educates staff regarding operation of the unit and fiscal responsibilities.
- Maintains sound knowledge base of current trends and developments in health care related to reimbursement issues.
Planning:
- Engages staff in developing annual unit goals and individual goals consistent with MMCs Strategic Priorities the MHS Nursing Strategic Plan and the MMC annual Nursing goals.
- Develops mechanisms with staff to fulfill unit goals and objectives.
- Reviews goals and plans of action with staff on a regular basis.
Performance and Outcomes Improvement:
- Identifies quality improvement opportunities and uses appropriate QI tools/techniques to evaluate potential solutions.
- Leads intra-and inter-departmental problem solving to ensure resolution of clinical issues and adoption of best practices.
- Collaborates with staff in evaluating standards of care in relation to a particular patient population. Measures and validates that identified outcomes are met.
- Assures unit performance measurement data is gathered monitored and reported and facilitates its use in improving quality and/or efficiency.
Research:
- Creates an environment that promotes analytical thinking in the resolution of identified clinical problems and the adoption of evidence-based nursing practice.
- Provides opportunities and resources to encourage staff to participate in nursing research/scholarship activities.
- Fosters collaborative research relationships with other healthcare institutions and healthcare providers.
Performs other related work as required or requested.
Required Experience:
Manager
