Nurse Manager, Emergency Room, 40 Hours, All Shifts

Overview

You Matter Here! Heywood Healthcare values our employees! We offer competitive wages, great benefits and generous earned time off.

Come work where you will matter!

Hours : 40 Hours, All Shifts

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Designs and implements individual and group plans which develop and motivate employees
• Ensures that employee skills match job requirements.
• Completes all employee performance evaluations by evaluation due dates
• Improves patient and / or customer satisfaction
• Responds to customer requests and concerns in a timely and effective manner
• Utilizes customer satisfaction data to develop and anticipate customer service systems
• Staffing patterns and work flow design match customer requirements
• Justifies budget variances
• Reduces costs and / or increases revenues
• Participates on task forces, PI teams, committees, etc
• Leads task forces, PI teams, committees, etc.
• Develops mechanisms to assess response to nursing care from patients and families; consults with patient / families as necessary.
• Validates that care provided to patients is consistent with identified medical regimens, nursing plan of care, and is responsive to patient and family expectations
• Assumes accountability for remaining current regarding standards of care established by the profession, research findings, regulatory bodies, and government, and is able to determine, translate, and implement relevant implications for specific unit(s) of responsibility
• Ensures that nursing practice is consistent with current standards, regulations, and government standards of care
• Ensures staffing meet demand, adjusting as necessary for changes in workload, while meeting target productivity
• Selects, hires, evaluates, and counsels staff.
• Justifies staffing cost / patient day variances and implements strategies to reduce as appropriate
• Monitors supply expense, justifies variance, and implements strategies to reduce cost / patient day as appropriate.
• Participates on multi-disciplinary committee as appropriate
• Coordinates data collection, statistics, and performance improvement activities
• Participates in the ER Committee, prepares agenda items, minutes, and follow-up related to the ER Committee action items.
• Coordinates data collection, statistics, performance improvement activities, and Medical Staff related issues related to the ER Committee
• Responsible for assessing staff performance with Medication Reconciliation and providing remediation or progressive discipline where indicated
• Responsible for assessing staff performance with hand hygiene compliance and participating in compliance rounds as requested by Infection Prevention Director.

Provide remediation or progressive discipline to employees as indicated

Responsible for assessing staff performance with VAP bundle adherence and reporting of outliers. Provide remediation or progressive discipline where indicated

Statement of Other Duties :

This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions.

It should be understood, therefore, that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described

Functional Demands Physical Requirements : Exerts up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and / or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and / or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.

Frequently reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction), and handles (seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or working with hands).

Organizational Expectations Behavioral Attributes : The following behavioral attributes are required : achievement motivation, concern for order, flexibility, initiative, self-confidence, customer service oriented, interpersonal effectiveness, teamwork, analytical thinking and information seeking.

Qualifications

Job Requirements Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree required

Minimum Work Experience

Three to five years progressive clinical and administrative experience.

Required Licenses

• Current MA RN licensure
• Current certification in ACLS (AHA) upon hire or obtained within 60 days
• Current certification in BLS (AHA)
• Current certification in PALS (AHA)
• TNCC, ENPC and CEN preferred

Required Skills

• Able to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Strong written and verbal skills.
• Basic computer knowledge.
• Appropriate telephone communication skills.
30+ days ago