Nurse Manager - Medical Telemetry/Surgical

NURSE MANAGER - Medical Telemetry / Surgical

Purpose : Provides leadership for the practice and delivery of safe, effective, efficient, ethical, and culturally-competent patient care.

This includes oversight of management of human, fiscal, and material resources in accordance with hospital guidelines, organizational / nursing philosophies, and in compliance with regulatory and professional standards.

Key accountabilities include fostering interdisciplinary collaborative relationships; using critical thinking and analytical skills to evaluate outcome data;

designing / implementing performance improvement strategies based on data; and promoting evidence-based practice.

Report To : Chief Nurse Officer

Supervisory Responsibility : The job requires direct supervision of employees on multiple shifts. Job duties include the full range of supervisory activities such as hiring, training, assigning, monitoring and assessing work, promoting etc.

Work involves ensuring that human resource related decisions are compatible with the organization's policies, practices and direction.

Materials Responsibility : Limited : Work requires limited responsibility for material resources. Examples of resources could include supplies, equipment, inventories, small budgets, and other similar material assets.

The employee has a limited amount of control over these resources. The cost of errors is also limited in terms of damage, waste or financial loss.

Problems associated with material resources are not complex. The volume of resources may vary, but the level of difficulty in dealing with these resources is uncomplicated.

Key Relationship : Co-workers / Health System Employees, Outside Agencies / Other Health Care Providers, General Public / Visitors / Volunteers, Patients, Families, and Significant Others, Physicians / Medical Office Staff, Students / Interns / Residents / Outside Instructors, Vendors / Clients

POSITION SPECIFICATION

Education : Bachelor's Degree, in Nursing, Master's Degree in Health related field must be obtained within 5 years of hire.

Training Preferred : ANCC certification

Licensure / Registration : Registered Nurse in Illinois, Registered Nurse in Iowa within 1 year.

Experience : 2 years experience required.

Interpersonal Skills : Interaction is with a variety of people inside or outside the organization. Communications are often difficult or stressful in nature.

Contact with others involves complex, detailed and often sensitive topics. The job requires a high degree of interpersonal skills to deal with a range of complicated problem situations.

Interactions involve gaining the agreement of others.

SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Masters Degree within 5 years of employment

RN license for Illinois and RN license for Iowa within 1 year of employment