Manager Nursing Cancer Center - Houston, United States - Baylor St Luke's Medical Center

Baylor St Luke's Medical Center

Verified Company

Houston, United States

3 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

Overview

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center is one of only three National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated comprehensive cancer centers in Texas. This prestigious designation underscores our commitment to excellence in research, education, and - most importantly - patient care. Our highly skilled care team provides a comprehensive and compassionate approach to cancer, from prevention and early detection to advanced treatment modalities and survivorship. Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center is a nationally recognized cancer program dedicated to delivering the most advanced treatments, conducting groundbreaking research, and improving the lives of patients facing cancer, in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine. You will define clinical standards and workflows, ensuring the highest quality of care for our patients. You will be a vital partner to our physician and executive leaders, fostering collaboration and strategic direction for the Cancer Center's clinical enterprise.

Baylor St.

Luke's Medical Center is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care neuroscience oncology transplantation and more.

Our team's efforts have led to the creation of many research programs and initiatives to develop advanced treatments found nowhere else in the world.

In our commitment to advancing standards in an ever-evolving healthcare environment our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients visitors staff and physicians.

The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care research and education.

Our strong alliance with Texas Heart Institute and Baylor College of Medicine allows us to bring our patients a powerful network of care unlike any other.

Our collaboration is focused on increasing access to care through a growing network of leading specialists and revolutionizing healthcare to save lives and improve the health of the communities we serve.

The Manager of Nursing will have 24 hour accountability for a unit area.

The major responsibilities are in providing leadership and communication, monitoring the work environment, assuring quality, managing the fiscal budget, managing human resources and ensuring the delivery of competent clinical practice.

This Manager will ovesee a five-unit Cancer Clinic including Medical Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Breast Cancer Clinic, Gynecological Oncology, and Hematology Oncology.

Responsibilities

Support and actualizes the Division of Nursing philosophy and goals by assuming leadership in program development and implementation.
Staff is developed to assume leadership roles both formally and informally, via role modeling and facilitating staff participation in shared governance structure.
Facilitates development and implementation to solution to problems.
Develops and Implements effective communication channels to provide information to all staff members, holding at least one unit meeting per month with posting of minutes and notice.
Directs and Participates in the orientation of new employees, evaluates programs effecting employees.
Has an identified council structure with an elected Staff Nurse Professional Practice Council representative. Conducts unit council meetings monthly incorporating new knowledge and skills to meet changing needs of patient families, department employees and institution.
Has a positive working relationship and problem solving with other members of the patient care delivery team including physicians and other departments.
Participates in committees and task forces as indicated.
Facilitates staff to assume leadership roles.
Demonstrates positive leadership skills and communication that embraces changes, which results in achievement of outcomes
Staff actively Participates in clinical decision-making affecting practice.
Promotes a caring helpful environment including the arrangement of the physical setting and assembling equipment in a manner conducive to more effective and efficient nursing care
Participates in unit, service and divisional CQI/CQE programs, documents results, reports by deadlines, formulates corrective action plans for improvement.
Meets established research-based standards of care, quality control targets, operationalizes CQI.
Develops a multidisciplinary program to monitor quality patient care indicators.

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Maintains fiscal budget within established variance, focusing on hppd, labor cost per day, overtime, orientation costs, SSP costs and medical supplies.

Adjusts staffing patterns according to unit activity and patient acuity.
Reviews fiscal Worksheet, analyzing variances and implementing appropriate action plans.
Develops and Manages