Nursing Administrator-part Time - New York, United States - Mount Sinai

Mount Sinai

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New York, United States

3 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Part time

Description

Description
The Nursing Administrator is a registered professional nurse with progressive administrative experience.

S/he supports Nurse Managers, Associate Nursing Directors and senior nursing leadership in the management of clinical units/specialty areas, fulfilling responsibilities for hospital and patient care services on assigned shifts.

Responsibilities Patient Care**•Leads nursing practice using the tenets of the Professional Practice Model of Relationship Centered Care and the Care Delivery Model of Modified Primary Nursing for the promotion of the patient experience.

Demonstrates proficiency in all aspects of Purposeful Hourly Rounding (PHR) and role models expected behaviors.
Ensures the integration of PHR into clinical activities to enhance Relationship Centered Care.
Validates staff members round hourly on all patients by direct observation and patient feedback.
Assesses staff competency in PHR and provides consistent meaningful feedback with more focused feedback as needed.
Oversees that rounding occurs on all patients on shift.
Communicates quantitative and qualitative information regarding the patient experience and staff engagement to the staff and the interdisciplinary health care team that leads to the development and implementation of an action plan.
Collaborates with the physician dyad and escalates concerns as appropriate.
Follows up on all patient concerns in a timely manner and provides service recovery as needed.
Demonstrates caring, respect, compassion, empathy and active listening through dialogue, body language and actions.

Patient Experience

Role models the tenets of Mount Sinai Relationship Centered Care (MSHRCC) through facilitation of the following actions but not limited to: Admission Welcome, Bedside Shift Report, HELP, AM/PM Care, 5 Minute Sit Down, Purposeful Hourly Rounding (PHR), Medication Review, Discharge Wrap Up, and MD/RN Unit Collaboration.
Ensures that staff huddles occur at the start of each shift, identifying high-risk patients who require special attention.
Communicates to nursing leadership concerns or issues identified during huddle and throughout shift.
Initiates service recovery for patients and family members who have concerns and escalates to the Clinical Nurse Manager/Associate Director of Nursing or designee and Patient Relations as needed.
Interprets and communicates patient experience scores and benchmarks and keeps staff informed of progress and areas of opportunity.
Considers the patients values, preferences, cultural diversity, expressed needs and knowledge in all aspects of care.
Empowers staff to use evidence-based practices to increase understanding of patient's perceptions of care.
Demonstrates caring, respect, compassion, empathy and active listening through dialogue, body language and actions.

Quality and Safety

Designs, supports and leads a safe, therapeutic and efficient patient-centered care environment for professional practice.
Identifies and investigates issues or variances in practice/operations by participating in the RCA process and implements corrective action plans.
Fosters a fair and open culture that encourages error and near-miss occurrence reporting.
Leads interdisciplinary quality improvement teams using the principles of high reliability.
Reviews unit progress, changes, and compliance with quality and safety metrics with clinical nurses and other members of the healthcare team.
Responds to escalations of potential safety hazards or gaps from best practice by correcting concerns following institutional chain of command protocol.
Monitors institutional information technology infrastructure and corrects gaps in clinical nurse documentation.
Leads staff participation in quality and safety initiatives and mandated compliance measures.
Demonstrates accountability for all unit quality and safety practices and compliance and ensures required evaluation of staff competencies is maintained.

Operations and administration

Supports implementation of the mission, vision, goals and objectives of the department, throughout the clinical service and individual patient care units.
Provides administrative and clinical oversight to ensure that all activity (staffing, support services, inter disciplinary collaboration, resources and financial viability) supports the goals of the organization.
Works collaboratively with physician dyads and the healthcare team to promote patient care and regulatory standards.
Maintains a nursing unit in compliance with all regulatory agency mandates, including the regulations of NYS DOH and The Joint Commission.
Oversees patient care delivery, throughput, staffing and processes to ensure efficient and effective operations during assigned shift.
Oversees the budget, including management of OT and vacancies, according to MSHS financial goals.
Provides input int