- Bachelors
- MAJOR
- Nursing
- EXPERIENCE
- 3 Years of Experience CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION
- Registered Nurse (RN)
Nurse Manager ICU and Cardiac Pulmonary - Guymon, United States - Baylor Scott & White Health
Description
JOB SUMMARYThe Manager, Nursing Registered Nurse (RN) 1 is accountable for creating and sustaining a healthy work environment for assigned nursing and unit-based personnel which fosters excellent professional nursing practice, mutual conclusion-making, inter-professional synergy and partnership, and a safe and caring environment for patients, family and staff.
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The manager plans, develops, implements, evaluates and monitors policies and procedures, budgets and the allocation of resources, continuous quality and performance improvement initiatives, educational programs and mutual governance councils to achieve departmental and organizational goals and targets.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLEProfessional Practice Environment:
Develops and articulates a vision for nursing practice for area of responsibility.
Engages supervisors and staff in the development and implementation of departmental goals and targets.
Creates, fosters and sustains a healthy work environment through mutual governance structures and processes which helps evidence-based nursing practice and research.
Ensures that staff members maintain proficiency based on standards of practice for patient population served.
Ensures that staff are well-informed by communicating to staff in a timely manner new/revised protocols, policies and procedures, guidelines and standards
Quality, Evidence-based Practice and Research:
Maintains current knowledge in evidence-based clinical and headship practices, nursing research findings, patient care delivery models and work redesign to proactively identify, plan, implement, evaluate and monitor quality/performance improvement initiatives to advance practice and improve patient care.
Systematically studies and evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice based on a variety of indicators including, but not limited to, State and national regulatory bodies and related national benchmarks.
Identifies, proposes and conducts clinical research
Caring Practices/Service Excellence:
Creates and sustains a humane, helpful, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff.
Examines patterns and trends from departmental patient care conferences, interprofessional rounds and outcome data, and implements changes to ensure best caring practices and outcomes for patients, families and staff.
Fosters an environment that is helpful of staffs professional and personal growth.
Accountable for development and implementation of the departments succession plan
Response to Diversity:
Identifies issues arising from personal differences and develops awareness of these issues in nursing staff, medical staff and other health care providers.
Role models, teaches and provides age-specific and developmentally-appropriate patient care in accordance with established guidelines and scope of duty or practice.
Advocacy and Moral Agency:
Advocates on behalf of the nursing staff to represent the concerns of patients, families and staff.
Fosters an ethical practice environment for professional practice and patient care based on optimum communication, synergy and coordination of care.
Promotes health care at local, state and national levels
Facilitation of Learning:
Monitors the learning needs of staff and patients/families and assists in the design, implementation and evaluation of appropriate, cost-effective educational opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills.
Facilitates the learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and communityPartnership:
Role models, teaches and mentors professional leadership and accountability for nursings role within the inter-professional health care team.
Heads and participates in departmental, hospital and system-wide programs, committees and special projects to achieve target outcomes.
Partners with medical, allied health and administrative staff to ensure provision of safe, quality, attentive health care
Systems Thinking:
Integrates knowledge of organizational mission, goals, and systems into staff and patient strategies Studies and prioritizes different demands, taking effective action to redesign systems to best meet the needs of patient population and staff
Professionalism:
Improves nursing practice and the work environment through participation in mutual governance and the conclusion-making processes, and meaningfully recognizing the contributions of others.
Identifies personal goals and seeks opportunities to pursue life-long learning through continuing education, networking with professional colleagues, membership and involvement in professional nursing organizations, self-study, professional reading, certification and seeking advance degrees.
Achieves national board certification in specialty within two years of promotion/appointment as Nursing Supervisor.
KEY SUCCESS FACTORSKnowledge and expertise of nursing and patient care standards and procedures.
Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care applicable to the area of assignment.
Knowledge of medical terminology; methods and practices of health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse reactions.
Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly; both verbally and in writing.
Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care to all patients through the nursing process and standards of nursing practice with care and respect for the diversity of human experience and to develop, evaluate, implement and, as necessary, modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of separate patients.
Ability to make operational conclusions around how work gets done- quality and productivity standards, measurable goals for employees and project teams, etc.
Ability to use broader aims to resolve how best to use resources to meet schedules and goals.
Ability to make or approve effective hiring and termination conclusions.
Ability to evaluate and recommend changes to policies, and establish procedures that affect the managed organization.
General computer skills, including but not limited to:
Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.
BENEFITSOur competitive benefits package includes the followingImmediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%Tuition ReimbursementPTO accrual beginning Day 1Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or levelQUALIFICATIONS- EDUCATION
Basic Life Support (BLS):
BLS or BLS within 30 days of hire or transfer.