Administrative Nurse Manager - ICU/CCU

Patient Care

• Awareness of daily operations to guide patient care delivery
• Application of the nursing process by Registered Nurses
• Initiation of continuous quality improvement

Operations and Personnel Management

• Development and maintenance of budget and staffing plans
• Recruitment, selection, retention, and evaluation of personnel
• Ensuring provision of qualified human resources
• Evaluation of performance of personnel
• Advocacy for a work environment that minimizes work-related illness or injury
• Striving for a workforce reflecting population diversity
• Ensuring culturally competent care and healthy, safe working environment

Leadership

• Facilitation of development of leadership activities
• Promotion of staff and self-attendance at meetings and educational programs
• Participation in organizational committees and decision making
• Providing input into executive level decisions
• Facilitating atmosphere of participative management and development of collegial relationships
• Participation in interdepartmental relationship building
• Participation in nursing policy formation and decision making
• Identification of methods to achieve and monitor compliance with requirements of regulatory organizations
• Participation in renovation and project management
• Participation in service line growth and practice innovation
• Participation in strategic planning activities

Professional Development

• Contribution to development of self and staff through educational programs
• Facilitation and encouragement of staff to obtain relevant specialty certification
• Earns and maintains appropriate specialty certification
• Participation in education of nursing and other students in health care environment
• Participation and encouragement of staff to participate in organizational policy formation and decision making
• Active participation in divisional, departmental, and hospital/organization activities
• Development and maintenance of professional competencies
• Serving as a member or officer of community groups or agencies
• Participation and assuming leadership roles in professional organizations

Research and Evidence-Based Practice

• Ensuring an evidence-based practice environment
• Facilitation of dissemination of research findings
• Integration of evidence-based guidelines and practices in the health care setting
• Identification of areas of clinical and administrative inquiry suitable for nurse researchers
• Identification of key measures for department success
• Monitoring progress of goals and developing actions to attain goals
• Communication of goals to staff and others in the organization