ASSISTANT NURSE EXECUTIVE (EMERGENCY ROOM)

Closing date: Monday, October 5, 2026 @ 4:00 PM

Responsibilities

• Provides guidance and direction to professional, ancillary, temporary or intermittent staff.
• Plans and adjusts work schedules and operations to meet established objectives, priorities, deadlines and Standards of Care.
• Communicates team assignments, projects, problem to be solved, actionable events, milestones, and/or program issues under review and deadlines and time frames for completion.
• Identifies, distributes and balances department workload, provides tasks among employees in accordance to skill levels and established workflows. To accomplish the workload in accordance with established priorities, to ensure timely accomplishment of assigned tasks and ensure each employee has an integral role in developing the final team product.
• Assesses team strengths and weaknesses and provide leadership to the team in exploring alternatives and determining what improvements can be made (e.g., work methods, processes and procedures).
• Serves as coach, facilitator and/or negotiator in coordinating team initiatives and in consensus building activities among team members.
• Ensures that the organization’s strategic plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team’s strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and work products and services.
• Coaches the team in the selection and application of appropriate problem solving methods and techniques, provide advice on work methods, practices and procedures, and assist the team and/or individual members in identifying the parameters of a viable solution.
• Ensures admissions and transfers are executed in a timely manner to assure continuity of patient care and efficiency of admission or transfer process.
• Accountable to monitor all aspects of patient care such as: Charge Nurse duties, proper documentation of nursing interventions, therapeutic measures administered, patient’s reactions and patient teaching and understanding.
• Advises/coaches less experienced staff in patient care, work organization and other matters. Identifies educational and training needs of team members and works with teams to accomplish tasks or projects.
• Provides or arranges for specific administrative or technical education and training necessary for accomplishment of individual team member needs or team needs.
• Prepare reports and maintain records of work accomplishments and administrative information, as required, and coordinates the preparation, presentation and communication of work-related information to the Nurse Executive.
• Monitors and reports on the status and progress of work, checking on work in progress and reviewing completed work to see that the Nurse Executive’s instructions on work priorities, methods, deadlines and quality have been met.
• Reports to the Nurse Executive as needed on team and