Assistant Nurse Manager - Center for Cardiovascular Care

Job Summary

The assistant nurse manager is a registered professional nurse who provides support and works in conjunction with the nurse manager of a specific unit(s) or service. He/she is viewed as aspiring to be a nurse manager and through this role to learn additional knowledge and skills through experience and mentoring by the nurse manager and the hospital/system.

Core Responsibilities And Essential Functions

• Engages staff in decision making via shared governance processes and partners with others to promote patient centered care and service excellence.
• Serves to support the charge nurse and other nurse leaders on the unit to promote the effective running of the care delivery system and ensures that the clinical processes of care are working as intended.
• Serves as a resource for all staff and accepts additional responsibilities in the nurse managers absence.
• Affords support to the nurse manager in budget development and supports monitoring and meeting fiscal outcomes for the work unit.
• Interdisciplinary Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Effectively communicates to diverse workforce and enjoys mentoring others while learning the necessary skills for progressive responsibilities in nursing management.
  • Works in collaboration with the nurse manager to hold all staff at point of care accountable for performance standards.
  • Creates opportunities for self and staff to grow and implements a healthy, safe, desirable work place that ensures for the retention and recruitment of qualified staff now and in the future.
• Exemplary Practice and Outcomes
  • Promote staff competency in clinical care delivery.
  • Holds self and staff to the highest professional and ethical standards, ensuring corporate compliance standards, clinical competency, etc. are met.
  • Is an active member of ones professional community and serves as a role model for professional nursing practice and nursing leadership.
  • Successfully works with nurse managers to employ change management strategies and instills in self and others the curiosity to explore new knowledge and ideas.
• Professional Development
  • Represents the organization positively to the community, building credibility and as a member of ones professional organization.
  • Sets up opportunities to advance knowledge and skills through formal and informal educational offerings to enhance understanding of how health care is financed and how to manage a diverse nursing workforce.
• Evidence Based Practice and Research
  • Promotes Evidence based practice, nursing research and performance improvement in nursing.
  • Participates in activities such as value analysis as part of the decision making process in evaluating patient care products.
  • Effectively identifies areas of performance improvement of staff and clinical systems.
  • Supports nurse leader projects to improve the same - includes assuring service meets or exceed licensure, regulatory and accreditation standards.
  • Advances managerial skills to effectively use data and evidence to support decision making for clinical and operational responsibilities and demonstrates awareness of legal and ethical issues related to patient and staff data, information and confidentiality.
• Complies with all WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

  Required Minimum Education

  Bachelor's Nursing or Master's Nursing

  Required Minimum License(s) And Certification(s)

  • RN - Reg Nurse (Single State) or RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact
  • BLS - Basic Life Support or ARC-BLS - Amer Red Cross Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor

  Additional License(s) And Certification(s)

  • National certification in nursing administration Upon Hire

  Preferred

  • Minimum 3 years of clinical experience