Assistant Nurse Manager - CVOR and Vascular Surgery

Join our team at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Indian River Hospital is in sunny Florida’s Treasure Coast where it is committed to providing optimal family-centric and community-focused care. At Indian River Hospital, you will be part of a collaborative, compassionate, and innovative team of caregivers. You will work with state-of-the-art technology and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

Indian River Hospital offers comprehensive Cardiovascular Operating Room (CVOR) services and advanced vascular surgery through its renowned Welsh Heart Center. The hospital recently achieved the highest possible three-star rating from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures, placing its surgical outcomes in the top 20% nationwide.

About the role

As an Assistant Nurse Manager on the CVOR and Vascular Surgery team, you will help patients feel comfortable, at ease, and supported while receiving treatment. With an emphasis on professional development and success, you will also encourage caregivers to enhance their skills and the patient experience through improvement initiatives and incentives. This is an excellent opportunity for an RN looking to advance their career into a leadership role. Here, you will learn new leadership skills and how to manage and define a cardiovascular program. This position requires a caregiver who is empathetic, understanding, and nurturing to ensure quality patient care.

On this team, you will have numerous opportunities to explore educational development courses and advance the Professional Ladder at Cleveland Clinic.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and coordinate unit clinical operations.
• Provide effective and efficient patient care to all ages on assigned shifts or as otherwise designated.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration among unit caregivers and other departments/units.
• Ensure continuity of patient care information between shifts.
• Coordinate patient admitting, discharges, transfers, and other operational issues.
• Review major operational patient care issues with Nurse Managers.
• Provide ongoing clinical evaluations of caregivers, counsel caregivers on performance issues, administer initial corrective actions, and monitor attendance issues.
• Interview, select, and orient new caregivers.
• Monitor the adherence to EEO/AAP goals and guidelines.
• Prepare work schedules to ensure adequate coverage on all shifts.
• Participate in and support quality improvement projects, outcomes, studies, and research initiatives.
• Assist in orienting new personnel, continuing education, and in-service educational programs.
• Assume responsibilities of the Nurse Manager in their absence.

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing.
• Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN).
• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN).
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross.
• Two years of recent clinical nursing experience.
• Strong demonstrated clinical knowledge and skills.

Physical Requirements

• Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
• Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
• Requires some exposure to communicable disease or bodily fluids.
• Medium Work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Personal Protective Equipment

Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

Schedule

A caregiver in this position works days from 6:00 AM – 4:30 PM, with on-call requirements.