Assistant Nurse Manager - Respiratory - F/T Days

Responsibilities

• Participate with recruitment and retention strategies.
• Absorb and communicate unit huddles and leader rounding with employees.
• Collaborate with the Nurse Manager to create unit goals reflective of both hospital and organizational missions.
• Engage in or lead evidence-based practice projects or research initiatives.
• Participate or lead shared governance committees or councils at the unit or hospital level.
• Resolve conflicts and facilitate constructive resolutions.
• Conduct and complete employee corrective action plans/counseling as needed.
• Adhere to HMH's Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.
• Prepare and conduct periodic performance evaluations for assigned staff members.
• Contribute to and monitor the unit orientation process for all roles.
• Model and contribute to employee recognition practices.
• Model cultural competence, social justice, and fairness, and utilize generational diversity to foster effective work groups.
• Escalate nursing labor/management issues as necessary.

Financial Management

• Collaborate with the Nurse Manager for efficient fiscal management of departmental activities.
• Participate in Payroll, Staff Scheduling, and daily staffing needs.
• Assist in managing the department budget.
• Monitor business intelligence for the unit.
• Maximize care efficiency and throughput.
• Understand the relationship between value-based purchasing and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement.
• Monitor unit staffing productivity and flex staff accordingly.

Quality and Safety/Performance Improvement

• Collaborate with the Nurse Manager to optimize the patient and family experience of care.
• Lead multidisciplinary rounds.
• Ensure unit-based performance improvement monitoring is completed, trended, and reported internally and externally.
• Lead or participate in quality improvement projects.
• Lead or conduct root cause analysis investigations.
• Assure unit regulatory compliance.
• Participate in staff education and competency development.
• Serve as a role model for others and mentor new employees and new Charge RNs.

General Job Functions

• Interpret, support, and communicate policies, standards, and procedures.
• Serve as a role model for staff in all aspects of nursing.
• Identify and assist in implementing cost containment measures by identifying alternative measures of product utilization within the department.
• Serve on-call based on unit requirements.
• Assume special projects as assigned.
• Perform other duties as assigned by leadership.

Qualifications

• A minimum of an associate in Nursing or diploma of Nursing degree.
• BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire (applies to team members hired on or after February 2025).
• Minimum 3 years recent nursing experience in respective specialty or equivalent.
• The ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs, a strong sense of accountability for improving the lives of our patients and their caregivers, an exceptional focus on teamwork, dedication to ongoing education, and the ability and passion to deliver the highest quality of care based on a strong sense of patient focus are all required.