Assistant Nurse Manager - Stroke Neuro Medical

About the role

The Manager-Assistant Nurse (ANM) is a participating member of the Nursing Leadership Team. They are responsible for eliminating barriers that impede operations between departments and facilities. The ANM provides leadership to assigned department professional nursing staff, participates in budget development and implementation, fosters positive relationships with physicians, other nurse leaders, and associates, and supports clinical and service programs.

Responsibilities

• Participates in the achievement of capital and operating budget objectives within areas of responsibility.
• Fosters positive relationships with physicians, other nurse leaders, and associates of assigned department.
• Supports the advancement of the professional practice environment by collaborating in setting the NGHS nursing strategic direction and focusing on activities that support nursing initiatives.
• Ensures nursing unit(s) is in a state of continued regulatory readiness by adhering to all appropriate legal and ethical requirements necessary to maintain hospital accreditation and corporate compliance.
• Coordinates activities of patient care team on the unit and actively monitors the quality of care delivered during their shift.
• Conducts daily rounds on the unit to identify and address patient/family/physician concerns.
• Interfaces with patients and families to ensure that care is consistent with their expectations and the organization's quality and customer service expectations.
• Assesses, coaches and evaluates staff’s level of clinical practice.
• Ensures that nurses are current in competency, assessments, licensure, certifications, and other annual training.
• Actively works with his/her leadership team to coach staff, recommends and design education and training to meet the clinical needs of the patients/staff served by the unit.
• Routinely interacts with physician customers. Supports his/her nursing staff in maintaining effective and positive interactions with physicians.
• Captures and coordinates communication between unit team members and attending physicians or clinical ancillary staff to ensure appropriateness of care and outcome planning for the patients on their unit(s).
• Coordinates activities by scheduling work assignments, setting priorities, and directing the work of subordinate employees.
• Attends daily bed huddles during shift and facilitates decision-making with respect to patient flow.
• Maintains regular ongoing contact/communication with all levels of nursing staff.
• Responsible for working with leadership team to identify employee strengths, development needs, skills, interpersonal and personal style and relate those to the business needs and challenges faced by the team.
• Actively supports and promotes a professional practice model that encourages staff participation in the development of clinical standards, and is collaborative, collegial and utilizes best practice research.
• Ensures compliance with established hospital policies, procedures, objectives, quality controls and regulatory standards and requirements.
• Oversees completion of unit specific administrative tasks (i.e., PI audits, code cart).
• Knowledgeable of organizational policies with respect to work rules and discipline and is responsible for providing progressive discipline to employee when indicated.
• Provides direct patient care as needed and is responsible for assessing, planning, and evaluating patients; remains informed about the status of all patient during the shift.
• Proactively addresses potential customer service issues.
• Engages directly with physician and staff to ensure adherence to evidence-based practice standards as wells as organizational priorities to meet pillar metrics associated with safety-quality, service excellence, employee and physician engagement and throughput.
• Monitors staff performance/competency and provides feedback in timely manner.
• Affirms and assesses the effectiveness of the staffing plan/assignments taking into consideration the acuity of the patient and the budgeted labor standards.
• Conducts/completes environment of care assessment.
• Successfully completes mentoring class. Assists with mentoring of Registered Nurses when other mentor resources have been assigned. May mentor more as desired.

Qualifications

• Licensure or other certifications: Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia. National certification in either a clinical or leadership specialty within two (2) years of hire.
• Educational Requirements: Associates Degree. Must be enrolled in a BSN program within 6 months of hire. Must complete BSN within three years of hire into the position.
• Minimum Experience: Minimum of 5 years RN experience and has an ADN degree OR minimum of 3 years RN experience and has a BSN or higher degree.
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