Clinical RN Manager, Urology Surgery, Full Time, First Shift

Qualifications

Education: BSN; current licensure. Professional certification desired.

Responsibilities

• Communication and Relationship Building:
  • Proficient in communication and technologies to address nursing, healthcare and organizational issues appropriate to diverse audiences.
  • Establishes structures and processes to ensure effective information sharing among patients, families/significant others and the healthcare team.
  • Exhibits follow-through on promises and concerns.
  • Demonstrates care about people as individuals with empathy and concern while ensuring that organizational ethics, goals, and objectives are met.
  • Ensures individuals contribution to goals through recognition that is consistent with their personal definition of meaning, fulfillment, development and advancement.
  • Buils credibility with physicians as a champion for patient care, quality and nursing professionalism.
  • Collaborates with medical staff leaders in determining patient care services, equipment, standards, policies and procedures.
  • Fosters relationships with nursing academia to provide clinical experiences and resources for students.
• Quality Improvement:
  • Utilizes and interprets evidence-based data for the establishment of standards, practices, and patient care models for delivery of care.
  • Participates in systems review to improve quality of patient care delivery and to critically evaluate and anticipate risks to patient safety with the aim of preventing patient care errors.
  • Identifies and participates in performance improvement processes that provide outcome measurement.
  • Communicates, educates and involves staff in quality improvement processes.
  • Actively participates in patient satisfaction strategies and service recovery.
  • Safeguards clinical policies and procedures are reviewed and updated in accordance with evidence-based practice.
• Safety:
  • Articulates and takes action to support the JCAHO National Patient Safety Goals.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of internal and external disaster plans and fire drills.
  • Incorporates safety into clinical processes, policies and procedures.
  • Supports a non-punitive environment for reporting errors.
• Resource Management:
  • Maintains current knowledge of patient care delivery systems and innovations.
  • Serves as a change agent when patient care and processes are re-designed.
  • Articulates federal and state regulations.
• Business Skills:
  • Understands healthcare finances as evidenced by preparing and analyzing unit budgets.
  • Correlates the relationship between effective staffing, patient care and budgeting.
  • Identifies educational needs of existing and potential staff.
• Supervision of Staff:
  • Actively recruits and initiates strategies for staff retention.
  • Utilizes corrective action appropriately to mitigate work behavior issues.
  • Coaches staff in development of career plans.
  • Provides visionary thinking and provides input in the staffing issues impacting the patient flow.
  • Delegates tasks appropriately to health care personnel.
  • Creates an environment that recognizes and values differences in staff, physicians, patients and communities.
  • Safeguards decision-making authority of staff is acknowledged and incorporated into patient care delivery.
• Professionalism:
  • Exhibits personal and professional accountability and career planning.
  • Supports and encourages staff to be involved in professional organizations, projects, Clinical Advancement Program, to obtain certification and advanced education.
  • Articulates in the application of ethical principles for patient care and operations.
  • Create and promote a healthy work environment that is conducive to opinion sharing and decreases moral distress.
  • Role model the perspective that patient care is the core of the organization's work.

Qualifications

Location: Cincinnati, OH, United States