Inpatient Nursing Manager- ICU

About the Role

Manages nursing personnel and daily operational activities for assigned units or departments. Leads the Nursing team with responsibility for all operational functions, working in partnership with the Medical Director and Physician Liaison to provide administrative and medical staff support. Responsible for developing and initiating improvements in the organization and delivery of high-quality, cost-effective patient care, as well as overseeing nursing clinical practice, budgetary personnel activities, regulatory compliance, and continuing support of the Electronic Medical Record.

Responsibilities

• Employs transformational leadership concepts in the development, implementation, and evaluation of shared governance councils and maintenance of magnet culture.
• Facilitates, incorporates, and promotes evidence-based practice into care.
• Facilitates continuing education and research opportunities for employees, self, and community to support growth.
• Utilizes team-building concepts to effectively empower team members by serving as a mentor, teacher, and coach.
• Ensures the patient safety improvement and management program is given high priority.
• Enhances skills of team members such as decision-making, problem-solving, conflict resolution, human resource management, and communication.
• Facilitates development, maintenance, and success of unit teams.
• Provides feedback to the team regarding performance and job-related issues.
• Ensures adequate staffing and competent care delivery.
• Develops, implements, and revises nursing retention strategies on an ongoing basis.
• Develops positive and proactive employee relations.
• Incorporates structural empowerment through shared governance, fostering professional development and involvement in the workplace and community.
• Integrates the Professional Practice model with the mission, vision, philosophy, and values of the organization.
• Encourages new knowledge, innovations, and improvements using evidence-based practice and research.
• Focuses on empirical outcomes related to clinical practice.
• Demonstrates accountability for continuously improving the work unit, department, division, and system by developing performance expectations and goals that focus on service, quality, and cost.
• Communicates a clear description of performance expectations and goals to employees, encouraging and supporting their participation and accountability.
• Establishes and adjusts worked hour statistics for assigned units based on national benchmarks.
• Develops, implements, and achieves budgets which attain unit, division, and system goals.
• Reviews reports to monitor revenue and expense-impacting activities.
• Develops and implements operational contingency plans proactively and when indicators change.
• Develops and promotes service standards that foster a customer-sensitive environment, using a proactive approach.
• Measures performance against standards and seeks team commitment to exceed standards.
• Facilitates staff’s management of patients and customer-related issues in a timely manner.
• Assists in dealing with risk management issues to mitigate risk and exposure.
• Assists in the development and implementation of the department Performance Improvement plan.
• Ensures all incidents, serious events, and sentinel events are reported to Performance Improvement and addressed in a timely manner.
• Proactively reviews the units and systems risk exposure to develop educational activities for employees and associates that will reduce liability.
• Coordinates and communicates safety standards and processes and holds staff accountable.
• Assists and maintains regulatory compliance incorporating the Tracer Methodology.
• Works closely with other departments and services and administration to maximize quality patient outcomes.
• Collaborates with Administration and Medical Director on a regular basis.
• Facilitates issue resolution and enhancement of the work environment through collaboration with other departments.
• Facilitates collaboration between members of the interdisciplinary teams via IDT or Boost and Continuum of Care Rounds.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) (Required).
• Minimum of 3 years of experience managing people, processes, or projects (Required).
• Licensed Registered Nurse (RN) in the State of Pennsylvania.
• Basic Life Support Certification.

Benefits

• Full benefits (medical, dental, and vision) starting on day one.
• Three medical plan choices, including an expanded network for out-of-area employees and dependents.
• Pre-tax savings plans with healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) and a health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution.
• Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan that includes automatic Geisinger contributions.
• Generous paid time off (PTO) plan that allows you to accrue time quickly.
• Up to $5,000 in tuition reimbursement per calendar year.
• MyHealth Rewards wellness program to improve your health while earning a financial incentive.
• Family-friendly support including adoption and fertility assistance, parental leave pay, military leave pay, and a free Care.com membership with discounted backup care for loved ones.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with referrals for childcare, eldercare, and pet care; access to free legal guidance, mental health visits, work-life support, digital self-help tools, and more.
• Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, identity theft protection, universal life, and pet and legal insurance.

Schedule

Hours include 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM; will flex to the needs of the business.