Intensive Care Units Inpatient Nurse Manager - Full Time

About the role

The Manager, Nursing position at UHealth Tower focuses on promoting and restoring patients' health through day-to-day management and long-term planning of the patient care area. This role involves directing and developing staff, collaborating with physicians and multi-disciplinary professional staffs, and providing physical and psychological support for patients and their friends and families.

Responsibilities

• Enforces professional staff behaviors that facilitate positive relationships among colleagues, physicians, administrators, and other hospital personnel.
• Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.
• Maintains nursing operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.
• Affirms quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care, enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements, and to other governing agency regulations, and measuring health outcomes against standards.
• Maintains nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training nurses and auxiliary staff.
• Completes patient care requirements by assigning nursing and staff.
• Resolves patient needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Maintains a safe and clean working environment by designing and implementing related procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Accounts for the collection of data to ensure performance improvement and optimal customer service standards.
• Ensures all staff meet mandatory continuing education requirements and yearly hospital based competencies.
• Provides insight on the unit(s) operations to nursing leadership to assist in the development of strategic planning and departmental expansion.
• Establishes and continuously assesses the effectiveness of the internal controls within the unit and compliance with University policies and procedures.
• Ensures employees are trained on controls within the function and on University policy and procedures.

Qualifications

• Education: Graduate from an accredited school of nursing with a Bachelor’s degree (BSN).
• Certification and Licensing: Valid Florida Registered Nurse License, ACLS, and BLS certification from the American Heart Association required.
• Experience: Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
• Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes: Ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships, ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form, proficiency in computer software (i.e. Microsoft Office), knowledge of business and management principles, ability to effectively plan, delegate and/or supervise the work of others, ability to lead, motivate, develop and train others.

Benefits

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.