Manager Clinical Invasive Cardiology - Registered Nurse

Responsibilities

• Accountable to provide clinical leadership skills in a knowledgeable, consistent, and continuous manner.
• Promotes shared governance principles and practices and supports staff involvement in nursing practice councils and committees in conjunction with Manager.
• Promotes a culture of teamwork that balances individual initiative with team accomplishments.
• Oversees and manages the growth and expansion of the cardiac catheterization laboratory.
• Affirms clinical quality of all procedures performed in the cath labs, including, but not limited to educating staff in current and new procedures and technology under the direction of the lab Administrative Director.
• Develops and institutes methods to monitor and improve clinical and operational quality output; completing functions for equipment maintenance.
• Assures patient care delivery by providing direct patient care and providing back-up for patient care as needed (i.e., call-outs, difficult cases, short-staffing, and on-call staffing).
• Involves in functions such as: recruitment; hiring; coaching; payroll processing, and administering disciplinary policies.
• Responsible for goal setting, ongoing measurement of goals, administering the recognition program, and all other human resources programs.
• Performs key functions in assuring the department has appropriate equipment and supplies, including researching capital and operational equipment, and making recommendations to Administrative Director and/or Medical Director about purchases.
• Participates in operational budget process; keeps records online items of responsibility; monitors and follows-up to resolve inaccuracies.
• Collaborates in the gathering and assessment of data to rectify and justify operational expenses and revenues.
• Participates in department, division, and Danbury Hospital' operational strategy planning and development as it relates to the cath labs, including working with other sections to develop plans to maximize operational efficiencies by developing, growing, and maintaining high quality cardiovascular services.
• Supports Danbury Hospital initiatives outside of the department, including, but not limited to campaigns for charitable organizations and health fairs.
• Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• ACLS, BLS, RN required.
• Experience performing interventional cardiovascular procedures required.
• Minimum Experience: five years.
• Basic computer skills (MS Windows); data entry and retrieval.
• RCIS (Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist) desired.