Manager Patient Care (PCM)

This position is designated as safety sensitive and cannot be filled by a candidate who is a current user of medical marijuana.

About the Role

The Patient Care Manager manages daily operations of the clinical nursing department ensuring safe and high-quality patient care delivery and the effective and efficient utilization of staff, supplies, and equipment. Promotes evidence-based practice and ongoing performance improvement. The Patient Care Manager collaborates with the Nursing Director, physicians, and other members of the department’s leadership team.

Responsibilities

• Leads the achievement of hospital and departmental patient safety goals.
• Coaches/mentors team leaders with resources and needed support for effective patient care assignments and efficient patient flow.
• Fosters effective communication, collaboration, and accountability between clinical staff, teams, and other departments.
• Ensures environment of care is safe for patients, families, and staff through purposeful rounding.
• Fosters an environment for reporting and appropriate follow-up on occurrences and near misses.
• Hires, onboards, evaluates, trains, and develops staff.
• Invests in team members through career mapping and planning for ongoing development/promotion of staff.
• Manages department expenses and resource utilization to achieve budget and productivity goals.
• Assists with timely completion of care, admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Completes ongoing monitoring, data collection, and audits to ensure compliance.
• Leads and participates in performance improvement initiatives proactively identifying issues of risk and safety.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (Required)
• Master's Degree in Nursing (Recommended)
• 3 years of nursing experience with 1 year of leadership experience (Required)
• Certification specific to patient population; exception for dialysis manager: Dialysis Certification (CDN) required within one (1) year of hire OR within six (6) months of meeting certification exam eligibility (Required)
• Registered Nurse (RN) license - Arkansas or Compact State (Required)

Benefits

$10,000 sign-on bonus for this full-time position.

Schedule

Variable shift, full time.