Manager- Patient Care Services
About the role
The nurse manager practices in the framework of the mission, vision and values of ECU Health and maintains 24-hour accountability for unit operations. The manager is a clinical leader with focus on producing excellent patient outcomes, patient and family engagement, workforce management/development and clinical efficiency. The nurse manager is the front line leader who partners with physicians and manages staff and resources to promote safe, timely, efficient, effective and patient focused unit operations.
Responsibilities
- Participates in daily unit safety huddle and assures that a safety huddle is conducted at each change of shift.
- Develops and implements an effective ongoing program to measure, assess and improve quality of care and patient safety.
- Trends quality and patient safety outcomes and process measures.
- Leads improvement efforts based on data.
- Reviews and follows up on safety intelligence data.
- Coaches and develops unit based teams to achieve top quartile performance amongst peer comparisons.
- Builds staff accountability for nursing practice expectations including bundle compliance, return to care practices (Bedside Shift Report, Hourly rounding and use of the communication Boards) and adoption of best practice and evidence based protocols.
- Assures that care is delivered according to the VMC standard.
- Identifies variances in expected performance and implements plans to address variances.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher – or – High school diploma (or equivalent) plus five to seven years of related experience required.
- License as a Registered Nurse, must maintain licensure with the North Carolina Board of Nursing.
- Three to four years related experience.
Pay Range
$108,160.00 – $148,720.00
About ECU Health Medical Center
ECU Health Medical Center, one of four academic medical centers in North Carolina, is the 974-bed flagship hospital for ECU Health and serves as the primary teaching hospital for The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health Medical Center has achieved Magnet® designation twice and provides acute and intermediate care, rehabilitation and outpatient health services to a 29-county region that is home to more than 1.4 million people.