NURSE MANAGER (ACUTE HEALTH SERVICES) - ICU/ITCU | Full-Time Days (25460)

Job Duties

• Works with Director of Nursing to develop and implement goals of assigned units and to evaluate progress toward attainment of goals.
• Acts as liaison between nursing administration and medical staff.
• Using available utilization data, works with other Nurse Managers and DON to develop staffing plan and schedules for units to maintain appropriate staffing levels and staffing mix.
• Communicates staffing plan to Nurse Supervisor; ensures adequate staff coverage by reviewing vacation and holiday schedules; approves overtime as necessary and authorizes coverage for absent staff.
• Selects, hires and supervises staff in area of responsibility; initiates disciplinary action, including terminations; carries out annual performance appraisal of employees recommending promotions, raises, etc.
• Ensures safe and professional patient care by enforcing and monitoring compliance to professional standards, identifying clinical and educational needs of staff; recommends methods for improving staff competence and patient care and assists in developing, implementing and evaluating programs.
• Through meetings, in-services or other established means of communication, provides information to departmental staff for therapeutic and effective patient care management; identifies and puts into place appropriate monitors of patient care delivery.
• Periodically reviews admission and patient management protocols, discharge criteria and related policies and procedures for compliance with requirements of regulatory agencies; recommends and implements changes as required, making sure information is available to staff in area of responsibility; monitors compliance and reviews with DON and other Nurse Managers.
• Oversees the quality assurance/quality improvement programs in area of responsibility, identifying patient care issues, developing QA monitors and ensuring that follow-up actions are implemented.
• Provides information required for reports on utilization, monitors, credentialing and scheduling as necessary to be compliant with regulatory agency reporting and monitor requirements; prepares reports on service and utilization as required.
• Assists DON in developing annual budget; monitors budget performance throughout the year to ensure units operate within budget guidelines; works with administration to ensure most efficient and cost-effective allocation and use of resources.

Qualifications

• Two Years Of Supervisory Experience Required.
• Knowledge of Continuous Quality Improvement principles
• Clinical nursing skills and expertise.
• Good organizational skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Speaks, reads and writes English to the extent required by the position.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing required; Master’s degree preferred.
• Graduation from accredited school of nursing.
• Current NJ licensure as RN.
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification required.
• American Heart Association Advanced Life Support certification required.
• IV certification required.