Nurse Manager - Ambulatory - Neuro Sciences

Job Profile Summary

This role focuses on providing professional and nonprofessional nursing care services in accordance with physician orders. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Nursing Leadership duties:

• Controls, directs, and participates in the activities of the organization through a hierarchy of managers and supervisors.
• Long-term strategic planning, determining the policies of the organization, and allocating its resources and making decisions regarding organization growth and diversification to accomplish entity's vision.
• A management role that supervises employees focusing on tactical, operational activities within a specified area, with the majority of time spent overseeing area of responsibility, planning, prioritizing and/or directing the responsibilities of employees.
• Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and/or indirect reports.
• A role that manages experienced professionals who exercise latitude and independence in assignments. Responsibilities typically include: policy and strategy implementation for short-term results (1 year or less), problems faced are difficult to moderately complex, and influences others outside of own job area regarding policies, practices and procedures.

Job Overview

This position plans, organizes, and oversees daily clinical and administrative operations of designated unit/program or service. Assumes accountability and responsibility for translating the philosophy, objectives, policies, and procedures and nursing/patient care services into effective action. Prepares staff schedules, requests, and allocates resources and facilitates coordination of care/services to meet patient care and operational requirements. Develops and sustains an environment that promotes excellence in clinical practice and customer satisfaction, while striving for optimal efficiency, productivity, and utilization of all resources. Works cooperatively within department and other services to create a system of quality health care.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN).
• Registered Nurse (RN) license.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Three (3) years of nursing leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Nursing (MSN).
• Five (5) years of nursing leadership experience.
• Nursing specialty certification.

Duties and Responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of work and are not intended to be an all-inclusive list. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.

• Serves as a high visibility leader, role model and professional mentor; represents a positive image of the unit/practice area to the organization.
• Ensures excellence in quality, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures patient care delivery is safe, of high quality and is cost effective.
• Effectively defines and communicates a vision of excellence for the unit/practice area.
• Creates opportunities for multidisciplinary forums in order to solve problems and facilitate planning.
• Maintains an environment that promotes excellence in clinical practice and customer satisfaction, while striving for optimal efficiency, productivity, and utilization of all resources.
• Works cooperatively within department and other services to create a system of quality health care.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged, extensive, or considerable standing/walking.
• Lifts, positions, pushes and/or transfers patients and equipment.
• Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching.
• Frequent exposure to hazardous chemicals, sick patients, bodily substances, noise and possible exposure to radiation, lasers, electric shock, etc.
• Regularly exposed to the risk of bloodborne diseases and other transmissible infections.
• Requires manual dexterity using fine hand manipulation to reports and computer equipment.
• Hearing and visual acuity sufficient to perform examinations, observe patients, read monitors and documents, and hear audible equipment alarms.
• May have contact with hazardous materials.

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to apply the skills and knowledge necessary to provide care to patients throughout the life span, with consideration of aging processes, human development stages and cultural patterns in each step of the care process.
• Management and interpersonal skills necessary to provide leadership to a variety of employees; to maintain a variety of internal and external contacts; and to interact effectively with patients, families; physicians and other departments.
• Analytical abilities/critical thinking skills to identify and resolve operational problems.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities.
• Ability to work effectively under stressful conditions.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Ability to adapt in a changing environment.
• Ability to collect, track and trend data in order to identify opportunities for performance improvement.
• Clinical competence in nursing practice.
• Ability to work collaboratively with nurses, physicians and administrative colleagues.
• Ability to navigate complex electronic clinical and administrative information systems and applications.