Nurse Manager

What You Will Do

• Strives for highest quality patient and resident care and satisfaction by allowing patients and other customers to guide services.
• Utilizes reports and data from surveys, incident reports, variances, and benchmarks to improve services.
• Demonstrates professional, collaborative, and positive interpersonal relations dealing with internal and external customers.
• Timely and appropriate follow up on occurrence reports and patient complaints (discussion with appropriate team members and submits information to Risk Management as needed).
• Completes Rcare documents in a timely manner.
• Engages in PI activities to include focus groups, PI teams, task forces, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Conducts scheduled face to face, periodic patient surveys.
• Coaches, mentors, and develops employees to ensure high employee morale and professional atmosphere.
• Provides ongoing constructive feedback and evaluation through department and facility rounding, employee meetings, and responding to teachable moments.
• Ensures quality of health assessment services.
• Provides Nursing support in the Admissions department.
• Ensures that nursing care is appropriately documented and follow through occurs. Identified issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Communicates department and RHS goals to team members and employees to include communication trackers.
• Maintains positive physician relationships and assures integration in decision-making.
• Shares the results of the nursing audit report on a regular basis with the Medical Director in an attempt to improve quality care.
• Participates in professional activities, in-service programs, and committee assignments to enhance personal, professional, and institutional advancement for self and employees.
• Completes and submits all required reports within specified time frames.
• Completes established goals and objectives.
• Develops, implements and analyzes productivity standards to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in department.
• Manages staffing of units on a daily basis as well as planning for long term coverage.
• Able to flex time in order to help needs of unit if unplanned coverage shortages occur.
• Works with Supervisors and Staffing Assistant to ensure hospital coverage is maintained 24/7.
• Responsible for Supervision and Nursing coverage if unable to fill or emergencies arise.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree, Nursing (Required)
• 1 year RN Experience (Required)
• 1 year Supervisory experience (Preferred)