Nurse Manager Med/Tele and Telemetry Units

Essential Functions

• Communicates with Director on a regular basis regarding day-to-day operational issues.
• Collaborates with care team to develop individualized plan of care participating in Interdisciplinary Care Planning rounds.
• Collaborates with Director in completing performance evaluations.
• Rounds daily on every inpatient utilizing Studer principles.
• Coaches staff in providing an optimal patient experience utilizing hourly rounding, AIDET, ACT, use of white boards, clinical care, etc.
• Ensures appropriate staffing. Assists in the daily adjustments to staffing required to have appropriate nurse/patient ratios.
• Affords assistance in responding to investigations, follow-up and re-training.
• Provides first line customer service response and service recovery.
• Might assist with assigning and/or completing duties listed on charge nurse report sheet, including crash cart checks, narcotic counts and discrepancy resolution, etc.
• Affords assistance in orienting new employees. Works closely with Nursing Residency / Student Coordinator to ensure students and new graduates have positive orientation.
• Affords on-call responsibilities as assigned by director.
• Reviews HCAHPS data and collaborates with director and patient advocate on performance improvement.
• Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.
• Adopts and implements innovative evidence-based nursing practices to improve quality and safety of patient care.
• Supports nursing staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.
• Affords a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patient, and families.

Physical Requirements

• Sit, walk, stand, use your hands, reach, stoop, talk, hear, and smell.
• Lift or exert energy up to 50 pounds 25% of the time, up to 100 pounds 50% of the time, and more than 100 pounds 25% of the time.
• Maintain close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less), color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors) and distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen move up/down or left/right) and depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances).

Mental Requirements

• Possesses the ability to read and interpret business or safety manuals, clinical or technical procedures or regulations.
• Writes reports, correspondence, and/or manuals; effectively present information and respond to questions from groups, patients, families, other employees, and medical staff.
• Performs math functions (add, subtract, multiply and divide), and performs more complex math functions to include calculating percentages, averages, volume, ratio, and interpreting graphs – using numbers, money, and units of measure.
• Defines problems, collects data, establishes facts, and draws valid conclusions.
• Deals with concrete and abstract concepts and interpret verbal, nonverbal, and written instructions.

Population Served

• Cultural And Age Specific Competencies

Minimum Qualifications

• Nurse Manager I: Bachelor of Nursing (BSN) degree preferred. For any staff with ADN, BSN completion within 2 years of hire is strongly encouraged. Three (3) years’ experience in a clinical specialty required. One year of supervisory/ leadership experience and certification in a clinical specialty preferred. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) from the American Heart Association required within 6 months of hire.
• Nurse Manager II: Bachelor’s degree in nursing is required. Must have a current license in the state of South Carolina as a registered nurse. Three (3) years’ experience in a clinical specialty required. One year of supervisory/ leadership experience and certification in a clinical specialty preferred. Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers certification is required. ACLS certification is required within 6 months of hire.