Nurse Manager, RN

Responsibilities

• Recruit, hire and train adequate and competent department staff.
• Monitor and evaluate all aspects of the facility medication management.
• Meet with all clients as needed to ensure best practice care, treatment and services are provided.
• Communicate as needed with pertinent outside treatment professionals and in a manner consistent with MNA processes.
• Ensure both admission and discharge processes are maintained to ensure continuity of care with respect to relevant nursing and medical issues.
• Maintain the nursing schedule as per the facility and organization needs including but not limited to managing vacation requests, sick leave, new hire, and additional staffing requirements.
• Ensure quality nursing notes are entered for each patient every shift.
• Organize and facilitate laboratory work per provider orders.
• Ensure that an admission nursing assessment and care plan(s) for each client are complete per program policy.
• Maintain confidentiality of protected health information.
• Provide ongoing training as needed to existing nursing personnel.
• Ensure effective communication between nursing staff and collaborating disciplines.
• Ensure provider order for admission is present upon client admission to the program.
• Organize and document required monthly nursing meeting and other necessary meetings as warranted.
• Manage the maintenance of all nursing related spaces and equipment.
• Ensure proper nursing documentation is entered for each client including but not limited to daily shift notes, weekly updates, treatment plans, treatment plan updates, contact notes and discharge summaries.
• Review and document employee performance 90 days after hire, annually, and as needed per company policy.
• Manage performance improvement/disciplinary action as warranted according to policy and document performance management as required.
• Nurse Manager or designee to attend and present all necessary nursing related information in weekly staffing for all clients.
• Carefully coordinate with providers to ensure that necessary communication and documentation is maintained; specifically relating to the ongoing medical, psychiatric, nursing and medication management of client care.
• Responsible for oversight of facility’s infection control/prevention program.
• Responsible for ensuring that there are on-call nursing staff always designated.
• Receive facility-related calls and come in for uncovered shifts when all other options have been exhausted (per-diem staff, part-time staff, full-time staff and Agency are unavailable).
• Attend Nursing Leadership calls/meetings monthly, and as needed.
• Absorb and assist with insurance issues as needed or designated by Vice President of Nursing Operations, or designee.
• Coordinate and ensure that all admission requirements are completed per organization policy.
• Ensure proper destruction / return of all medications is completed per policy and regulatory standards.
• Maintain adequate inventory and supply of necessary nursing related items in accordance with monthly operational budget.
• Assist with additional program needs as requested by the Vice President of Nursing Operations, Clinical Director or designee.
• Seek opportunities to increase self-knowledge to improve the quality of client care provided.
• Maintain compliance with Joint Commission and State/License regulatory standards and company policy.

Qualifications

• BSN from an accredited school of nursing, and current RN licensure
• Minimum of two (2) years experience
• Previous experience managing nursing operations, either in a residential or hospital eating disorder setting, is preferred
• Excellent communication, patient relations, and time management skills; safety awareness; and the ability to work as a member of a treatment team are all required