Patient Care Manager- Burn Unit

Summary

The Patient Care Manager manages daily operations of the clinical nursing department ensuring safe and high quality patient care delivery and the effective and efficient utilization of staff, supplies, and equipment. Promotes evidenced based practice and ongoing performance improvement. The Patient Care Manager collaborates with the Nursing Director, physicians and other members of the department’s leadership team.

Required Education

• Bachelor's Degree Nursing

Required Work Experience

• Nursing - 3 years with 1 year of leadership experience

Description

• Leads the achievement of hospital and departmental patient safety goals.
• Coeaches/mentors team leaders with resources and needed support for effective patient care assignments and efficient patient flow.
• Fosters effective communication, collaboration, and accountability between clinical staff, teams, and other departments.
• Ensures environment of care is safe for patients, families, and staff through purposeful rounding.
• Fosters an environment for reporting and appropriate follow-up on occurrences and near misses.
• Hires, onboards, evaluates, trains and develops staff.
• Invests in team members through career mapping and planning for ongoing development/promotion of staff.
• Manages department expenses and resource utilization to achieve budget and productivity goals.
• Aids in timely completion of care, admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Completes ongoing monitoring, data collection, and audits to ensure compliance.
• Leads and participates in performance improvement initiatives proactively identifying issues of risk and safety.

Additional Information

• Work Shift: Day Shift
• Time Type: Full time
• Department: CC013150 2D Burn Center