PATIENT CARE MANAGER (RN), Inpatient Dialysis

Responsibilities

• Ensures the effective delivery of competent, compassionate, and efficient patient care by planning, organizing, and directing the nursing services of unit(s).
• Coordinates nursing activities with those of other services or disciplines.
• Communicates in a clear and effective manner to enhance team effectiveness, manage conflicts, engage employees and interdisciplinary colleagues in unit activities and performance changes.
• Collaborates with others within the unit and with all hospital departments and disciplines to enhance problem solving, decision making and performance improvement.
• Plans and forecasts the department budget by calculating required FTES, planning annual budgets, interpreting payroll and other key fiscal reports, projecting workload as well as monitoring and enhancing productivity.
• Performs variance analysis by interpreting financial performance and identifying key drivers.
• Identifies unit/capital budget needs in collaboration with physician and nursing colleagues.
• Plans and implements staff scheduling, position controls and attendance control procedures.
• Directs the personnel management of the employees assigned to the department consistent with state and federal labor laws, collective bargaining agreements, and nursing service and hospital philosophy, goals and policy.
• Ensures that new staff is interviewed, hired, trained, oriented, precepted and evaluated.
• Prepares and conducts employee performance appraisals.
• Approves transfers, promotions and other decisions affecting employee pay and status.
• Participates in initiating and documenting disciplinary actions and responding to grievances.
• Affords twenty four (24) hour responsibility and accountability for the operation of the assigned patient care unit(s), service(s), staff, and facilities.
• Plans, organizes and directs short and long term departmental activities in accordance with hospital goals and accrediting organization standards.
• Provides leadership and direction for the staff in the patient care unit(s) while supporting and actualizing the goals of the department, division, service, and hospital.
• Functions as a resource to staff and interdisciplinary team members and interdepartmentally, consults on nursing care and professional nursing practice.
• Assumes responsibility for accessing and utilizing appropriate data in order to monitor unit operations.
• Supports the quality framework, which includes both clinical and service quality indicators.
• Creates an environment of patient care that is safe, effective, patient centered, timely, efficient and equitable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Nursing or Related field from an accredited college or university.
• Three years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience.