RN Clinical Manager Telemetry Overflow Full Time Nights

Overview

At Tenet, your nursing skills can make a pivotal difference for the patients we treat and the communities we serve. You'll work in an enriching, rewarding environment where you'll have the resources to surpass your patients' needs. For our part, we'll give you ample tools and support – like competitive benefits, personalized mentorship, enhanced flexibility, and more – so you can take your health career where you always knew you could.

Success Profile

• Innovative
• Advocate
• Collaborative
• Person-Centered
• Resourceful
• Critical Thinker

Job Description

Overview

Desert Regional Medical Center is a 385-bed acute-care hospital classified as a stroke receiving center and Level I Trauma Center with an innovative, patient-centered and evidence-based Rehabilitation Services Department. Our compassionate team provides a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, including acute care rehabilitation, joint replacement & spinal surgery, neurosurgery, ICU, Telemetry, step-down care, skilled nursing, as well as outpatient therapy, hand and lymphedema clinics.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership of the telemetry staff related to care of the telemetry, stroke, bariatric patients and associated interventional cardiology protocols and medication.
• Obtains information and interpret information in terms of the patient’s needs.
• Demonstrates knowledge of growth and development.
• Understands the range of treatment needed as appropriate to the ages of the patients served.
• Participates in the management of human resources through assisting, evaluating, counseling, and hiring of staff.
• Assists and edits payroll reports
• Ensures that a current criteria-based job performance standard and applicable competencies exist for each member of the staff.
• Ensures that performance evaluations are completed in a timely fashion for both annual and probationary evaluations.
• Facilitates the appropriate completion and timely submission of human resource documentation.
• Appropriately counsels and disciplines staff in a timely manner.
• Interviews and hires staff.
• Covers timely attendance at hospital orientation and all mandatory continuing education programs for employees.
• Regularly attends nursing leadership meetings and takes personal responsibility for the quality and integrity of nursing administration
• Regularly participates and completes special projects
• Maintains current records on all employees at unit level to include yearly certification, current licensure, evidence of continuing education and compliance with unit competencies.
• Maintains an open communication with staff on organization, national health care and professional issues.
• Promotes sound staffing practices by optimizing the utilization of human resources keeping in line with established bench marking and acuity data.
• Utilizes individual patient classification system which predicts nursing care requirements by shift, and maintains documentation to discern trends and patterns of nursing care delivery by shift and staff mix in the daily staffing of the unit.
• Affirms and assists in the implementation of staff development and cross-training as needed.
• Supports all hospital programs to include, but not limited to, risk management, safety, infection control.
• Performs the scheduling function.
• Facilitates unit work flow and teamwork.
• Assures timely compliance with labor hour benchmark per unit of service.
• Acts to facilitate interdepartmental interactions.
• Demonstrates effective problem-solving.
• Assists in the completion of standards of care, policies, and procedures are appropriate and current and that they have been reviewed with all staff members.
• Assists in the review and revise of policies and procedures as necessary, but not less than every three years.
• Assists in the development and accomplishment of department long and short-term goals.
• Assists in the controls and monitor of supply costs to achieve flexed budgeted costs on a quarterly basis.
• Identifies areas of cost savings through labor and supply utilization efficiencies and communicates suggestions to Director.
• Assists and edits payroll reports
• Maintains personal current knowledge and expertise in the specialty field of the department, and of regulatory agencies.
• Assists in the development of a department strategic plan.
• Facilitates and supports the clinical strategic plan.
• Facilitates and supports the organizational strategic plan.
• Integrates PI into daily operations.
• Utilizes PI philosophy in developing strategic directions.
• Assists in the collection of data for unit-based improvement, and other ongoing reviews which serve as quality trending.
• Obtains feedback on a regular basis from others within own and other departments. Collaborates with Director on mechanisms for improvement.
• Communicates self and staff concerns through proper written and verbal channels and utilizes problem-solving skills to suggest mechanism for correction.
• Assists and cooperates with other members of the hospital staff in a courteous and efficient manner to actively contribute to overall hospital goals and objectives.
• Acts as a team member within the department and within the organization.
• Demonstrates effective, positive, and responsible relationships with patients, families, medical director & key physicians, employees, management & administration, and related outside agencies.
• Affirms timely follow-up of patient, family, staff; and physician concerns after consultation with the Director and communicates outcome to Director.

Qualifications

• Current California RN License
• Associate’s degree in Nursing
• Current American Heart Association BLS Certification (maintain current at all times)
• Current American Heart Association ACLS Certification (maintain current at all times)
• Must successfully complete EKG test within the first 30 days of hire
• Minimum of 3 years’ clinical experience
• Demonstrated clinical competence and leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to present self in positive and professional manner
• Preferred:
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Current American Heart Association PALS
• Previous management experience.
• TNCC/ENPC Certification