RN - Inpatient Nursing Manager - Advanced Acute Care Medical

About the Role

Manages nursing personnel and daily operational activities for assigned units or departments. Leads the Nursing team with responsibility for all operational functions, working in partnership with the Medical Director and Physician Liaison to provide administrative and medical staff support. Responsible for developing and initiating improvements in the organization and delivery of high-quality, cost-effective patient care, including nursing clinical practice, budgetary personnel activities, regulatory compliance, and support of the Electronic Medical Record.

This position is based in BP7, an advanced acute care unit focusing on medical patients with a broad range of diagnoses, including those requiring surgical and other procedures. Geisinger Medical Center is ANCC Magnet Recognition® designated, reflecting the highest standards in nursing practice and quality patient care.

Responsibilities

• Employs transformational leadership concepts in the development, implementation, and evaluation of shared governance councils and maintenance of magnet culture.
• Facilitates, incorporates, and promotes evidence-based practice into care.
• Facilitates continuing education and research opportunities for employees, self, and the community to support growth.
• Utilizes team-building concepts to effectively empower team members by serving as a mentor, teacher, and coach.
• Ensures the patient safety improvement and management program is given high priority and supports the program.
• Enhances skills of team members such as decision-making, problem-solving, conflict resolution, human resource management, and communication.
• Facilitates development, maintenance, and success of unit teams.
• Provides feedback to the team regarding performance and job-related issues.
• Ensures adequate staffing and competent care delivery.
• Develops, implements, and revises nursing retention strategies on an ongoing basis.
• Develops positive and proactive employee relations.
• Incorporates structural empowerment through shared governance, fostering professional development and involvement in the workplace and community.
• Integrates the Professional Practice model with the mission, vision, philosophy, and values of the organization.
• Encourages new knowledge, innovations, and improvements using evidence-based practice and research.
• Focuses on empirical outcomes related to clinical practice.
• Demonstrates accountability for continuously improving the work unit, department, division, and system by developing performance expectations and goals that focus on service, quality, and cost.
• Communicates a clear description of performance expectations and goals to employees, encouraging and supporting their participation and accountability.
• Establishes and adjusts worked hour statistics for assigned units based on national benchmarks.
• Develops, implements, and achieves budgets that attain unit, division, and system goals.
• Reviews reports to monitor revenue and expense-impacting activities.
• Develops and implements operational contingency plans proactively and when indicators change.
• Develops and promotes service standards that foster a customer-sensitive environment using a proactive approach.
• Measures performance against standards and seeks team commitment to exceed standards.
• Facilitates staff’s management of patient and customer-related issues in a timely manner.
• Assists in dealing with risk management issues to mitigate risk and exposure.
• Assists in the development and implementation of the department Performance Improvement plan.
• Ensures all incidents, serious events, and sentinel events are reported to Performance Improvement and addressed in a timely manner.
• Proactively reviews unit and system risk exposure to develop educational activities for employees and associates that will reduce liability.
• Coordinates and communicates safety standards and processes and holds staff accountable.
• Assists and maintains regulatory compliance incorporating the Tracer Methodology.
• Works closely with other departments and services and administration to maximize quality patient outcomes.
• Collaborates with Administration and Medical Director on a regular basis.
• Facilitates issue resolution and enhancement of the work environment through collaboration with other departments.
• Facilitates collaboration between members of the interdisciplinary teams via IDT or Boost and Continuum of Care Rounds.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (Required).
• Minimum of 3 years of experience managing people, processes, or projects (Required).
• Licensed Registered Nurse (RN) in the State of Pennsylvania.
• Basic Life Support Certification.

Schedule

1.0 FTE (40 hours per week), Days.

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits for full-time and part-time positions from day one, including vision, dental, and domestic partner coverage.
• Collaborative and collegial work environment with a focus on diversity and inclusion.