Description -External
OR Nurse Manager
All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:
Schedule: Mon- Fri 40 hours
Shift : Days
Location: 501 Redmond Road, Rome, GA 30165
The role you’ll contribute:
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Human Resource Management – Monitors performance of the staff and takes corrective action for improvement as appropriate. Uses independent judgment to:
- Select applicant for interview and hire and ensures appropriate orientation.
- In collaboration with Human Resources Department, suspend or invoke other discipline for work infractions, performance deficiencies and conduct violations by exercising supervisory authority.
- Evaluate supervised employees, recommend promotion of supervised employees and recommend bonuses and awarding of other discretionary rewards to supervised employees.
- In collaboration with the Human Resources Department and Director of Surgical Services, terminate supervised employees, where appropriate.
- Assign employees to particular duties or activities or to authorize and assign overtime to employees where appropriate.
- Adjust/resolution of complaints, concerns and problems of supervised employees regarding work assignments, hours of work overtime scheduling, and other work-related matters.
2. Financial Management – Understands health care economics, public policy and finance as it pertains to the delivery of patient care.
- Understands the broad impact of reimbursement on the delivery of patient care services, including but not limited to Medicare, Managed care, Medicaid, third-party providers, challenges to current health care policies and key legislative initiatives at the local, state, and national level.
- In coordination with the Director of Surgical Services develops, analyzes and interprets unit-department based budgeting. Maintains staffing and scheduling and resource utilization within budgeted targets for the unit.
- Fosters patient, family, staff, and physician satisfaction. Understands the impact of dissatisfaction on the business goals of the unit.
- In coordination with the Director of Surgical Services, is involved in capital budgeting; may be required to produce a cost benefit analysis to justify requested equipment.
- Utilizes information systems to support business decisions.
3. Performance Improvement – Demonstrates familiarity with the performance improvement model of the organization.
- Champions performance improvement activities on the unit through problem identification, assessment, data gathering, change implementation and evaluation of outcomes.
- Is actively involved in all aspects of patient safety on the unit including but not limited to: sentinel event monitoring and reporting, root cause analysis, TJC (regulatory agency) requirements, incident reporting, medication safety policies and procedures.
- Ensures workplace safety for the employees and demonstrates knowledge of regulatory requirements for workplace safety, i.e., CMS, OSHA, TJC, HFAP etc.
- Supports continual process improvement by sponsoring and/or participating in the activities.
- Ensures that practice changes, as a result of performance improvement activities, are implemented.
4. Critical Thinking/Technology – Utilizes critical-thinking skills in the performance of their duties. Demonstrates an understanding of technology utilized in the organization.
- Plans, organizes and leads the unit through application of critical-thinking skills
- Utilizes data-driven decision making, incorporating evidence into the decision process
- Employs strong problem-solving skills and utilizes defined models for problem solving.
- Thinks of the system as a whole when analyzing data and making decisions
- Is able to utilize critical-thinking skills in persuading others
- Ensures resources and talent are available to support staff in utilization of the supply and medication management systems of the unit
- Appropriately integrates technology into the day-to-day care of the patient and leverages technology to improve patient care outcomes
- Uses basic computer skills such as word processing, Excel spreadsheet data management, internet/email and skills to access evidence-based information.
5. Leadership and Clinical Practice Knowledge – Provides leadership for the effective and efficient operation of the Operating Room. Ensures clinical practice is of the highest quality.
- Leads the employees in a manner which develops the employee to their optimal level of performance
- Mentors all employees to reach full potential employees
- Ensures appropriate application of clinical knowledge in the care of all patients
- Plans for delivery of care to the patient and evaluates the outcomes of care delivered in relation to clinical effectiveness
- Sets clear expectations in the delivery of clinical practice
- Ensures adherence to models of care established for clinical practice
- Fosters inclusion of support services in the delivery of care
- Ensures that the patient experience is the focus of all services
- Assists the staff, nursing and support staff, to find a sense of meaning and purpose in the delivery of patient-focused care
- Establishes and maintains a communication plan that disseminates key messages and decisions to all involved in the care of a patient.
- Is accessible on their assigned units in a manner that allows for effective and efficient operational involvement
- Is culturally competent and ensures that staff is able to deliver culturally competent care
- Utilizes evidence-based practice as a foundation for patient care delivery. Fosters shared decision making based on evidence-based practice.
- Maintains a customer-oriented leadership style. Remembers that patients are the reason for our business.
- Holds self and staff accountable for delivery of care and resulting patient outcomes.
6. Communication and Relationship Building – Utilizes relationship in influencing behaviors on the unit
- Utilizes active listening, feedback, inquiry and validation in communicating with others in relation to meeting the goals of the unit.
- Understands the functions of a group process. Is able to facilitate effective groups for the delivery of nursing care and for collaboration with other disciplines.
- Supports academic relationships through welcoming students to the unit and assisting in their training process.
- Promotes, nurtures and maintains interdisciplinary relationships in order to ensure patient-focused care and better patient outcomes
- Maintains appropriate collaborative relationship with patient, families, staff, vendors, physicians, other disciplines and other contacts.
- Works collaboratively to define acceptable behaviors from staff, physicians and other disciplines within the organization and adheres to these acceptable behaviors
7. Professionalism – Demonstrates a professional persona in their work
- Acts as a role model for professional behavior and professional appearance.
- Maintains the confidentiality of employees, patients, administration and medical staff information with no infractions.
- Is involved in at least one professional organization and encourages others to become involved.
- Accepts and profits from direction and counseling.
- Refuses to participate in unethical procedures and assumes the responsibility of informing the appropriate authority of noted incompetence or unethical behavior.
- Utilizes available education materials, programs, literature, and resource personnel for career development.
- Accepts responsibility for knowing current changes in policy, protocols and procedures through the hospital communication systems.
- Supports quality standards, goals and initiatives set by the department and applicable professional organizations.
- Attends hospital-based committees as assigned by the Director of Surgical Services.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:
- Demonstrates Human Resource Management competencies
- Demonstrates Financial Management competencies
- Demonstrates the ability to implement and lead Performance Improvement initiatives on
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