Nurse manager - ambulatory (ortho) ft - days - augusta, ga

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Work Shift Various (United States of America)

Job Summary:

The nurse manager is a registered professional nurse who provides leadership and management of a specific unit(s) or service through the effective use of knowledge and skills to promote the creation of a center of excellence for staff recruitment and retention and clinical and business outcomes. The nurse manager is the standard bearer on his/her unit and holds all participants on his/her unit accountable for the delivery of care and services through effective communication; observation; and the management and measurement of specific interventions/practices and their associated outcomes.

Responsibilities include:

• Clinical, financial, human and material resources deployment and associated outcomes or goals.
• The Nurse Manager serves as a chief retention and safety officer and ensures that safety and quality standards are upheld or met by effective use of data and technology to make decisions and proactively mitigates unnecessary risks for his/her area of responsibility.
• The Nurse Manager creates and ensures a desirable, safe work environment that enables the organization to meet or exceed its mission and goals.
• He/she models the way to foster communication and collaboration with physicians, staff, patients and other departments.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Resources and Support

Engages staff in decision making via shared governance processes and partners with others to promote relationship-based care delivery systems that support patient centered care and service excellence while effectively providing leadership and management for a specific business/clinical unit(s). Possesses and uses good negotiation and mediation skills.

Interdisciplinary Teamwork and Collaboration

Effectively communicates to diverse audiences on nursing, health care and organizational issues which includes the ability to set standards and hold leaders and staff accountable for performance standards. Proactively establishes a healthy work place by reducing or resolving unnecessary conflict (when necessary, partnering with Human Resources), and promotes achievement of positive team dynamics.

Exemplary Practice and Outcomes

Promote staff competency in clinical care delivery. Holds self and staff to the highest professional standards and ethics ensuring corporate compliance standards etc. are met by leaders and staff.

Professional Development

Possess necessary Knowledge about health care financing and uses this knowledge and skill to ensure the effective management of human and material resources; designing and implementing systems to manage and measure outcomes to achieve expected business and clinical goals and objectives for self, staff and unit performance develops operational budget and manages it to target level performance or better.

Evidence Based Practice and Research

Promotes Evidence based practice, nursing research and performance improvement in nursing. Participates in activities such as value analysis as part of the decision making process in evaluating patient care products.

Performs other duties as assigned. Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Required Minimum Education:

Bachelors Nursing Masters Nursing-Preferred

Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s):

All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated. BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor or BLS - Basic Life Support or ARC-BLS - Amer Red Cross Basic Life Support RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact or RN - Reg Nurse (Single State)

Additional License(s) and Certification(s):

Required Minimum Experience: Minimum 2 years of progressive experience in nursing management Required

Required Minimum Skills:

Should possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and relationship building; a knowledge of the health care environment; leadership that includes such skills as successfully implementing and managing a change process ability to use systems thinking- and inspire, coach others to be successful; model the way for professional practice; professionalism and teamwork/collaboration for self/department/medical staff; and possess necessary business skills to manage human and material resources.

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