Assistant Nurse Manager Emergency

Ascension•Evansville, IN

17d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves supervising, coordinating, and providing leadership for associates in nursing specialty areas such as Emergency/Triage, Adult or Pediatric/NeoNatal Critical Care Departments, and Labor & Delivery/Women & Family. The position requires assessing daily patient access needs, ensuring appropriate patient care, and overseeing all aspects of nursing department operations. The role also includes delivering quality patient care, ensuring the implementation of clinical objectives, and delegating duties to clinical staff based on their skills and abilities. Collaboration with department leadership to ensure processes are up-to-date and followed, participation in quality initiatives, auditing projects, and development of improvement plans are also key aspects. Additionally, the role involves conducting hiring, training, directing, development, and evaluation of staff.

Requirements

BLS Provider obtained within 1 Month (30 days) of hire date or job transfer date required. American Heart Association or American Red Cross Accepted.
Registered Nurse credentialed from the Indiana Board of Nursing obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date required.
Required professional licensure/certification AND 1 year of cumulative job specific experience required.

Nice To Haves

Advanced Life Support preferred. American Heart Association or American Red Cross Accepted.
Certification specializing in Neonatal Resuscitation preferred.
At least 5 years of Emergency nursing experience strongly preferred
Prior leadership experenice strongly preferred
BSN preferrred, or plan in place to receive
National Certification preferred

Responsibilities

Supervise, coordinate, and provide leadership while directing activities of associates in one or more of the following nursing specialty areas: Emergency/Triage, Adult or Pediatric/NeoNatal Critical Care Departments, Labor & Delivery/Women & Family.
Assess daily patient access needs and ensure that appropriate patient care is provided.
Provide oversight involving all aspects of nursing department operations.
Deliver quality patient care and ensure implementation of clinical objectives.
Delegate appropriate duties to clinical staff based on their assessed skills and abilities, maintaining proficiencies related to job functions and process through ongoing monitoring of daily operations.
Collaborate with department leadership to ensure processes are up to date and followed.
Participate with ongoing quality initiatives, auditing projects and development of plans for improvement.
Conduct hiring, training, directing, development and evaluation of staff.