Assistant Nurse Manager Med Surg Nights

AdventHealth•Palm Coast, FL

49d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for overseeing the continual operation of a specified nursing unit to ensure high-quality patient care and services. This position demonstrates critical thinking, creativity, and resource management to achieve quality performance, positive employee relations, and compliance with hospital guidelines. This role involves coaching, mentoring, and leading a professional and technical team in delivering services to the patient population. Additionally, this position monitors the quality of care delivered to patients, administers medications and treatments as prescribed, and ensures effective stewardship of resources. Responsibilities for this role include acting as a change agent, implementing necessary changes in collaboration with the Manager/Director, and maintaining respectful relationships with patients, families, physicians, and other contacts.

Requirements

Associate or Diploma in Nursing from an accredited school
Current Florida Registered Nurse license
Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
Prior leadership experience

Responsibilities

Lead the Employees Has a working knowledge of performance expectations for all employees on the unit.
Monitors performance of the staff and reports findings to the nurse manager or takes corrective action for improvement as appropriate.
Uses independent judgment to make recommendations to supervisor/manager regarding: Actively participates in the interview process / application selection.
Performance Improvement - Demonstrates familiarity with the performance improvement model of the organization.
Support performance improvement activities on the unit through problem identification, assessment, data gathering, change implementation, and evaluation of outcomes.
Critical Thinking Utilizes critical thinking skills in the performance of their duties as an ANM: Supports the planning, organizing, and leading of the unit through application of critical thinking skills.
Utilizes data driven decision making, incorporating evidence into the decision process.
Appropriately uses problem solving skills.
Business of Healthcare Delivery Utilizes a working knowledge of health care economics as it applies to the delivery of patient care.
Is involved in unit-department based budgeting and support of the budget.
Maintains staffing and scheduling, and resource utilization within budgeted targets for the unit.