Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM)-Acute Care, Operating Room, FT, Day

Prisma Health•Greenville, SC

About The Position

The Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) works in collaboration with the Nurse Manager to supervise staff and unit operations while providing direct patient care. The role ensures safe, quality care and maintenance of professional nursing standards. The ANM remains highly visible to patients, families, and staff, primarily during off-shifts, and resolves problems as needed. More than 50% of the role is spent providing direct patient care. The position also includes administrative, human resources, payroll, quality improvement, and unit coordination activities. The ANM oversees patient-care activities in a charge nurse capacity, supports patient experience and staff development, and helps ensure compliance with quality, regulatory, safety, environmental, and infection-control standards. In collaboration with the Nurse Manager, the ANM contributes to human resources activities, budget and resource management, unit projects, and achievement of unit, department, and organizational goals. This is a supervisor job that may include direct supervision and performance-management responsibilities, but it is not considered a member of management staff. The position is based at Greenville Memorial Hospital in the Operating Room and is a day-shift role.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Nursing.
Two years of RN experience in a related area of nursing.
Current RN compact/multistate license recognized by the NCSBN Compact State, or an RN license to practice in the state where the team member works.
If substituting a nursing diploma or Associate's Degree in Nursing for the BSN, sign a Memorandum of Understanding agreeing to enroll in an accredited BSN or MSN program within one year and obtain a BSN or MSN within four years.

Nice To Haves

Management or supervisory experience.
Certification in a nursing specialty.

Responsibilities

Oversee patient-care activities in a charge nurse capacity, including staff allocation and scheduling, patient assignments, rounds, resolution of patient-care issues, admissions, discharges and transfers, transitions between shifts, and interdepartmental coordination.
Provide direct patient care consistent with charge nurse and clinical registered nurse responsibilities, and maintain required clinical competencies.
Support patient experience expectations through role modeling, staff mentoring and coaching, patient rounds, service recovery, and problem resolution.
Support continuing staff development, clinical problem-solving and decision-making skills, new staff orientation and training, and maintenance of staff competency, certification, and licensure records.
Serve as a professional role model, coach, and resource for employees.
Perform administrative and quality-management activities to meet quality expectations and regulatory requirements; ensure compliance with departmental, organizational, safety, regulatory, environmental, and infection-control standards.
Maintain records and documentation related to regulatory and environmental standards, quality audits, and unit record-keeping; assist the Nurse Manager in preparing for Joint Commission visits.
In collaboration with the Nurse Manager, participate in interviewing, hiring, evaluating, coaching, counseling, staff rounding, and performance management; may assist with payroll processing.
Assist the Nurse Manager in maintaining the unit budget through appropriate allocation and utilization of resources.
Share accountability with the Nurse Manager for unit, department, and organizational goal achievement.
Assist in planning, directing, and evaluating short- and long-term unit projects; develop, submit, implement, and evaluate performance objectives for self and the unit.
Work with healthcare team members on activities designed to improve patient-care outcomes.
Participate in Nursing and/or hospital committees and work groups as needed.
Perform other duties as assigned.