Assistant Nurse Manager - Medical Surgical - Mount Sinai Morningside - Full Time (11am-9pm)
About The Position
The Assistant Nurse Manager is a Registered Professional Nurse with broad knowledge and skills who acts as a clinical leader in the daily functioning of the unit and oversees quality patient care delivery, in conjunction with or in the absence of the Clinical Nurse Manager. The role leads nursing practice and supports a patient-centered environment grounded in Relationship Centered Care and Modified Primary Nursing. The Assistant Nurse Manager oversees patient experience, quality and safety, and unit operations. This includes supporting staff, coordinating interdisciplinary care, monitoring compliance and patient-care outcomes, and managing resources, staffing, budgets, and equipment. The role also contributes to professional development, shared decision-making, evidence-based practice, and the growth of nursing staff. The position is full-time at Mount Sinai Morningside, with a stated schedule of 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The salary range is $132,411.29 to $153,840.32 annually; actual salary depends on factors including experience, education, and operational need.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree with a major in nursing is required.
- At least 3 years of acute-care clinical nursing experience.
- Current New York State registration as a licensed registered nurse.
- Relevant clinical competence in the assigned area of nursing practice.
- BSN required from AHA, as stated in the posting.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in nursing or a health-related field preferred.
- Charge Nurse or supervisory experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead nursing practice using Relationship Centered Care and Modified Primary Nursing to promote the patient experience.
- Model Purposeful Hourly Rounding, integrate it into clinical activities, validate staff rounding through observation and patient feedback, and assess staff competency.
- Round on patients daily Monday through Friday and communicate patient-experience and staff-engagement information to staff and the interdisciplinary care team to support action plans.
- Collaborate with physician dyads, escalate concerns, follow up on patient concerns, and provide service recovery.
- Role-model patient-experience practices, including admission welcome, bedside shift report, HELP, AM/PM care, five-minute sit-downs, medication review, discharge wrap-up, and MD/RN unit collaboration.
- Huddle with staff at the start of each shift to identify high-risk patients and communicate concerns to nursing leadership.
- Interpret patient-experience scores and benchmarks, keep staff informed, and encourage evidence-based practices that improve understanding of patients’ perceptions of care.
- Design and support a safe, therapeutic, efficient, patient-centered environment for professional practice.
- Investigate practice or operational variances, participate in root cause analysis, and implement corrective action plans.
- Promote reporting of errors and near misses, lead interdisciplinary quality-improvement work, and review quality and safety metrics and compliance.
- Respond to potential safety hazards or gaps in best practice and correct clinical documentation gaps in institutional information technology systems.
- Lead staff participation in quality, safety, and required compliance initiatives, and ensure staff competency evaluations are maintained.
- Support departmental mission, vision, goals, and objectives and provide administrative and clinical oversight of staffing, support services, collaboration, resources, and financial viability.
- Work with physician dyads and the healthcare team to promote patient care and regulatory standards, maintaining compliance with applicable regulations including NYS DOH and The Joint Commission.
- Oversee 24-hour patient-care delivery, throughput, staffing, and processes to support efficient operations.
- Prepare, implement, and monitor unit budgets, capital equipment allocation, budget variances, overtime, and vacancies in accordance with financial goals.
- Manage established positions and the recruitment and retention of qualified staff.
- Maintain patient and employee confidentiality.
- Evaluate staff performance and mentor, coach, counsel, or discipline staff as needed.
- Monitor the availability and maintenance of nursing equipment and supplies.
- Conduct staff meetings, communicate policy and operational updates, and recognize staff contributions to quality and safety.
- Facilitate organizational change and lead shared decision-making through shared governance, just culture, practice councils, meetings, and initiatives.
- Interpret and implement collective bargaining agreements, and respond to protests of assignment as specified in the agreement.
- Support clinical excellence, organize the care environment, incorporate ethical principles, and foster scholarship, lifelong learning, and innovation.
- Acquire and share knowledge and skills relevant to the role, patient population, clinical specialty, and health-community needs.
- Serve as a professional role model and preceptor for new leadership staff and students, apply research and evidence-based practice, and participate in professional organizations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
