Clinical Nurse Manager – Nocturnal Shift

OhioHealth•Shelby Charter Township, NY

About The Position

The Clinical Nurse Manager ensures professional nursing personnel and other staff deliver evidence-based practice in designated areas. The role plans, organizes, directs, and evaluates the unit’s delivery of evidence-based patient care in a cost-effective manner, providing leadership and clinical management to the health care team. The position integrates OhioHealth’s Nursing Philosophy, mission, vision, values, goals, and objectives into unit operations. It is based in the Emergency Department and works the night shift for 40 scheduled hours per week. The role supports patient care delivery, daily unit operations, staffing, personnel management, fiscal stewardship, professional development, leadership, quality improvement, and research/evidence-based practice. As part of a High Reliability Organization, the position requires a focus on safety, quality, and efficiency. Responsibilities may change and are not exhaustive.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association.
Registered Nurse (RN) licensure from the Ohio Board of Nursing.
2–3 years of nursing experience in related or similar areas of responsibility.
Previous leadership experience, such as precepting, a charge role, clinical lead role, mentoring, department committee leadership, or facilitating meetings.
Specialized knowledge of the nursing process and clinical skills.
Demonstrated interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and nursing practice standards skills.
Computer application skills appropriate to the area of responsibility.

Nice To Haves

Advanced training in specialty areas may be required.
Appropriate professional certification is encouraged.

Responsibilities

Assist the Manager in ensuring ongoing patient care delivery, application of the nursing process, and documentation in medical records; address concerns and resolve problems.
Use data to initiate continuous quality improvement, participate in process improvement and root cause analysis, and promote safe nursing practice.
Coordinate nursing care with other health care disciplines and help integrate services across the health care continuum.
Assist the Manager in planning, assessing, implementing, and evaluating patient care.
Assist with staffing schedules, staff allocation, and daily staffing plans based on patient volume and care needs.
Maintain daily unit operations, including staffing status and patient visits, admissions, discharges, and transfers; serve as a resource to unit staff.
Participate in recruitment, selection, retention, evaluation, performance appraisals, disciplinary procedures, orientation, training, competency, continuing education, and staff professional development; maintain staff records.
Assist with unit fiscal management and use human and material resources and supplies efficiently and cost-effectively; assist with developing and implementing services.
Collaborate with medical staff and interdisciplinary colleagues and support cooperative clinical management and interdepartmental relationships.
Identify staff learning needs and contribute to staff development through orientation and continuing education.
Participate in collecting, analyzing, and using data for unit quality and process improvement.
Provide clinical leadership and management through practice, supervision, delegation, and teaching as delegated by the Manager or Director.
Facilitate staff attendance at meetings and educational programs, support shared decision making, ensure registered nurse participation in unit-level decisions, and participate as a voting member of Shared Governance Councils.
Participate in hospital committees and decision making; continue professional development and maintain professional competencies.
Help assess and address diversity, cultural competency, ethics, and changing societal needs; ensure culturally competent care and a healthy, safe work environment.
Serve as a patient safety coach.
Support evidence-based practice by participating in and encouraging staff involvement in nursing evaluative research at the department level.