Clinical Nurse Manager - Med/Surg

OhioHealth • North Miami Beach, FL

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About The Position

The Clinical Nurse Manager ensures that professional nursing personnel and other staff deliver evidence-based practice in designated areas. The manager plans, organizes, directs, and evaluates the unit’s delivery of evidence-based patient care in a cost-effective manner, and provides leadership and clinical management to the health care team. The role integrates OhioHealth’s Nursing Philosophy and its mission, vision, values, goals, and objectives into unit operations.

The position supports ongoing patient care, staffing plans, fiscal management, daily unit operations, personnel development, quality improvement, and collaboration across health care disciplines. It provides clinical leadership through practice, supervision, delegation, and teaching, and supports staff participation in shared governance and professional development. The role also encourages nursing evaluative research and evidence-based practice. As part of a High Reliability Organization, the position requires attention to safety, quality, and efficiency.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Support ongoing patient care and ensure Registered Nurses apply the nursing process and document care in the medical record.
• Address concerns, resolve problems, use data to initiate continuous quality improvement, and participate in process improvement and root cause analysis.
• Assist with planning, assessing, implementing, and evaluating patient care.
• Help plan and coordinate staffing schedules and daily staffing plans based on patient volume and care needs.
• Coordinate nursing care with other health care disciplines across the continuum of care.
• Maintain daily unit operations, including staffing status and patient visits, admissions, discharges, and transfers, while serving as a resource to staff.
• Participate in recruitment, selection, retention, and evaluation of personnel, including performance appraisals and disciplinary procedures.
• Support staff orientation, training, competency, continuing education, professional growth, and maintenance of staff records.
• Assist with unit fiscal management and efficient, cost-effective use of human and material resources and supplies.
• Collaborate with medical staff and interdisciplinary teams and build interdepartmental relationships.
• Identify staff learning needs and contribute to staff development through orientation and continuing education.
• Collect, analyze, and use unit-level data for quality and process improvement.
• Provide leadership and clinical management through clinical practice, supervision, delegation, and teaching as delegated.
• Facilitate staff attendance at meetings and educational programs, support shared decision making, and ensure Registered Nurse participation in unit-level decisions.
• Participate as a voting member of Shared Governance Councils and in hospital committees and decision making.
• Maintain professional competencies through education, leadership programs, and participation or leadership in professional organizations; seek appropriate professional certification.
• 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 and encourage staff participation in nursing evaluative research activities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager