Manager Dialysis Clinical Operations (Registered Nurse)

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta • GA

97d

About The Position

Facilitates and manages ongoing department operations, including quality and data management, regulatory compliance, customer experience, fiscal, and human resources processes. Supports and ensures comprehensive cardiac patient care services are provided that support the integrity of the family system and patient care team. Proactively supports efforts that ensure delivery of safe dialysis patient care and services and promote a safe environment at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

Requirements

• 2 years of experience in management/administration
• 2 years of clinical nursing experience
• 1 year of dialysis patient care experience in a similar size, similar scope hospital
• Bachelor of Science in nursing
• Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the single State of Georgia or Multi-State through the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact
• Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Professional Nursing Certification deemed by department required upon one year of hire.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in nursing, business, management, or other healthcare related field
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) or Pediatric Emergency Assessment
• Acute and outpatient clinical dialysis experience.
• Pediatrics, cardiac, neonatal, or critical care experience
• Dialysis-specific management experience

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates competencies that incorporate age-specific guidelines, including N = Neonate (less than 30 days), I = Infant (30 days to 1 year), EC = Early Childhood (1-5 years), LC = Late Childhood (5-13 years), A = Adolescent (13-17 years), AD = Adult, and ALL = all ages.
• Maintains an understanding of clinical pathophysiology as relates to improving competency and care.
• Acts as a clinical resource for patient population in area.
• Maintains ability to assist with clinical care.
• Attends educational opportunities of minimum 18 hours job-related education per year.
• Fosters professional development of others via constructive performance appraisals and professional development plans.
• Establishes sound Shared Leadership council structure for individual unit.
• Fosters collegial relationships between team members, other departments, and medical staff members.
• Demonstrates fiscal accountability in budget preparation, monthly analysis, and compliance to budget guidelines.
• Establishes departmental goals and leads unit to achieve them.
• Manages staffing effectiveness.
• Rounds proactively throughout unit to identify and react to escalating concerns of potential or actual conflict, seeking resolution, and incorporating service recovery.
• Develops and maintains relationships with leadership in other departments to ensure appropriate resources are accessible for clinicians.
• Executes implementation plans for system and unit changes.
• Engages departmental leaders to achieve unit goals and projects.
• Focuses time and attention on key retention activities.
• Coaches staff to improve performance.
• Understands My PATH program and educates team and staff as applicable.
• Responsible for all aspects of managing and leading a team including: interviewing, hiring, training, developing, directing work and processes, managing performance, recognizing, and rewarding employees.
• Provides oversight for development of quality measures and quality controls for unit.
• Ensures compliance with all regulatory requirements, including Joint Commission and CMS.
• Leads unit in creation of staffing effectiveness monitors.
• Oversees follow-up to occurrence notification system reports.
• Participates in departmental assessment of national recognition data collection processes.
• Allocates resources to work toward care standardization and performance improvement in accordance with evidence-based practice.
• Partner with Medical Director to oversee the development, implementation, and oversight for the Dialysis QAPI Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees