Manger Emergency Center

Scotland Health Care System in Laurinburg, North Carolina•Laurinburg, NC

About The Position

A. Practice: Applies systematic processes at the program or service level to improve care. •Demonstrates expertise in the development and implementation of nursing standards for the management of specific client population. Consults with discipline-specific experts for the interpretation and application of other professional standards. •Conducts effective staff conferences; accepts responsibility for meetings/conferences/unit activities, maintains direction and follows up with decided plan that improves nursing care. •Leads/delegates group activities to solve problems or accomplish a specific task. •Evaluate health care delivery by identifying problems, seeking resolutions, implementing change, assessing progress and evaluating outcome in collaboration with appropriate personnel. •Offers expertise to peers and other health care professionals. •Age Specific Competency: Staff members will have knowledge of human growth and development through the life span of the patient and can meet the needs of and provide the care to these patients. The age categories to be included are: Neonatal/ Infant 0 – 11 months; Pediatric 1 – 2 years; Adolescence 13 – 17 years; Young Adult/ Adult 18 – 64 years; Adult/ Middle-Aged 65 – 79; Geriatric 80 + years B. Quality of Care: Uses continuous performance improvement techniques to systematically evaluate and improve quality of care. •Coordinates management, teaching, consultation, and support to individuals and their families. •Systematically analyzes clinical practice through data collection, interpretation, and reporting of findings with appropriate recommendations. •Assures that customers are treated in a professional manner with tact, courtesy, and respect. C. Performance: Uses professional standards of care and practice as the basis for the evaluation of program or service practice. •Assumes leadership role in developing Nursing philosophy, purpose, goals, and objectives for staff development programs that are congruent with Nursing philosophy and SHCS mission and vision. •Demonstrates ability to work effectively with patients, significant others, professional and support personnel who provide patient care and support services. •Demonstrates the ability to initiate and lead interdisciplinary groups to establish relationships with professional and/or other health-related groups within the community. •Participates in the development of Nursing policies; supports and assists in the implementation of these policies. D. Education: Acquires and maintains current knowledge in area of practice to effectively meet program or service performance. •Ensure staff’s competency by assuming responsibility for providing education (through on-the-spot teaching, coaching, orientation, and in-services) and/or arranging for learning activities and documentation of such education. •Facilitates open exchange of ideas between peers, management, and staff; creatively responds to and evaluates suggestions for improvement. •Coordinates patient/family teaching and/or counseling for specific patients. E. Collegiality: Assists colleagues in evaluation of their performance, and shares knowledge and expertise with other health care providers within the community. Makes significant and sustained contributions to health care and the institution. •Participates within the community, performing nursing/health-related activities which contribute to the positive image of nursing service and promotes community relationships. F. Ethics: Serves as a teacher and consultant for staff concerning the processes to be followed in identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues affecting individual and/or groups of clients. •Maintains ethical practice by assuming a leadership role in addressing ethical issues related to patient care. •Promotes respect for patients’ and staff’s privacy, and confidentiality of patient/staff information. G. Collaboration: Improves client outcomes at the program or service level using interdisciplinary process to identify, analyze, and resolve care issues. •Collaborate with peers, physicians, and other health care providers in management and coordination of health care needs of the client. •Develop effective relationships with the interdisciplinary team and individual staff, administration, other services; facilitate delivery of a high level of quality of care. •Promotes community relationships through participation in community activities, such as presentation, committee/task force involvement, and/or advisory activities. H. Research: Promotes research utilization to improve patient care. •Apply research findings as appropriate to improve patient care and educational programs. •Promotes and assists others in the application of findings from research and/or studies. •Facilitates and promotes systematic methods of problem-solving. I. Resource Utilization: Contributes to the management of program or service’s resources (financial, human, material, and informational) to ensure safe, efficacious, and cost-effective care. 1.Promotes cost-effective use of resources and safety of care delivery. ?Adjust staffing as indicated ?Monitors supply usage ?Assists director in managing and implementing budgetary adjustments •Documents monitor staff’s time and leave usage and appropriately manages individual issues and trends. •Contributes actively to evaluation of clinical products, space, or equipment to assure well-informed management decisions.

Responsibilities

Applies systematic processes at the program or service level to improve care.
Demonstrates expertise in the development and implementation of nursing standards for the management of specific client population.
Consults with discipline-specific experts for the interpretation and application of other professional standards.
Conducts effective staff conferences; accepts responsibility for meetings/conferences/unit activities, maintains direction and follows up with decided plan that improves nursing care.
Leads/delegates group activities to solve problems or accomplish a specific task.
Evaluate health care delivery by identifying problems, seeking resolutions, implementing change, assessing progress and evaluating outcome in collaboration with appropriate personnel.
Offers expertise to peers and other health care professionals.
Coordinates management, teaching, consultation, and support to individuals and their families.
Systematically analyzes clinical practice through data collection, interpretation, and reporting of findings with appropriate recommendations.
Assures that customers are treated in a professional manner with tact, courtesy, and respect.
Assumes leadership role in developing Nursing philosophy, purpose, goals, and objectives for staff development programs that are congruent with Nursing philosophy and SHCS mission and vision.
Demonstrates ability to work effectively with patients, significant others, professional and support personnel who provide patient care and support services.
Demonstrates the ability to initiate and lead interdisciplinary groups to establish relationships with professional and/or other health-related groups within the community.
Participates in the development of Nursing policies; supports and assists in the implementation of these policies.
Ensure staff’s competency by assuming responsibility for providing education (through on-the-spot teaching, coaching, orientation, and in-services) and/or arranging for learning activities and documentation of such education.
Facilitates open exchange of ideas between peers, management, and staff; creatively responds to and evaluates suggestions for improvement.
Coordinates patient/family teaching and/or counseling for specific patients.
Assists colleagues in evaluation of their performance, and shares knowledge and expertise with other health care providers within the community.
Maintains ethical practice by assuming a leadership role in addressing ethical issues related to patient care.
Promotes respect for patients’ and staff’s privacy, and confidentiality of patient/staff information.
Collaborate with peers, physicians, and other health care providers in management and coordination of health care needs of the client.
Develop effective relationships with the interdisciplinary team and individual staff, administration, other services; facilitate delivery of a high level of quality of care.
Promotes community relationships through participation in community activities, such as presentation, committee/task force involvement, and/or advisory activities.
Apply research findings as appropriate to improve patient care and educational programs.
Promotes and assists others in the application of findings from research and/or studies.
Facilitates and promotes systematic methods of problem-solving.
Promotes cost-effective use of resources and safety of care delivery.
Adjust staffing as indicated
Monitors supply usage
Assists director in managing and implementing budgetary adjustments
Documents monitor staff’s time and leave usage and appropriately manages individual issues and trends.
Contributes actively to evaluation of clinical products, space, or equipment to assure well-informed management decisions.