Nurse Manager - ICU/Cath Lab

Presbyterian Healthcare Services • Elk City, OK

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Assists the Department Director in planning, directing and coordinating the operational, financial and personnel activities of the designated departments. Provides clinical and operational leadership for areas assigned.

Requirements

• Maintains current professional licensure
• Nurse Managers hired or rehired on/after July 2012, without BSN are hired under the contingency that they enroll and begin their BSN courses within 12 months of hire or rehire and they must complete their BSN program within 48 months of hire or rehire.
• Current BLS required
• State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License or Graduate Nurse Permit required
• BSN required
• Degree from accredited academic nursing program (If a program is under conditional status, approval may be granted by system CNO)

Nice To Haves

• Current ACLS required
• Current PALS required
• Current NRP required
• Fetal monitoring required
• Permanent charge ACLS required
• Chemotherapy certification required in Oncology
• TNCC (Espanola)
• ENPC (Espanola)
• STABLE required

Responsibilities

• Foundational knowledge of the master competencies
• Ability to manage and direct team and unit operations
• Ability to achieve results
• Manages the processes of recruitment, interviewing, and selection of candidates
• Overseeing the outcomes of orientation processes and retention of new hires. Addresses areas of opportunity to meet organizational goals.
• Facilitates and holds accountabilities to supporting an environment maintaining compliance with state and federal labor laws.
• Drives the monitoring and interventions to achieve results including quality indicators/targets, utilization of performance tools to improve processes and outcomes, optimizing patient safety, maintaining a continuous regulatory ready environment, and optimizes communication between all work groups.
• Uses analytical, data-driven techniques for decision-making processes that will structure work models and support evidence-based practice
• Proficient in using computer based skills/applications, clinical based technologies supporting patient care including electronic medical record, medication management, integrates technology into patient care processes and to support work systems. Support environment and staffing to provide a super-user environment for enhancing technical learning into at the point of care performance.
• Contributes to or drives work plans to achieve optimal patient care and organizational results to the point of care, written reports of outcomes, presentation to key business audiences.
• Has understanding of nursing and care processes supporting clinical care practice in service area(s).
• Drives financial components of unit operations including budget creation, monitoring, analyzing, report variances in areas of responsibility. Responsible for achieving established target.
• Manages staff performance including evaluations, goal setting, development plans; ability to achieve staff engagement and satisfaction, mentoring. Participation in succession planning; models professional standards and behaviors. Seeks input from key clinical leadership staff.
• Provides leadership at the point of care by applying communication skills that optimize active listening, inquiry; use effective dialogue, conflict management techniques, negotiation, and mediation skills for assigned areas. Maintains open, collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and healthcare partners.
• Maintains and holds staff accountable for an environment that upholds the cultural/population specific standards for those served; maintain an environment that upholds a diverse workforce.
• Advocates and supports the process of shared governance and shared decision-making.
• Role models the value of continuous learning including academic advancement, continuing education, and maintains currency on current care practices. Actively involved in performing annual self-assessment and on-going development action plan.
• Assesses career planning/goals and develops/implements continuous learning and activities to support goal path.
• Actively reflects on continuous learning activities, utilizes action-learning techniques to identify and act on areas of strength and opportunities.
• Incorporates and role models integrity, ability to maneuver ambiguity, seeks and acts on the potential within self and others, supports and fosters C.A.R.E.S. behaviors, supports a just culture.
• Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care and supports, fosters, and holds self and staff answerable to C.A. R. E.S. behaviors (Continuous learning, accountability, respect/respond, environmental safety, and superior outcomes).
• Within the patient care environment manages staff performance and accountabilities to incorporate (1) Clinical judgment and action, (2) Patient advocacy, (3) Caring practices, (4) Collaboration within the interprofessional team, (5) Systems thinking, (6) Response to diversity, (7) Facilitation of learning, and (8) Clinical Inquiry.

Benefits

• Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
• Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
• Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
• Malpractice liability insurance
• Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
• EPIC electronic charting system
• free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges and more

What This Job Offers

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