Nurse Manager

Methodist Children's Behavioral Hospital•Jonesboro, AR

52d•Onsite

About The Position

The Nurse Manager will perform administrative support to the staff nurses, Behavioral Instructors, patients, and families associated with United Methodist Behavioral Hospital. This role involves supervision and evaluation of staff nurses and Behavioral Instructors, maintaining staff compliance with unit schedule of activities, and ensuring the maintenance of the therapeutic environment through proper use of the Teaching-Family model of care and implementation of the treatment plan. The Nurse Manager will also be responsible for fielding and directing potential patient admissions and referrals, performing admission intake assessments, auditing medication administration records, and maintaining an adequate number of Behavioral Instructors. Collaboration with the treatment team and communication with the Director of Nursing are key aspects of this role, as is orienting and training employees in hospital policies and procedures. Approximately 20% of the Nurse Manager’s duties will be allocated to a supervisory role.

Requirements

Must be currently licensed by the State of Arkansas to practice as a registered nurse.
Must be qualified by education or experience in healthcare management.
Must have at least 2 years nursing experience as a registered nurse.
Requires the strength and stamina to perform clinical duties.
Must be physically able to lift 50 pounds and hold for one minute.
Must be physically capable to receive verbal and written directions.
Must be physically capable of sitting and standing for several hours at a time.
Must have good auditory, visual and olfactory ability.
Ability to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls.
Must be able to maintain effective audio, visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, reading and writing, and operating office equipment and other treatment equipment.
Must be able to use a telephone to communicate verbally and a computer to communicate through written means, to review information and enter/retrieve data, to see and read characters on a computer screen, chart or other treatment items.
Must be willing and able to work with all patients of Methodist Family Health.
Flu vaccination is mandatory and required for all positions (subject only to qualified exemptions).

Responsibilities

Maintains a therapeutic milieu and a safe environment by continual assessment.
Engages the patient in therapeutic communications (one-on-one).
Completes the bio-psychosocial physical assessment, develops an age specific and developmentally appropriate plan of care at admission.
Assesses patient/family education and discharge needs, with the interdisciplinary team.
Develops and leads interdisciplinary care conferences in collaboration with the health care team.
Communicates plan of care to other members of the health care team.
Documents assessments, interventions and responses to care.
Utilizes leadership skills through mentoring, preempting, teaching, delegating and coaching members of the health care team.
Develops, organizes and facilitates group sessions.
Utilizes positive interpersonal skills, conflict management, problem solving and crisis management critical thinking to promote development of the health care team.
Assisting with Quality Improvement process as needed.
Complies with the department’s in-service policy.
Responsible for keeping all employment requirements current (i.e. TB, CPR, CPI, etc.).
Attends mandatory nursing meetings.
Verifies and interprets pathology reports and consults etc. and alerts the physician as to changes in the patient’s condition and activates the plan of care.
Carries out physician orders regarding diet, medication and treatment.
Obtains physician orders and authorizes implementation of seclusion/restraints according to hospital policy.
Critically evaluates the clinical status of patients using the nursing process.
Can demonstrate, supervise, and assess competency for waived testing or for phlebotomy.
Utilizes Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) techniques.
Care of the patient related to the DSMV behavior diagnoses.
Knowledge of all psychotropic medications.
Provide education to patients/families based on their identified needs and limitations, such as, communication, interpersonal and social skills, as well as, the basic principles of physical health.
Provide opportunities for patients and families to question, discuss and explore their feelings about prescribed therapies/interventions/diagnoses.
Documents in progress notes accurate and detailed descriptions of patients' behaviors relative to treatment plan and diagnoses.
Supervision and evaluation of staff nurses and Behavioral Instructors employed by UMBH.
Maintaining staff compliance with unit schedule of activities.
Insures maintenance of the therapeutic environment by staff through proper use of the Teaching-Family model of care and implementation of the treatment plan.
Fielding and directing potential patient admissions and referrals to the facility.
Performing admission intake assessments and making appropriate referrals.
Auditing medication administration records for all nursing units and making appropriate decisions to rectify any discrepancies.
Maintaining adequate number of Behavioral Instructors to provide quality care and maintain therapeutic environment.
Collaborating with all members of the treatment team in making decisions regarding appropriate patient care.
Communicating directly with the Director of Nursing in addressing needs or concerns.
Orienting and training all applicable employees in current hospital policies and procedures.
Providing coverage for Behavioral Instructors’ call-ins for day shift if call received during night shift.
Other duties as assigned by the Director of Nursing or inherited within the scope of the nursing field.