Nurse Manager Assistant Med Surg
2 weeks ago
The Nurse Manager Assistant in Med Surg plays a crucial role in supporting the nurse manager by overseeing daily nursing activities and ensuring efficient patient care. Responsibilities include resource allocation, employee evaluations, and budget management, with a focus on maintaining high standards of care while optimizing department operations. The position requires strong leadership, communication skills, and a comprehensive understanding of clinical practices to manage a team and achieve departmental goals effectively.
Job Description:
This position assists a nurse manager in managing daily nursing activities within a nursing department. The role involves providing leadership and performing management functions delegated by the nurse manager, such as resource allocation, ensuring a safe working environment, and optimizing patient care. The position is accountable for developing departmental structure, processes, and outcome standards, typically for one unit. The job duties are distributed as follows: 60% Tactical (day-to-day activities e.g. staffing and equipment availability), 35% Operational (budget management, supply acquisition, and employee performance evaluations), and 5% Strategic (developing goals to meet the Intermountain/Regional Strategic Plan and holding employees accountable to these goals).Assistant Managers must be in a department that has >100 caregivers and must have direct reports.
Nurse Managers must receive approval if circumstances warrant an assistant manager, but do not meet defined criteria.
Essential Functions
- This role encompasses a range of responsibilities that supports a nurse manager. This role is characterized by a higher level of accountability, which includes conducting employee evaluations, participating in the hiring process, and managing budgetary responsibilities.
- Assists and supports the nurse manager in the creation or maintenance of an environment in which clinical nursing is practiced.
- Contributes through delegation by the nurse manager to the strategic planning process, day-to-day operations, standards of care, interdepartmental disciplines, and attainment of organizational goals.
- Advocates for and allocates available resources to promote efficient, effective, safe and compassionate nursing care based on current standards of practice.
- Facilitates collaborative decision-making and upholds professional independence by contributing departmental perspectives to executive decisions and ensuring staff are updated on activities at the executive level.
- Assists with development, implementation and management of annual capital/operating and personnel (FTE) budget for unit. Uses resources effectively and manages expenses to meet financial goals of department.
- Models and fosters an environment of professionalism and employee engagement on the unit.
- Coordinates with nurse manager to ensure enough competent staff to meet patient care needs, which includes hiring, orientation, retention, and employee satisfaction.
- As delegated, ensures that new skill training and ongoing competency verification is completed annually by providing mentorship and professional educational opportunities.
- Evaluates staff competency through use of performance reviews and peer reviews.
- Coordinates performance and compliance with patient safety initiatives, federal, state and other regulatory bodies such as Joint Commission, OSHA, CMS, DOPL, and other unit specific accrediting and certifying bodies.
- Assists with the achievement of clinical program goals and may implement action plans to improve performance as delegated.
- Effectively uses professional and organizational best practices to ensure the delivery of quality patient care.
- Facilitates use of resources by nursing staff such as nurse practitioners, other expanded role RNs, and other specialty roles.
- In conjunction with Nurse Manager, monitors and improves patient satisfaction utilizing available service metrics and national benchmarks to develop and implement action plans to achieve desired outcomes.
- Acts as a role model for staff in every aspect of patient care delivery.
- Partners with physicians at the unit level to achieve clinical, operational, and service goals.
- Supports the Nurse Manager in overseeing, organizing, and facilitating the activities of student nurses.
- Supports staff participation in outside community organizations such as volunteer health clinics, health fairs and advisory boards for not-for-profit organizations.
Skills
- Leadership
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Financial acumen
- Clinical knowledge
- Resource management
- Patient safety
- Mentorship
- Community outreach
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution (degree will be verified).
- Current Nursing License to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers.
- Leadership/supervisory experience.
- Must complete Intermountain's leadership training and development courses within one year of accepting this leadership position.
- 2 years clinical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the area of oversight.
- Specialty Certification
Physical Requirements:
Physical Requirements
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
- Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
- Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.)
- May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
- For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.
Location:
St James HospitalWork City:
ButteWork State:
MontanaScheduled Weekly Hours:
40The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$43.67 - $67.41We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
Learn more about our comprehensive benefits packages for our Idaho, Nevada, and Utah based caregivers, and for our Colorado, Montana, and Kansas based caregivers; and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
All positions subject to close without notice.
Keywords:
Nurse Manager, Healthcare Management, Nursing Leadership, Patient Care, Clinical Operations, Resource Allocation, Budget Management, Employee Evaluation, Nursing Standards, Healthcare Facility
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