Surgical Technician Position

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Assistant Nurse Manager to join our team at NYU Langone Health. As a key member of our nursing leadership team, you will be responsible for providing clinical leadership and management for a designated time period for a patient care unit. Your expertise and passion for delivering exceptional patient care will be instrumental in achieving our institution's goals and objectives.

• Provide clinical leadership and management for a designated time period for a patient care unit.
• Assist the Nurse Manager in developing and sustaining an environment of excellence in patient/family service, growth and development of staff, and application of evidence-based practice to improve patient care.
• Act as a professional role model to all levels of staff by incorporating expertise, critical thinking, and related experience in all aspects of nursing process in the care of patients and families.
• Assume responsibility for clinical operations of the unit for the designated shift, collaborating with nursing leadership for patient admission, transfer, and discharge activity.
• Provide direct patient care as needed to support the clinical operations of the unit.
• Demonstrate awareness and recognition of the clinical plan of care on a twenty-four hour continuum, ensuring and participating in providing ongoing patient/family education to facilitate discharge planning consistent with the individual needs of the patient/family.
• Assist in facilitating a collaborative interdisciplinary approach to achieve optimal patient care outcomes.
• Serve as a role model for staff in considering needs and behaviors of specific patient age and cultural groups, serving on the Airway Team as designated, and responding to clinical or other emergencies as needed.
• Participate in the development, promulgation, and implementation of process standards for the delivery of patient care relevant to the area of practice.
• Support the mission, philosophy, standards, goals, and objectives of the institution, department, unit, and service line.
• Assist the Nurse Manager with scheduling and staffing for optimal availability of resources, establishing and adjusting as needed the assignment of nursing staff to patients based on unit-specific standards, staff competency, and acuity of patients.
• Provide leadership for coordination of unit activity, serving as a role model and resource during a designated period of time (shift).
• Demonstrate knowledge of the organization's Service Standards and incorporate them into the performance of responsibilities.
• Function as a respectful member of the healthcare team, ensuring pertinent communication of patient care and unit-related issues from nursing staff on surrounding shifts.
• Coordinate patient care services for optimal efficiency with nursing leadership and other disciplines as indicated.
• Coordinate unit response to emergent patient and unit or clinical service events, communicating expeditiously with other leadership and response teams (airway, fire, etc.).
• Communicate significant patient care issues, family concerns, safety, and critical events to leadership on duty at the time, seeking consultation and assistance when indicated, and reporting to the Nurse Manager or Director in a timely manner.
• Identify, initiate investigation, and proactively respond on an immediate basis to potential and actual risk management issues per standards and institutional policies, reporting same to the Nurse Manager and to leadership on duty as indicated.
• Work with the Nurse Manager and other nursing leadership to facilitate and support a 24-hour environment conducive to creativity in practice and cooperation with all members of the healthcare team.
• Participate in interviewing and selecting staff for the unit or clinical service.
• Guide, develop, and counsel staff regarding practice and performance standards, seeking consultation from the leadership on duty in implementing disciplinary measures of an imminent nature, using principles of the caring, fair, and professional work environment.
• Communicate regularly with the Nurse Manager regarding matters of patient safety, clinical practice, staff performance, and participate in the implementation of staff improvement plans.
• Provide input to and participate in informal and formal review of performance standards of staff assigned to the designated shift.
• Promote patient, physician, and other consumer satisfaction by facilitating excellent customer service by all members of the healthcare team.
• Assist with compliance with standards and regulations of agencies pertinent to the unit or clinical service.
• Demonstrate a spirit of collaboration and effective cooperation with other departments regarding clinical activity of other units in the service and hospital.
• Provide leadership support of other unit(s) in the service on weekends and holidays.
• Collaborate with the Nurse Manager and Instructor in identifying, addressing, and utilizing available resources to meet the learning needs of professional and ancillary staff members.
• Participate in developing the unit milieu supportive of education and development of the nursing staff and other healthcare providers, consistent with the goals of a learning organization.
• Facilitate attendance and participation by staff in educational offerings.
• Participate in evaluating the effectiveness of education and development activities in achieving desired outcomes.
• Initiate professional development plan to improve and sustain clinical and leadership competency.
• Serve as a support and resource for the education of healthcare providers as may occur during the designated shift.
• Collaborate with the Nurse Manager and other nursing leadership to support the unit-based quality and performance improvement program consistent with the service and departmental plan.
• Participate in the implementation of action plans and identify new opportunities for improvement.
• Foster an environment that promotes patient/family, physician, and staff satisfaction, and communicate issues and concerns to the Nurse Manager.
• Maintain awareness of research protocols applicable to the unit, ensure knowledge of staff, protect rights of patients, and participate in assessment/evaluation of outcomes.
• Participate in and foster staff involvement in evidence-based practice and other nursing research efforts.
• Provide clinical leadership by assessing, implementing, and evaluating the care provided to patients and families in the designated unit.

To qualify for this role, you must have a Current Registered Professional Nurse in New York. A Baccalaureate degree in Nursing is required. A minimum of two years of clinical practice in the care of the patient population served is necessary. You must be able to apply nursing process toward achievement of specific outcomes in an organized fashion, which addresses patient/family satisfaction. Progressive advancement on the clinical ladder, demonstrated in achievement of at least Nurse Clinician, and preferably Senior Nurse Clinician level, is required. You must demonstrate the potential for leadership by serving competently as a group practice leader, resource nurse, or charge. You must also demonstrate ability to develop, guide, motivate, nurture, and coach others, participate in service or departmental committees, staff and/or patient education programs, and evidence of strong interpersonal skills, effective communication skills, and creative problem-solving. Membership in pertinent professional organizations is also required.

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization. NYU Langone Health provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good about devoting your time and your talents. NYU Langone Health is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender dysphoria, national origin, age, religion, disability, military and veteran status, marital or parental status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision.