Manager Clinical RN - 7 South Acute Care ENT

Job Summary

The Manager Clinical RN is a registered professional nurse who provides support and works in conjunction with the nurse manager of a specific unit(s) or service. This leader upholds the executive nursing leader's direction and actively leads staff in the performance of their daily activities and participates in their performance reviews, as well as coaching and counseling as appropriate.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions

Resources and Support

• Engages staff in decision making via shared governance processes and partners with others to promote patient centered care and service excellence.
• Supports the executive nursing leader as a designee and provides evolving leadership and management skills for a specific business/clinical unit(s).
• Represents the organization positively to the community, building credibility and is a member of one's professional organization.
• Serves to support the charge nurse and other nurse leaders on the unit to promote the effective running of the care delivery system.
• Manages budget development and supports monitoring and meeting fiscal outcomes for the work unit.
• Self-directed in learning how to apply lean and other quality skills to reduce waste and improve performance of operations and clinical systems of care.

Interdisciplinary Teamwork and Collaboration

• Effectively communicates to diverse workforce and enjoys mentoring others while learning the necessary skills for progressive responsibilities in nursing management.
• Holds all staff at point of care accountable for performance standards.
• Creates opportunities for self and staff to grow and implements a healthy, safe, desirable work place that ensures retention and recruitment of qualified staff.

Exemplary Practice and Outcomes

• Promote staff competency in clinical care delivery.
• Holds self and staff to the highest professional and ethical standards, ensuring corporate compliance standards and clinical competency are met.
• Serves as a role model for professional nursing practice and nursing leadership.
• Successfully works with nursing executives to employ change management strategies.

Professional Development

• Represents the organization positively to the community, building credibility and as a member of one's professional organization.
• Seeks opportunities to advance knowledge and skills through formal and informal educational offerings.

Evidence Based Practice and Research

• Promotes evidence based practice, nursing research and performance improvement in nursing.
• Participates in activities such as value analysis as part of the decision making process in evaluating patient care products.
• Effectively identifies areas of performance improvement of staff and clinical systems.
• Supports nurse executive projects to improve the same, including assuring service meets or exceeds licensure, regulatory and accreditation standards.
• Advances managerial skills to effectively use data and evidence to support decision making for clinical and operational responsibilities.

Performs other duties as assigned. Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.