Unit Manager - Surgical Services

Overview: Starting Pay: $40.
03 to $50.
04 DOE Full-time, exempt position working primarily Monday - Friday from 6:30 am - 4:30 pm.
The Unit Manager is a registered nurse who provides 24 hour/7 days a week, leadership in nursing practice and directs patient care delivery within a specified nursing unit.
Provides leadership by working cooperatively with ancillary nursing and health team members to promote continuity of care through the nursing process.
Serves as a clinical resource person to all staff members on a specified nursing unit.
Responsibilities: Assists VP of Clinical Services in planning programs that are integrated with patient care delivered on the nursing unit.
Responsible for the recruiting, interviewing, and selection of staff.
Utilizes hospitals peer interviewing process.
Responsible for the planning and scheduling of nursing staff orientation.
Is involved in the orientation process.
Participates in staff development programs.
Guides staff in the process of personal/professional growth through coaching, counseling, and mentoring.
Serves as a clinical resource person to all staff members on a specified nursing unit.
Evaluates the competence of staff within the unit through the use of established performance standards; communicates corrective action to VP of Clinical Services and ensures follow up is completed.
Participates in Quarterly Leadership Development training.
Responsible to make or provide input into making the employee schedule for department.
Evaluates “staffing system” to insure unit needs are being met including implementation of Scheduled call when applicable.
Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
Assures the appropriate use of the nursing process in the delivery of care cognizant of Erikson’s developmental life stages to all ages of patients.
Acts as liaison between patient, family and physician and other members of the health team.
Participates in the development of organizational and departmental goals and implements processes to meet those goals.
Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing policies, procedures, guidelines and standards of care; enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations including The Joint Commission; measuring health outcomes against standards; making or recommending adjustments in the delivery of patient care.
Provides for communication of policy, procedure and other appropriate changes to staff and gathers feedback from staff within unit.
Reports and follows-up on potential risk management, corporate compliance, HIPAA, and quality and safety issues on a timely basis and reports findings to VP of Clinical Services.
Seeks assistance from appropriate resource person as necessary in solving clinical and management problems.
Promotes an environment in which the multidisciplinary patient care team can work cooperatively toward objectives.
Provides leadership by working cooperatively with ancillary nursing and health team members to promote continuity of care through the nursing process.
Delegates responsibilities to personnel within scope of their abilities and competencies.
Serves on committees and attends meetings as assigned or requested by VP of Clinical Services.
Performs other duties as assigned or requested.
Assists with special projects.
Performs the duties and responsibilities of staff RN.
Ensures operation of medical and administrative equipment by verifying emergency equipment availability; following manufacturer’s instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repair; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand service requirements and through the review and analysis of survey results.
Qualifications: PREPARATION AND TRAINING 1.
Work requires a professional level of knowledge acquired by completing an accredited RN nursing education program.
Candidate must hold RN licensure from the ND board of Nursing for the current year.
Preference for a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing.
EXPERIENCE 1.
Minimum of three years of general nursing experience in hospital (health care field).
2.
Preference for previous supervisory or management experience.
3.
Preference for a minimum one year of staff experience in the individual unit.
4.
Knowledge of Joint Commission Standards.
5.
Knowledge of administrative nursing practice.
Time to reach competency on the job: 3 months to 6 months following orientation to the work area.