Nurse Manager (RN)- 4S Medical Surgery- Augusta- FT

Wellstar Health System

Augusta, GA

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JOB DETAILS

SKILLS

Accreditation Standards, Alliance/Partner Management, Budget Management, Clinical Competency, Clinical Information Systems, Clinical Medicine, Clinical Nursing, Clinical Outcomes, Coaching, Communication Skills, Decision Support, Employee Retention, Exceeded Sales Goal, Financial Analysis, Financial Management, Healthcare, Leadership, Legal, Maintain Compliance, Materials Management, Medical Treatment, Medical Waste, Nursing, Nursing Credentials, Nursing Management, Onboarding, Operational Improvement, Operations Planning, Organizational Development/Management, Patient Care, Performance Management, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Product Testing, Quality Metrics, Quality of Care, Registered Nurse (RN), Regulations, Research Nursing, Resource Management, Retention Programs, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Safety Standards, Safety/Work Safety, Service Delivery, Systems Administration/Management, Talent Management, Team Player, Treatment Evaluation, Value Analysis, Writing Skills

LOCATION

Augusta, GA

POSTED

9 days ago

A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives. Work Shift The nurse manager is a registered professional nurse who provides leadership and management of a specific unit(s) or service through the effective use of knowledge and skills to promote the creation of a center of excellence for staff recruitment and retention and clinical and business outcomes. The nurse manager is the standard bearer on his/her unit and holds all participants on his/her unit accountable for the delivery of care and services through effective communication; Responsibilities include clinical, financial, human and material resources deployment and associated outcomes or goals. The Nurse Manager serves as a chief retention and safety officer and ensures that safety and quality standards are upheld or met by effective use of data and technology to make decisions and proactively mitigates unnecessary risks for his/her area of responsibility. The Nurse Manager creates and ensures a desirable, safe work environment that enables the organization to meet or exceed its mission and goals. He/she models the way to foster communication and collaboration with physicians, staff, patients and other departments. Role specific competencies, responsibilities, roles and functions are based on the Professional Practice Model, 5-Star Nursing. It is expected that all RN Clinical Nurses are licensed, knowledgeable and uphold the practice of nursing as outlined by the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act and implements the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards put forth by the American Nurses Association. As a member of the patient services team, it is expected the individual upholds the voice of the patient, system policies and procedures while supporting service excellence goals. Engages staff in decision making via shared governance processes and partners with others to promote relationship-based care delivery systems that support patient centered care and service excellence while effectively providing leadership and management for a specific business/clinical unit(s). Serves as the unit/programs chief retention and safety officer to manage talent and protect/carefully deploy human and material resources through effective use knowledge. Analyzes and manages financial resources; uses lean and other quality skills to reduce waste and improve performance of operations and clinical systems of care; Effectively communicates to diverse audiences on nursing, health care and organizational issues which includes the ability to set standards and hold leaders and staff accountable for performance standards. Establishes partnerships by employing strong relationship building skills with staff, departments and medical staff by striving to understand others (and situations) and keeping the long view in mind is fair and just using reflective practice skills to monitor self and others performance/interaction skills exercising coaching and guiding skills Promote staff competency in clinical care delivery Is an active member of ones professional community and serves as a role model for professional nursing practice and nursing leadership, possesses hiring skills and supports effective orientation and onboarding of new staff, advances the field through transformational executive leadership and scholarly activity Possess necessary Knowledge about health care financing and uses this knowledge and skill to ensure the effective management of human and material resources; designing and implementing systems to manage and measure outcomes to achieve expected business and clinical goals and objectives for self, staff and unit performance develops operational budget and manages it to target level performance or better Represents the organization positively to the community, building credibility and willingness to serve on committees and task forces as needed to share knowledge and skill; 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 risk and proactively works to ensure compliance and safety standards. This includes assuring service meets or exceed licensure, regulatory and accreditation standards Applies the effective use of data and evidence to support decision making for clinical and operational responsibilities and demonstrates awareness of legal and ethical issues related to patient and staff data, information and confidentiality Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct. Bachelors Nursing ~*** Format Error Masters Nursing-Preferred RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact or RN - Reg Nurse (Single State) Minimum 2 years of progressive experience in nursing management Required Should possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and relationship building; a knowledge of the health care environment; professionalism and teamwork/collaboration for self/department/medical staff;

About the Company

Wellstar Health System

As the largest healthcare system in the suburbs of Atlanta, WellStar serves more than a million patients a year within our hospitals, health parks, urgent care centers, and medical practices in NW Atlanta. We are a leading not-for-profit health system with state-of-the-art medical technology and a world-class employee family. Onsite concierge services, pension plans and job sharing are just the start of our innovative vision of a ‘Work Life Well Lived!’

COMPANY SIZE

10,000 employees or more

INDUSTRY

Healthcare Services

FOUNDED

1997

WEBSITE

http://www.wellstarcareers.org/index.asp