Description
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Job Summary:
Manages human resources to maintain compliance with approved standards/guidelines for nursing care and within established budget parameters. Provides clinical expertise in patient placement. Communicates appropriately to define/resolve immediate problems and promote continuity of patient care. Serves as a clinical resource for patient care activities and problem resolution.
Job Responsibilities:
-Manages human resources to maintain compliance with approved standards/guidelines for nursing care and within established budget parameters.
-Evaluates and adjusts staffing requirements for current shift and following shift.
-Evaluates, coaches, and counsels nursing personnel according to established hospital policies.
-Monitors adherence to time and attendance policy.
-Provides clinical expertise in patient placement.
-Consults as needed regarding bed availability.
-Facilitates patient movement through assessment of patient needs and coordination of transfers.
-Communicates appropriately to define/resolve immediate problems and promote continuity of patient care.
-Communicates with staff, patients, and families to identify and resolve problems.
-Communicates appropriately with Administrative Supervisor and/or ancillary departments.
-Communicates shift/unit activities to Clinical Manager consistently and appropriately.
-Serves as a clinical resource for patient care activities and problem resolution.
-Demonstrates professional judgment in response to changing patient/unit situations.
-Monitors and evaluates standards of care.
-Utilizes the nursing process to provide patient care as necessary to meet patient/unit needs.
-Assists in revision and development of unit policies, procedures, and established protocols.
-Supports SFHS goals through PI and educational activities.
-Identifies education/training needs of personnel.
-Assists in developing and implementing in-service programs and communicates needs appropriately.
-Participates in PI monitoring activities and assists with implementation of corrective actions.
-Assumes responsibility for own professional growth.
-Decision Making: Independent judgment in making decisions from many diversified alternatives that are subject to general review in final stages only.
--Working Relationship:
-Direct Supervision of others.
-Prepares and gives performance evaluations.
-Works directly with patients and/or customers.
-Works with internal customers via telephone or face-to-face interaction.
-Works with external customers via telephone or face to face interaction.
-Works with other healthcare professionals and staff.
-Works frequently with individuals at Director level or above.
Skills
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Required Skills & Experience:
-One to two (1-2) years of related experience.
-Working knowledge of general disease state management processes, bio-psychosocial model, and clinical pathways.
-Effective interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
-Ability to organize and prioritize work in an effective and efficient manner.
-Ability to be detail oriented as required in the examination of clinical and numerical data.
-Ability to handle conflict management effectively.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
-N/A
Education
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Required Education:
-Has completed the basic professional curricula of a school of nursing as approved and verified by a state board of nursing and holds or is entitled to hold a diploma or degree therefrom.
Preferred Education:
-N/A
Required Certifications & Licensure:
-Valid multi-state or State of Oklahoma Registered Nurse License.
Preferred Certifications & Licensure:
-N/A