RN Assistant Nurse Manager - 2E Cardiac Progressive Care Unit

Assistant Nurse Manager - 2E Cardiac Progressive Care Unit
Full-Time, 40 hrs/week, afternoons/evenings

• Position is primarily evening shift with flexibility required to support 24-hour patient care operations. Hours may vary based on departmental needs and include weekends, holidays, rotating off-shift coverage, and on-call responsibilities. Serves as a unit-based resource supporting the RN Nurse Manager in maintaining safe, effective operations and continuity of care across all shifts.

Summa Health System – Barberton Campus
Primary patient population:
This unit primarily provides progressive cardiac care to adult patients with cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurovascular, and stroke-related conditions, using continuous telemetry monitoring for complex, higher-acuity cases. It's a strong setting to sharpen advanced assessment, telemetry interpretation, and clinical decision-making skills.
Unit Size: 34-bed unit
Target Nurse-to-Patient Ratio: 1:4 to 1:5
* subject to change based on census numbers and patient care needs
Highlights

• Supportive, close-knit community hospital where teamwork and collaboration are at the center of patient care
• Experienced clinical team with dedicated preceptors

Summa Health System is recognized as one of the region’s top employers by a number of third party organizations, including North Coast 99. Exceptional candidates gravitate to Summa because of its culture, passion for delivering excellent service to our patients and families commitment to our philosophy of servant leadership, collegial working relationships at every level of the organization and competitive pay and benefits.
Summary Serves as a unit-based resource that supports the RN Nurse Manager in the patient care operations for a designated area(s) on a 24-hour basis; plans and develops tactical short, mid- and long-term goals and processes to enhance and improve the operations of the unit to support Summa Health’s mission, vision and values; identify barriers to meeting goals; manages, guides, coaches, and evaluates the work performance of patient care staff in a designated area;

collaborates with other patient care departments and areas that relate directly or indirectly to patient care operations and services; assists with the management of unit budget plans; assists with calculating a return on investment for unit initiatives; participates in development of evidence-based standards of practice; identifies opportunities for improvement in patient care and organizational processes.
Formal Education Required

• Graduate of a program of professional nursing that is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) or Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)
• BSN required
• Master’s degree preferred
• Clinical Certification preferred or required to obtain within two (2) years
• Current license to practice nursing in the State of Ohio

Experience & Training Required

• Three (3) years of clinical nursing experience and demonstrated leadership qualities

Other Skills, Competencies And Qualifications

• Effective performance of this role at Summa Health System requires that the Assistant Nurse Manager demonstrate core competencies in the area of customer focus, teamwork, job knowledge, and resource management.
• Provides quality service to customers, including patients, families, other staff and the community.
• Works effectively as a team member to achieve organizational and departmental goals
• Supports the use of available resources, including time, people, materials, and financial resources
• Promotes the nursing professional practice model. Practices within the organizational policies and procedures, and Department of Nursing Standards of Practice. Maintains standards that promote patient safety.
• Ability to provide…