Nurse Manager - Emergency Department

Job Details

Job Location:

BHI Bristol Hospital Main Campus - Bristol, CT 06010, Position Type:
Full Time, Education Level: 4 Year Degree, Salary Range: $ - $ Salary.

At Bristol Health, we begin each day caring today for your tomorrow. We have been an integral part of our community for the past 100 years. We are dedicated to providing the best possible care and service to our patients, residents and families. We are committed to provide compassionate, quality care at all times and to uphold our values of Communication, Accountability, Respect and Empathy (C.A.R.E.).

We are Magnet ® and received the 2020 Press Ganey Leading Innovator award for our rapid adoption and implementation of healthcare solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Use your expertise, compassion, and kindness to transform the patient experience. Make a difference. Make Bristol Health your choice.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities Maintains 24-Hour accountability for high quality patient centered care (LEADERSHIP)

• Staffs the unit on a 24 hour basis appropriate to patient needs.
• Remains accessible to staff and assures appropriate dissemination of information.
• Acts as a role model for professional practice by demonstrating proper, flexible and creative problem solving skills.
• Utilizes appropriate communication and collaboration skills and demonstrates working knowledge of professional practice of varied disciplines.
• Oversees and supervises all nursing care activities, directly or through assigned supervision.
• Consistently provides feedback to staff on positive and negative aspects of performance.

Establishes, monitors and maintains quality standards for optimal patient outcomes on a 24 hour basis (RESEARCH)

• Makes environmental and clinical rounds as needed.
• Provides direction for QI outcomes in respective service line.
• Establishes performance measures and monitors performance against them.
• Supports activities designed to assess professional practice, patient care and patient outcomes.
• Develops, implements and monitors policies and procedures to ensure a safe and secure working environment for patients.
• Establishes and implements departmental safety standards and procedures in accordance with accepted professional practice.
• Manages change in a positive manner.

Acts as a resource for clinical information (LEADERSHIP)

• Applies current clinical knowledge to unit operations.
• Updates unit resources, provides educational material for all staff and encourages contributions to hospital publications.
• Encourages information exchange among unit staff.
• Encourages interdepartmental information exchange as appropriate and utilizes and modifies information gained from resources in implementing change.
• Refers unit staff to other hospital resources as appropriate.
• Performs nursing actions that demonstrate accountability.
• Investigates any disciplinary issues and reports issues to service line leader.

Maintains effective communication and collaboration between unit staff, physicians and other hospital personnel, as well as promoting growth and development of unit staff (COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP BUILDING)

• Represents Patient Services and unit needs on hospital wide committees.
• Collaborates with other departments as appropriate.
• Establishes and maintains professional relationships with members of the medical staff and encourages staff to do the same.
• Establishes systems for communication with the unit(s) and to other departments.
• Participates in Nursing Leadership meetings.

Participates in the recruitment/orientation/development of staff (BUSINESS SKILLS AND PRINCIPLES)

• Maintains accurate position control sheets.
• Screens and interviews candidates, working closely with Personnel recruitment process, and fills all positions as appropriate.
• In conjunction with Service Line Leader/CNO and Personnel representative, assists in termination and other disciplinary actions.
• Supervises orientation in collaboration with Education/HRD department.
• Conducts performance appraisals with assistance of Clinical Director as necessary.

Provides leadership and direction to the unit by developing, implementing and monitoring department philosophy goals and objectives (LEADERSHIP)

• In conjunction with Service Line Leader/CNO, develops philosophy, goals and objectives for department(s).
• Periodically reviews and revises philosophy goals and objectives in conjunction with staff and Director, making recommendations for change as appropriate.
• Prioritizes goals and objectives and sets reasonable target dates.
• Submits reports in a…