Assistant Nurse Manager Emergency Room

The Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM)
-Emergency Department is responsible for assisting in the coordination, oversight, and evaluation of nursing and clinical operations within the critical care environment. This role supports the Nurse Manager in ensuring the delivery of safe, evidence-based, high-quality, and patient-centered care across the assigned Nursing departments.

In collaboration with physicians, nursing leadership, and the interdisciplinary team, the ANM assists in identifying at-risk patients, coordinating care plans, and ensuring optimal patient outcomes. This role actively contributes to quality improvement initiatives, performance metrics, regulatory compliance, and patient experience outcomes through data collection, analysis, and process improvement.

The ANM maintains a professional presence, mentors staff, promotes accountability, and fosters a culture of safety, respect, and confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA and organizational standards.

This position also supports the Nurse Manager’s operational leadership functions including staffing coordination, payroll validation, scheduling oversight, chart quality review, staff counseling, policy development, interview participation, and patient experience initiatives.

• Assumes responsibility of planning, directing, coordinating, and evaluating services on evening or night tours.
• Establishes, implements, and continuously monitors the goals and objectives of the department while maintaining alignment with the strategic goals and objectives of the organization.
• Promotes excellence in nursing as a resource and a role model of the Professional Practice Model:
  Center of Excellence.
• Uses Evidence based leadership practice, style, Emotional Intelligence to create High Reliable, Just, Safety, and learning culture, by developing a healthy work environment, and high performing teams.
• Delegates and coordinates patient care activities at the unit level to ensure safe and effective care delivery aligned with patient acuity and plan of care.
• Prioritizes clinical workflow and supports daily operations, including facilitation of interdisciplinary rounds and length-of-stay/discharge planning meetings.
• Assists in developing and implementing individualized, evidence-based, patient-centered plans of care in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Serves as a clinical resource, role model, and mentor to nursing staff in critical care practice standards and decision-making.
• Rounds on patients and staff

• Monitors, evaluates, and supports improvement of clinical outcomes through participation in performance improvement (PI) initiatives, audits, and compliance activities.
• Collaborates with Nurse Manager and CNO to ensure adherence to regulatory standards, National Patient Safety Goals, and hospital policies.
• Supports data collection, analysis, and reporting for quality indicators including infection prevention, patient safety events, and core measures.
• Leads and supports departmental initiatives to improve patient experience scores and service excellence outcomes.
• Responsible for creating active and maintaining robust shared governance councils, increased active participation in clinical ladders, supporting new residents in education and experiential learning, improving certification rates, educational levels within the department.
• Leads the team to Pathways to Excellence journey, Magnet, and or other designations.

• Assists Nurse Manager/ Director with daily operational management including staffing coordination, scheduling, and assignment adjustments based on acuity and staffing needs.
• Supports payroll review and validation to ensure accuracy and compliance with organizational policies.
• Participates in chart audits, documentation quality reviews, and compliance monitoring.
• Assists in policy and procedure development, revision, and implementation in alignment with regulatory and evidence-based standards.

• Participates in staff orientation, onboarding, competency validation, and ongoing staff education initiatives.
• Conducts or participates in staff performance evaluations, counseling sessions, and corrective action processes in collaboration with the Nurse Manager/Director.
• Participates in recruitment and hiring processes, including interviews and candidate evaluation alongside Nurse…