Department Manager 4G Progressive Care Unit - RN

Department Manager 4G Progressive Care Unit - RN required

Job Summary: The Manager is a Registered Nurse who orchestrates and influences the work of others in their department to enhance the shared vision of Frederick Health. They strive to create a culture of quality and safety in care delivery through advocacy, leadership, shared vision, knowledge of clinical and business practices, and accountability. They collaborate with others to provide a multidisciplinary approach to improving care for patients and their families.

• Assures that standards of care and clinical practice are established, consistent with national, regional and Frederick Health standards, and are routinely updated and consistently practiced.
• Collaborates with team members to meet or exceed performance targets for patient satisfaction, patient safety initiatives, and other outcome measures according to evidence based practices and best practice models.
• Collaborates with the nursing staff and healthcare team members on the development, review and revision of clinical policies and procedures.
• Monitors compliance with, and enforces clinical policies and procedures.
• Addresses any patient care issues, complaints, or grievances through any channels as appropriate.
• Promotes accountability for nursing practice.
• Promotes clinical and workplace autonomy for nurses.
• Promotes Evidence Based practice.
• Promotes positive working relationships among the health care team.
• Promotes care that satisfies the health care consumer.
• Provides for adequate staffing for quality patient care through interviewing, hiring, coaching, counseling, mentoring, and evaluating.
• Collaborates with Director in developing a staffing plan to provide patient care 24 hours/day, seven days/week.
• Ensures a balanced staffing schedule is developed to meet the department needs.
• Collaborates with the Clinical Nurse Specialist to assure staff orientation, development, and education to meet the needs of the patient population and the department.
• Works with staff to create an environment conducive to collaboration, teamwork, and adherence to the Standards of Behavior.
• Engages in departmental efforts to promote retention of staff and employee satisfaction.
• In collaboration with the Director and Human Resources, disciplines and when necessary terminates department staff.
• Promotes respect for nurses’ rights and responsibilities.
• Promotes a safe and healthy workplace.
• Promotes education, research, and appropriate technologies.
• Promotes adequate compensation commensurate with responsibility, education, and experience.
• Participates in the development of staffing and departmental budgets.
• Monitors productivity and adjusts staffing to accommodate for any variances.
• Monitors budget activity and identifies any discrepancies.
• Provides justification for any variances and a corrective action plan if appropriate to the scenario.
• Promotes stewardship of allocated resources.
• Promotes nursing control of nursing practice and oversight of the practice environment.
• Identifies and communicates vision and values and asks for the involvement of the work group to achieve the vision of the department and organization.
• Challenges staff to take greater ownership for their work towards meeting patient outcomes.
• Challenges staff to be innovative and creative.
• Demonstrates concern for the needs of the staff.
• Provides for the monitoring of indicators to ensure that processes are in compliance with evidence based standards, and opportunities for improvement are identified and acted on to meet or exceed targets.
• Participates in performance improvement, projects, and committees to enhance patient care and processes across the organization.
• Assures that staff is actively involved in evidence based research for quality and process improvement initiatives.
• Fosters peer review process.
• Empowers staff to participate in decision making process.
• Assist staff in their self‑evaluation and personal goal‑setting activities.
• Completes education appropriate for their own developmental needs as well as hospital and department mandatory education requirements and competencies.
• Searches for opportunities to expand skills.
• Other duties as…