Nurse Manager Medical/Surgical Teays Valley Hospital Job Hurricane area,West Virginia USA,Nursing

Position: Nurse Manager -- Medical/Surgical -- Teays Valley Hospital

Nurse Manager -- Medical/Surgical -- Teays Valley Hospital (Job )

Location:

US:

WV:

Hurricane

Post Date: 7/2/2026

Close Date: 7/8/2026

Employment Type:

Employee

Description

Job Summary

Plan, organize, supervise, implement and evaluate patient services in order to provide safe, efficient and therapeutic care within hospital policies and national standards. Work is coordinated with medical staff, professional nursing staff, other departments and community agencies.

Responsibilities

Plan, direct, implement, coordinate and improve services of assigned department:

Provide optimum assistance to the SLA in planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating as related to the department.

Ensure quality patient care through continuous monitors and other effective measures of monitoring in cooperation with Corporate Nursing QI.

Prepare reports, as directed, concerning department activities.

Prepare the annual budget and assume responsibility of their department.

Encourage professional growth of staff.

Encourage cooperation within the Service Line and between the other Service Lines and other hospital departments.

Assist in the supervision and evaluation of personnel and other department personnel as necessary.

Interpret and administer hospital personnel policies as they affect personnel.

Maintain department, institution, and licensure (if applicable) required education. Document appropriately.

Responsible for integrating continuous, quality improvement into department and institution operations, and demonstrate a commitment to the process.

Support and assist employee participation in the continuous, quality improvement processes.

Reinforce employee understanding of work integration with other departments throughout the institution.

Patient Care Management

Assume twenty-four (24) hour responsibility for assigned areas. Organize these areas consistent with the total Service Line organizational structure.
Monitor patient care activities and nursing unit management.
Plan with the Corporate Nursing Administration the numbers and levels of personnel required to provide quality nursing care.
Maintain and facilitate open communications regarding patient status and staffing needs.
Evaluate the mode of care given and initiates changes as necessary in cooperation with Corporate Nursing.
Coordinate with other departments to maintain a therapeutic environment.
Review, update, and facilitate the use of patient care policies and procedures in cooperation with Nursing Practice Council.
Act as a resource for staff members.
Assess the need to define and redefine standards of care, protocols, and job descriptions in each corporate area according to needs of the patient in cooperation with nursing.
Evaluate existing physical environment.
Assure communication of patient and unit activities to supervisors assuming eight (8) hour responsibility for areas.
Coordinate Quality Improvement Program in assigned areas in cooperation with Nursing QI Council.
Promote nursing research based practice.

Personnel Resource Management

Facilitate evaluation of unit personnel, positive and disciplinary counseling, and career counseling based on objectives.
Facilitate professional growth and responsibility by delegating duties to staff members commensurate with job classification and personal ability.
Facilitate area staff meetings.
Assure staff meetings (at least monthly) on unit to provide information, discuss patient care, problem solve, and provide feedback.
Assure appropriate employee orientation by qualified personnel.
Facilitate staff development of sensitivity and awareness of patient/personnel needs in the creation of harmonious interpersonal relationships within the unit and with other hospital departments and the community.
Coordinate interviewing, hiring, and termination of employees.
Facilitate individual employee participation in the decision making process.
Coordinate with supervisors to ensure continuity of effective unit management on a twenty-four (24) hour basis.
Assign responsibility and delegate authority.
Utilize negotiating skills in motivating personnel, obtaining objectives, and resolving conflict.
Assist in recruiting and retaining employees.
Facilitate all levels of student opportunities for learning with varied schools of nursing and allied health.

Fiscal/Physical Resource Management

Assess unit needs and develop realistic goals and objectives.
Collaborate with SLA to formulate budgetary projections.
Determine and maintain acceptable staffing patterns based on patient classification data and professional nursing standards which provides nursing care to all patients twenty-four (24) hours a day. Collaborates with charge nurse for unit coverage.
Communicate and coordinate with SLA regarding unit progress, plans, problems, etc. Make recommendations for appropriate changes.
Promote and maintain a professional and/or therapeutic decorum on the nursing units.
Assure personnel follow through with timely flow of information, e.g. reports, incident reports, patient complaints, etc.
Assure unit…

Nurse Manager Medical​/Surgical Teays Valley Hospital

Nurse Manager Medical/Surgical Teays Valley Hospital