Clinical Nurse Manager Cath Lab

Position Responsibilities

• Leads by example. Actively contributes to team effort by helping, supporting and being present/available on the floor.
• Plans organizes and directs activities of all unit Staff available on the shift.
• Leads during complex/stressful situations. Ensures timely and appropriate actions and follows up on the effectiveness of the solution.
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating relevant and timely information.
• Performs Daily Dialogues on a consistent and reliable basis taking maximum advantage of the 15 minutes allocated to the meeting.
• Schedule:
  
  Timely prepares and communicates the Unit’s monthly schedule, balancing patient acuity, census, staff skills, experience, availability and special requests to minimize overtime use and to meet budgetary needs.
• Staff availability:
  Identifies staffing patterns to cover the unit’s needs around the clock and performs daily adjustment to schedule and proactively calls team members if the Operation needs help.
• Payroll:
  Verifies and updates payroll system on a daily basis and troubleshoots with Director and pending issue.
• Weekly Dialogue:
  Actively participates in the Weekly Dialouge, contributes with his/her ideas and follows up on assigned tasks.
• Process Confirmation:
  Executes all Process Confirmations scheduled for the shift. Provides immediate feedback to employee (strengths & opportunity areas), updates tracking tool and adds comments.
• Incidents Reporting:
  Timely reports incidents and discusses with Director opportunities and solutions to prevent incident from reoccurring.
• Licenses and Accreditations:
  Ensures all Nurses have all appropriate licenses/accreditations, keeping track and anticipating due dates.
• Provides Director input about recruitment and team development needs.
• Interviews potential candidates and ensures qualified “Preceptors” are able to meet, talk and provide feedback on candidates potential.
• Ensures new employee onboarding is effective and that he/she feel welcomed and appreciated from his/her very first day at work.
• Continuously develops a strong and reliable nursing team by motivating, coaching, evaluating, counseling (PIP) and disciplining employees.
• Continuously monitors team members performance and does appraisal meetings twice a year. Reinforces desired behaviors and defines action plans to correct/improve opportunity areas.
• Provides continuous and effective coaching to his/her team to ensure employee feels that he/she is appreciated, that he/she is developing his/her skills, and that he has a sponsor to guide him/her on career path decisions.
• Provides clinical and operational training to new and exisiting employees.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks and participating in professional societies.
• Ensures correct operation and availability of medical and administrative equipment by tracking equipment inventories and location.
• Ensures preventative maintenance has been performed according to schedule and troubleshoots malfunctions with proper department.
• Helps evaluate new equipment.
• Troubleshoots nursing supplies inventory shortages to maintain operation running during the shift. Request Director’s Requisition s.
• Keeps updated on System knowledge, understanding data entry, maintenance and reporting processes.
• Ensures high quality, cost effective health care by enforcing compliance of safety, clinical/operational processes, procedures and policies, state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations.
• Enforces infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration administration, storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Enforces compliance of HR Personnel policies, procedures and proactively work to reinforce Service Keys and desired behaviors.
• Provides Director with feedback, insights and opportunities obtained during Process Confirmations.
• Ensures proper “Patient Care Services Documentation” by auditing patient/department records.
• Maintains strict patient confidential information processing according to…