Manager, Nursing; H

Position: Manager, Nursing (H)
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The Manager, Nursing promotes and restores patients' health by developing day-to-day management and long-term planning of the patient care area, directing and developing staff, collaborating with physicians and multi-disciplinary professional staffs, and providing physical and psychological support for patients and their friends and families. This employee enforces professional staff behaviors that facilitate positive relationships among colleagues, physicians, administrators, and other hospital personnel.
** CORE JOB FUNCTIONS
*** Oversees patient flow through designated clinical areas.
* Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.
* Maintains nursing operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.
* Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care, enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements, and to other governing agency regulations, and measuring health outcomes against standards.
* Maintains nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training nurses and auxiliary staff.
* Completes patient care requirements by assigning nursing and staff.
* Maintains nursing staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.
* Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients and their friends and families.
* Promotes patients’ independence by establishing patient care goals, teaching and counseling patients, and reinforcing patients’ understanding of disease, medications, and self-care.
* Resolves patient needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
* Maintains a safe and clean working environment by designing and implementing related procedures, rules, and regulations.
* Accounts for the collection of data to ensure performance improvement and optimal customer service standards.
* Assures all staff meet mandatory continuing education requirements and yearly hospital based competencies
* Provides insight on the unit(s) operations to nursing leadership to assist in the development of strategic planning and departmental expansion.
* Establishes and continuously assesses the effectiveness of the internal controls within the unit and compliance with University policies and procedures.  Ensures employees are trained on controls within the function and on University policy and procedures.
** DEPARTMENT SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS
**** Clinical Management:
*** Responsible for the management of the daily operation for patient care, compliance with nursing standards, patient satisfaction and clinical performance improvement.
* Responsible for patient flow throughout designated clinical areas.  Identifies patient flow barriers both internal and external to the clinical operation and provides and/or implement improvement solutions.
* Responsible for assuring patient care is delivered in alignment with UHealth clinical enterprise mission, and department nursing goals and objectives.
* Responsible for ensuring Clinical sites are adequately staffed and personnel are appropriately trained for their given assignments in order to provide safe, quality care.
* Responsible for assuring staff compliance with mandatory education, licensure requirements, continuing education, and applicable certifications and professional practice standards.
* Responsible for the utilization and maintenance of appropriate nursing care plans and assessment standards.
* Responsible for assuring Clinical sites are prepared for Joint Commission surveys and inspections from regulatory agencies.
* Responsible for the collection of data to ensure…