Nurse Manager Assistant - Medical Surgical - Nights

Description

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

Together, we keep getting better — advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

• Leadership/Human Resource Management In collaboration with the Nurse Manager, the ANM:
  • Participate with recruitment and retention strategies.
  • Assist with unit huddles and leader rounding with employees.
  • Participate with unit goal creation reflecting the hospital goals and the mission and vision of Hackensack Meridian Health.
  • Participate or lead when appropriate: evidence-based practice projects or research.
  • Participate or lead when appropriate: unit-based or hospital based shared governance committees or councils.
  • Resolve conflicts and facilitate constructive resolutions and positive outcomes if possible.
  • Complete employee corrective action plans/counseling as necessary.
  • Adhere to HMH Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.
  • Prepare and conduct periodic performance evaluations for assigned staff members.
  • Contribute to and/or monitor the unit orientation process of all roles as necessary.
  • Participate with and model the importance of employee recognition.
  • Model cultural competence, social justice and fairness, and capitalize on generational diversity to foster highly effective work groups.
  • Where applicable, escalates nursing labor/management issues.
• Financial Management The ANM collaborates with the Nurse Manager for efficient fiscal management of departmental activities to ensure proper utilization of hospital resources:
  • Participates in payroll, staff scheduling and daily staffing needs.
  • Assists in the management of the department budget.
  • Monitors business intelligence for the unit.
  • Maximizes care efficiency and throughput.
  • Understands the relationship between value-based purchasing and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement.
  • Monitors unit staffing productivity and flexes staff accordingly.
• Quality and Safety/Performance Improvement In collaboration with the Nurse Manager, the ANM will:
  • Optimize the patient and family experience of care.
  • Lead multidisciplinary rounds.
  • Ensure unit-based performance improvement monitoring is completed, trended and reported internally and externally to the unit.
  • Lead or participate in quality improvement projects.
  • Lead or conduct root cause analysis investigations.
  • Assure unit regulatory compliance.
  • Participate in staff education and competency.
  • Serve as a role model to others and mentor new employees and new Charge RNs.
• General Job Functions
  • Interpret, support, and communicate policies, standards and procedures.
  • Serve as a role model for staff in all aspects of nursing (i.e., professionalism, quality care).
  • Assist in identifying cost containment measures by identifying alternative measures of product utilization within the department.
  • Serve on-call based on unit requirements.
  • Assume special projects as assigned.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by leadership.
  • Adhere to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Education,

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• A minimum of an associate in Nursing or diploma of Nursing degree.
• BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire (Note this applies to team members hired on or after February 2025).
  
  Note:
  
  Advanced master’s degree in nursing programs satisfy the BSN requirement (i.e., Associates to MSN).
• Minimum 3 years recent nursing experience in respective specialty or equivalent. Exceptions may be made for internal candidates on a case by case basis (i.e., the candidate has a history of hospital administration education/experience).
• The ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs, a strong sense of accountability for improving the lives of our patients and their caregivers, an exceptional focus on teamwork,…