Nurse Manager , Hospital

Job Summary:

The Nurse Manager I provides leadership and operational oversight within the Medical/Surgical unit at Sunnyside Medical Center. Serving as the on‑shift nursing leader, this role ensures the delivery of high‑quality, cost‑effective patient care while fostering a positive and collaborative work environment. The Nurse Manager I partners with clinical staff and management teams to maintain excellence in patient outcomes and compliance with regulatory standards.

In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for implementing best practice models; implementing patient care delivery systems and practice standards in several locations; investigating and resolving patient/family/member concerns regarding patient care and services; collaborating with physicians, outside healthcare providers, and other health care team members to achieve optimal and safe patient care across the continuum; monitoring resource needs in assigned clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization;

monitoring the use and maintenance of equipment, supplies and medications; fostering a safe environment for patients and employees; maintaining clinical expertise, providing clinical supervision, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care in the unit; delegating tasks and duties that are aligned to scope of practice; and performing clinical duties as required. Collaborates with Nursing Clinical Practice to ensure assistants and staff provide the highest quality of care and are in compliance with the Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements.

• Provides developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross‑functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; develops and provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations. Leads, adapts, implements, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends.
  
  Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance, and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making.
• Manages designated work unit or team by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; determines and ensures processes and methodologies are implemented; resolves escalated issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress.
  
  Fosters the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
• Manages hospital administrative functions to support patient care by: driving implementation of action items and supporting compliance with timelines and financial commitments; reviewing ad hoc reporting to meet specific client needs related to workflow and performance targets; overseeing data collection, reviewing data, and translating reports into short-term operational initiatives; managing cross‑functional activities including workplace and patient safety, human resources (e.g., recruitment, selection, promoting active recruitment, performance feedback), labor relations, training and development, and quality/risk management issues;
  
  leading survey readiness activities including mock rounds and mitigating issues to maintain compliance and…