Nurse Manager. Family Maternity Suites

The Nurse Manager, Family Maternity Suites operates within the Springfield Memorial Hospital and Nursing Division mission, vision, strategic priorities and goals. Utilizing a shared leadership philosophy, the Nurse Manager assumes 24-hour accountability for unit management and the quality of patient care on a designated unit(s). The Nurse Manager creates and maintains a work environment conducive to effective communication, collaboration, teambuilding and nursing professionalism.

She/he ensures the enculturation of the Magnet Program requirements on the unit. She/he assures that care provided on the unit is appropriate to the age of the patients served and that staff are competent to provide safe, quality, evidence-based nursing care. She/he maintains positive physician and interdepartmental relationships as well as positive employee morale.

Education:

• BSN REQUIRED;
  Master's degree preferred.

Licensure/Certification/Registry:

• Current Illinois RN licensure required.
• Holds national specialty nursing certification in clinical area or nursing administration, or completes within 24 months of assuming role.

Experience:

• Minimum three years' experience in acute care nursing as a registered nurse with demonstrated progressive leadership/management skill REQUIRED.

Other Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Demonstrated understanding of nurse-sensitive quality indicators and basic hospital/nursing regulatory requirements.

• Demonstrates responsibility for own personal and professional growth as reflected in ongoing education, projects, and annual professional development plan.
• Provides and receives formal peer-to-peer feedback among nurse leader colleagues.
• Empowers self and staff to enhance patient-focused nursing care and quality patient outcomes as reflected in patient satisfaction and quality improvement efforts.
• Fosters an environment which focuses on values, professionalism and accountability, where staff and management see each other as partners in the decision making process.
• Serves as a professional nurse role model and works to encourage and develop future nursing leaders as a function of succession planning.

• Maintains an understanding of the unit’s primary patient populations and their care needs/requirements.
• Keeps up-to-date on new clinical treatments/services being developed/implemented for primary patient populations.
• Maintains a sound knowledge base of current trends and developments in nursing practice in order to lead unit-based changes to improve patient care delivery.

• Demonstrates ability and willingness to collaborate with peers and staff.
• Shows commitment to the development of inter-departmental/interprofessional collaboration for improvement of patient care, unit efficiency and effectiveness.
• Develops working relationships with the medical staff that encourage problem solving on all levels.
• Builds and maintains a strong Unit-Based Council to facilitate shared decision-making process.

• Involves self with professional organizations and community health-related services and agencies.

• Encourages and facilitates a work climate conducive to open, honest communication and incorporates an effective information sharing process to ensure staff are kept up to date on key changes/issues affecting their work processes.
• Demonstrates a communication style which is supportive and non-threatening, thus providing an environment that allows for open expression of ideas and problem solving.
• Attends Nurse Management Council and Department Managers' meetings and relays pertinent information to staff.

• Is accountable for recruitment, interviewing, selection and retention of unit-based staff.
• Is accountable for scheduling of personnel to assure quality patient care within budget requirements.
• Is accountable for staff performance monitoring/feedback/appraisal and initiating corrective/disciplinary action as necessary, in accordance with hospital policies.
• Holds regular staff meetings in order to facilitate communication of organizational imperatives/changes as well as unit issues.
• Encourages staff to identify personal and professional growth needs and facilitates appropriate opportunities for that growth.
• Maintains a climate which provides ongoing appreciation and recognition of achievements.
• Supports appropriate risk-taking efforts by staff and peers.
• Assists in the development of and supports divisional…