RN, Clinical Manager

Clinical Manager – Emergency Department

Location:

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. Salary: $82,162.00–$.

The Clinical Manager is responsible and accountable for the quality of staff and functions during their shift. The role directly supervises and communicates with all staff along with the Department Director, assists in the daily operation of the unit, directs, supervises and evaluates personnel, and ensures efficient use of time, equipment and staff. The Clinical Manager performs direct patient care only as needed, stays within the scope of practice, continually assesses care, and directs staff to make immediate changes in the plan of care.

• Assists the Unit Director in identifying equipment and supply needs for the unit.
• Assists the Unit Director in identifying problems with equipment utilization.
• Identifies nursing problems for investigation.
• Coordinates staff schedule.
• Reviews and revises policies and procedures.
• Serves as a resource to other nursing staff for problem‑solving.
• Helps others use hospital resources.
• Reviews hours worked payroll reports (Ultipro).
• Communicates with other departments as needed to provide efficient and appropriate patient care.
• Supports management decisions.
• Demonstrates knowledge of resource consumption, including utilization of resources, procedures and lengths of stay; actively intervenes as needed.

• Supports the mission, vision and philosophy at WHMC.
• Proactively identifies problems and participates in solutions; follows up as appropriate.
• Observes and evaluates unit staff’s ability to perform assigned duties and provides feedback to the director as needed.
• Assists individual staff members in identifying their own learning needs.
• Assists in completing performance appraisals for selected staff as delegated by the Unit Director.
• Participates in interviews of potential employees.
• Under the direction of the Unit Director, may hire, counsel, suspend and/or terminate staff.
• Maintains nursing hours according to set standards.
• Participates in assigned committees/task forces.
• Takes lead on projects and completes them in a timely manner.

• Rounds on all patients daily.
• Serves as a role model in assessment skills.
• Assesses the care being delivered to patients on the assigned unit in accordance with policies, procedures and standards of care of WHMC.

• Serves as a role model in planning skills.
• Recommends discharge planning needs/issues to appropriate case management staff.
• Contributes to the development of more complex patient care plans.
• Serves as a resource to staff for complex patients.

• Serves as a role model in patient care and patient/family/significant other teaching.
• Assigns staff RNs patient care assignments.
• Supervises, supports and coaches others in utilizing the nursing process with all patients on the unit.
• Assists others in utilizing available care‑planning resources; assigns RNs to attend and participate in multidisciplinary case‑management meetings.
• Demonstrates nursing process consistently with all patients.
• Utilizes other health team members as resources.

• Reviews nursing process documentation done by unit personnel, as delegated by the Unit Director.
• Assists the Unit Director in identifying unit educational needs in relation to the nursing process.
• Assists the Unit Director and staff to evaluate outcomes of patient‑care conferences in terms of productivity and interaction of group members.
• Monitors and evaluates the quality of care being delivered to patients in the assigned unit.
• Monitors the quality of and outcomes of patient/family teaching done on assigned units.

• Consistently strives to understand, anticipate and meet the needs, expectations and satisfaction levels of patients, physicians and other customers.
• All interactions are conducted in a professional manner; is supportive and consistently demonstrates the Target 100 standards.
• Promptly addresses all negative patient complaints with the appropriate staff person or department to ensure satisfactory resolution.
• Verbal and written feedback from patients, family members/significant…