Clinical Nurse Manager SCMC Surgery Department Monday-Friday at White River Health System Inc – Mountain View, Arkansas

Safety Sensitive

Clinical Nurse Manager SCMC Surgery Department

Job Summary:

The Clinical Nurse Manager is responsible and accountable for the delivery of safe, effective, direct and indirect, patient-family centered care through the continuum of perioperative care to include

• Promote the mission, vision, and values of the organization
• Ensures the smooth day to day flow of patients admitted and discharged from the unit.
• First to assume staffing for a scheduling need.
• Ensures completion of patient pre-op and post-op phones calls.
• Audits records and collaborates with the Nursing Director for implementation and evaluation of quality improvement activities to ensure the ongoing quality of patient care.
• Completes responsibilities in a timely manner through effective organization, setting priorities, delegation, and time management skills.
• Develops implements and ensures compliance with WRHS’s policies and procedures, regulatory and legal requirements and current health care standards.
• Participate in interviews for perioperative management personnel selection.
• Verify perioperative services compliance with organizational policies and procedures and regulatory and accreditation standards.
• Investigates risk management and patient/public relations issues and takes action, including reporting as appropriate.
• Supports shared leadership decision making through all aspects of the day to day operations of the unit such as allocation of resources, staffing, space, equipment/supplies and budgeting process.
• Accountable for medical equipment, maintaining supplies, surgical scheduling and billing and staff work schedules
• Assumes the responsibility for the evaluation, education and orientation of the personnel in the OR
• Works closely with physicians and CRNA’s to ensure quality and efficient patient care.
• Collaborates with the Nursing Director to monitor, review, justify and implement strategies to improve financial performance of the surgery department.
• Pursue professional growth and participates in a professional organization.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervision
  
  

Leadership:

• Represents department by actively participating on WRHS committees, councils, teams and community activities
• Supports Evidenced Based Practices by initiating and facilitating changes to improve patient care through literature reviews, nursing research, journal clubs, and shared leadership.
• Serves as role model and mentor by consistently demonstrating professionalism.
• Assumes responsibility for professional development and integration of acquired knowledge and skills into practice.
• Contributes to nursing management education and professional development of staff, students and colleagues in an environment of mutual respect and understanding
• Decisions and actions are based on ethical principles and foster a non-discriminatory climate in which care is delivered in a manner sensitive to socio-cultural diversity.
• Utilizes the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice and the Code of Ethics for nurses with Interpretive Statements as the foundation for nursing practice
• Promotes satisfaction of internal and external customers.
• Evaluate factors related to safety, outcomes effectiveness, cost and social impact when developing and implementing practice innovations.

Essentials:

Physical Demands:

Job responsibilities may require a considerable amount of physical work. The individual will be required to assist with lifting and moving patients, pushing of carts, wheelchairs, and other equipment; and lifting or pushing of up to 25 pounds. The individual must be able to bend over to perform certain duties, e.g., check chest tube drainage, check urinary output, etc. The individual must also be able to maneuver throughout the halls, stairways, and patient rooms in response to hospital emergencies. Interpretation of environmental input requires visual and auditory skills. A significant amount of writing and computer entry is required.