Job Position: Nurse Manager Surgical Services
Location: Hopewell, VA
Duration: Direct Hire
Shift: Full-time Days
Position Summary:
- Demonstrates clinical competence to practice within Departmental Scope of Care.
- Manages day to day operations of assigned nursing unit ensuring decisions, actions and group performance contributes to achievement of the unit, department, and hospital's goals and mission.
- Communicates effectively with staff, peers, Clinical Coordinator, external and internal customers.
- Utilizes quality improvement as basis to improve unit/departmental process.
- Maintains unit readiness for regulatory surveys.
- Coordinates the financial and clinical operations of assigned area(s) of responsibility and recommends sufficient number of qualified competent persons to provide care. Participates in outside source selection for needed services.
- Integrates department services with the hospital’s primary function maintaining communication with medical and nursing staffs, Administration, patients, and their families/significant others.
- Coordinates and integrates services within department.
- Promotes the Quality Management program of the facility, maintaining appropriate quality control programs (where applicable) as well as provides recommendations for operational, clinical and financial improvements.
- Ensures compliance with regulatory agencies and reports necessary noncompliance to Surgical Services Director in real time.
- Assures that orientation, in-service training, and continuing education are provided for persons in the department.
- Develops and participates in goals and objectives for assigned area(s) of responsibility.
- Ensures operational processes are efficient in meeting benchmark metrics
- Establishes and maintains positive and professional relationships with the entire medical staff.
- Assumes accountability for decisions and actions.
- Pursues own professional growth and development.
Qualifications:
- Education: BSN Required.
- License/ Certification:
Registered Nurse – Currently licensed as a registered professional nurse in the state in which he or she practices, in accordance with law and regulation. - Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 180 days of employment start date.
- PALS must be obtained within 180 days of employment start date
Experience:
- Required: OR at a minimum or combined experience of Endoscopy and PACU together
5+ years of nursing with some leadership experience – will accept charge nurse or coordinator experience - NO MINIMUM AMOUNT OF LEADERSHIP EXP REQUIRED