Manager, RN, Emergency Department, Days, Full Time
Company: Adventist Health NW
Location: Delano
Posted on: June 14, 2022
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Job Description:
Adventist Health is more than an award-winning health system. We
provide whole-person care to our communities and champion the
greater good - from the operating room to the boardroom, we are
driven by our unique passion to live God's love through health,
wholeness and hope. From Oregon to Oahu, we have a calling to
always do more. Now is your chance to apply your passion to our
mission.
Adventist Health Delano opened its doors on January 17, 1974, as a
community hospital. Over nearly five decades, our hospital has
grown in both size and technological expertise. Located in the
second-largest city in Kern County, the cultural diversity in the
rural communities we serve brings vitality and energy to our
everyday lives. Our 156-bed medical center serves 10 rural Central
California cities and have always been committed to providing an
exceptional patient experience.
We're looking for someone to join our team as a Manager, RN
who:
Creates an environment where front line nurses and ancillary staff
provide whole person care that is safe, complication free, and
optimizes functional independence for each patient. Maintains a
highly-visible presence on the unit. Collaborates closely with
staff, charge nurses, physicians, and other department leaders to
ensure that clinical operations are efficient and effective, and
achieve high patient/family/staff satisfaction. Supervises and
directs the activities of various levels of assigned nursing and
ancillary personnel utilizing both professional and supervisory
discretion and independent judgment.
Essential Functions:
* Builds a high performing clinical work team by recruiting and
retaining skilled professional staff. Builds a strong
infrastructure with designated charge nurses and unit champions.
Engages staff in developing action plans for needed change to
create safe, desired outcomes. Completes periodic evaluations of
personnel supervised. Coaches and disciplines personnel when deems
appropriate. Monitors attendance. Works closely with staff, unit
champions, and the clinical educator to identify and meet
educational needs. Uses consistent exercise of discretion and
judgment.
* Sets and strives to achieve goals for patient safety, quality of
care and compliance with regulatory requirements. Creates a culture
of open communication. Develops strategies to improve
patient/family, and physician satisfaction. Establishes standards
of care for professional nursing practice that staff are held
accountable to. Monitors critical processes and outcomes of care
through audits, analysis of data, and complaints or incident
reports. Exercises discretion and independent judgment with respect
to matters of significance, evaluating and comparing possible
courses-of-action, and making decisions/recommendations after
considering the various possibilities.
* Conducts daily rounds with physicians and other staff and
actively communicates, as needed, to coordinate appropriate care
for patients and families. Directs/monitors personnel in the
performance of patient care activities in order to ensure adequate
patient care and quality of work. Investigates and resolves patient
care and operational issues, as needed. Initiates and coordinates
individual and team conferences with health team members, patients,
and/or families to initiate and revise care plans for optimal,
individualized patient care as per care setting.
* Assesses the personnel requirements of the unit on a daily basis
and requests additional personnel when determines they are
necessary. Authorizes and assigns overtime to personnel when
independently determines this to be appropriate. Completes monthly
unit staff schedule on time, accurately, and in collaboration with
staff members and management with minimal incidents of absence or
unbalanced/short staffing events.
* Facilitates throughput through early discharge of patients,
pull-ahead beds, and timely admission/transfer of patients and
forecasting admission. Works with facility services to assure that
the department and equipment is maintained to be safe and
operational. Prevents complications of care including nosocomial
infections. Conducts emergency preparedness reviews.
You'll be successful with the following qualifications:
Education:
* Bachelor's Degree in nursing or equivalent combination of
education/related experience: Required
* Master's Degree: Preferred
Work Experience:
* Five year's technical experience: Preferred
* One year's leadership experience: Preferred
* Two years experience of acute care nursing in hospital setting:
Preferred
Required Licenses/Certifications:
* Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) or Basic Life Support (BLS)
certification: Preferred
* National specialty certification in area of expertise or in
nursing administration: Preferred
* Registered Nurse (RN) licensed in state of practice: Required
Adventist Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of our
associates and patients. Therefore, we require that all associates
receive all required vaccinations, including, but not limited to,
measles, mumps, flu (based on the seasonal availability of the flu
vaccine typically during October-March each year), COVID-19 vaccine
(required in CA, HI and OR) etc., as a condition of employment, and
annually thereafter. Medical and religious exemptions may
apply.
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