Rn - Clinical Manager - Specialty - Ft - Nights, Sign On Bonus $20,000, Mrh: Mrh - Emergency Room

Summary

Manages the daily operations of the assigned department, unit, or function to ensure alignment with departmental and organizational objectives. May provide direct care to patients.

Detailed Responsibilities

• Assists with developing specific departmental goals, standards, and objectives which directly support the strategic plan and vision of the organization.
• Manages staff relations including performance management, staff satisfaction and conflict management. May oversee scheduling, recruitment, payroll and student engagements.
• Ensures regulatory compliance. Assist with the identification, determination and need for systems, equipment and supplies. Monitors usage, and oversees proper working order of equipment and ensures adequate supplies.
• Assesses the quality of patient care delivered. Evaluates needs of patients and families and provides patient and family centered care. Manages complaints and conflicts through to resolution.
• Plans, implements, and evaluates patient care based on patient assessment to optimize outcomes and maximize available resources. Monitors, documents and communicates patient condition as appropriate.

Essential

Competencies and skills:

• ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING: Uses decision making processes and tools to analyze situations and make effective decisions.
• RESPONDING TO CHANGE: Accepts change and adapts in a positive and productive manner; handles unexpected situations and changes in direction calmly and with confidence. Views new assignments and job responsibilities as an opportunity for growth.
• DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT PLAN OF CARE: Develops and implements a nursing care plan based on the patient's individual needs, an interdisciplinary approach, and evidence-based practices.
• STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR: Acts in a manner that supports the standards of communication, respect, privacy, and teamwork by demonstrating a commitment to professional and ethical conduct.
• PATIENT AND FAMILY CENTERED CARE: "Provides Patient and Family Centered Care to patients, families, visitors and internal customers"
• MANAGING PEOPLE: Uses HR/Performance Management processes and systems to align individual performance to achieve organizational results.
• PROFESSIONAL CREDIBILITY: Maintains a credible and professional image by modeling organizational values and exhibiting knowledge and skills required to contribute to team/department/organizational goals.
• ACCOUNTABILITY: Accepts ownership of job roles and specific assignments/goals; works independently, takes responsibility for own actions; admits mistakes and judgment errors; and accepts constructive feedback. Connects personal work results to the accomplishment of team and organizational goals.
• CUSTOMER SERVICE: Demonstrates commitment to service excellence by promptly addressing internal/external customer issues/requests, resolving concerns while maintaining a professional image and behavior to build and enhance the patient/family/customer experience.
• PATIENT SAFETY - NURSING: Complies with and ensures patient safety practices in the clinical setting.

Education

Essential:

• Accredited Program

Essential

Education specialization:

• Nursing

Credentials

Essential:

• Registered Nurse License
• BLS Certification
• ACLS Certification

Essential

Education equivalent experience:

Other Information

Complexity of Work: Requires critical thinking skills, effective communications skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.

Required Work Experience: Two (2) years nursing experience.

• Department specific credentials - See below- ONCC Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Provider Certificate Required for those RN's administering chemotherapy.- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) required for ICU, ED, PACU, Endo, Tele, OB, MHN Pre-Op and Specialty Procedural areas.- PALS required for Pediatric areas with the exception of NICU. Certification in Fetal Monitoring through National Credential Center or through AWOHNN (Intermediate or Advanced) for L&D RN's.- Newly licensed RN's have 6 months to obtain ACLS and/or PALS, and Fetal Monitoring if L&D.Note: For added clarification, see Mandatory Education Requirements Grid.

Essential

Working conditions:

• Squatting 80.00%
• Depth Perception 80.00%
• Lifting or Carrying 25.01 lbs - 75 lbs Non-Patient 40.00%
• Computer Monitor 80.00%
• Wet or Slippery Surfaces 80.00%
• Moving Mechanical Parts 40.00%
• Repetitive Movement Foot/Leg 40.00%
• Lifting/Carrying Patients 35 Pounds or Greater 80.00%
• Biological Hazards - Respiratory 80.00%
• Pushing or Pulling 0 - 25 lbs Non-Patient 80.00%
• Fire Risk 40.00%
• Smelling Acuity 40.00%
• Walking 80.00%
• Hazardous Medication 80.00%
• Potential Electric Shock 40.00%
• Dust 60.00%
• Lifting or Carrying 0 - 25 lbs Non-Patient 80.00%
• Repetitive Movement Hand/Arm 80.00%
• Gas/Vapors/Fumes 80.00%
• Seeing - Near 80.00%
• Standing 80.00%
• Sitting 60.00%
• Hearing Acuity 80.00%
• Keyboard Entry 80.00%
• Bending and Stooping 80.00%
• Seeing - Far 80.00%
• Pushing or Pulling 26 - 75 lbs Non-Patient 80.00%
• Communicable Diseases and/or Pathogens 80.00%
• Domestic Animals 40.00%
• Hazardous Chemicals 80.00%
• Audible Speech 80.00%
• Potential for Physical Assault 40.00%
• Distinguish Color 80.00%
• Running 40.00%
• Biological Hazards - Skin or Ingestion 80.00%
• Bio hazardous Waste 80.00%
• Cytotoxic Chemicals 60.00%
• Needles/Sharp Objects 80.00%
• Blood and/or Bodily Fluids 80.00%
• Climbing 40.00%
• Pushing or Pulling > 75 lbs Non-Patient 80.00%
• Kneeling 60.00%
• Magnetic Fields 40.00%
• Reaching 80.00%

Organizational Profile

Since the opening of the one-story, 100-bed Memorial Hospital in 1953, the South Florida community has benefited from caring and compassionate healthcare at Memorial Regional Hospital. Today, with 553 beds and as the flagship facility of Memorial Healthcare System, Memorial Regional Hospital is one of Florida’s largest and most sophisticated hospitals, offering leading-edge care and technologies. Services include:

• Women’s Services
• Memorial Neuroscience Institute
• Wasie Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• The Family Birthplace
• Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute
• Medical and Surgical Services
• Emergency Room and Level I Trauma Center
• Memorial Cancer Institute

We are also home to a team of dedicated professionals, all of whom deliver nationally recognized, award-winning care. Memorial Regional Hospital has received Press Ganey’s Guardian of Excellence Award for Patient Satisfaction (Inpatient Behavioral Health) for three consecutive years, has been recognized by Truven Health Analytics as one of the nation’s 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals, and for the last seven years has received the Gold Plus Achievement Award from the American Stroke Association.

Disclaimer: This job description is not intended, nor should it be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. It is intended to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification.