Nursing Supervisor; Ambulatory Care: Pediatric Infusion

NURSING SUPERVISOR (Ambulatory Care: Pediatric Infusion)

Purpose of Position: To assist the Senior Nursing Director in planning and management of the patient care services in Pediatric Infusion. To provide professional nursing leadership and administrative direction for nursing practice for Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses and assistive personnel. To participate as a member of an Ambulatory Care Unit's leadership team to provide and continually improve health care services and to support the mission and goals of Michigan Medicine.

To ensure the quality of nursing services provided to patients.

Organizational Relationships: Administratively responsible to the Senior Director for Ambulatory Care Services, with responsibility for nursing practice, administration of the nursing contract, and operational leadership. Works collaboratively with all members of the leadership teams across multiple departments and services.

Supervision Exercised: Responsible for professional practice and clinical competence for regular and temporary Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses. Works collaboratively with the ACU management teams in the management of support staff.

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan Medicine is comprised of over 30,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the world’s most distinguished academic health systems.

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• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your very first day
• 2:1 Match on retirement savings

• Creates job postings, recruits, interview and select nurses. Works collaboratively with leadership teams in the hiring process.
• Manages staffing and scheduling of nursing staff. Assists Senior Nursing Director in determining adequate complements of staff, scope of staff roles and appropriate workload. Manages or facilitates nursing relief staffing for multiple clinics.
• Provides supervision, counsel, discipline, and performance evaluation of nursing and as indicated, assigned clinical assistive staff, with feedback from medical faculty, peer groups, and ACU leadership teams.
• Manages the orientation and competency evaluation of nursing staff.
• Connects individually with each employee, increasing employee engagement scores and satisfaction.

• Serves as a role model, mentor and expert resource to nursing and assistive staff in the provision of direct patient care.
• Provides leadership for the development, implementation and evaluation of standards of nursing practice and interdisciplinary clinical guidelines.
• Facilitates and supports a nursing practice environment in which empowerment, responsibility, autonomy, accountability, collaboration and peer review are exercised.
• Develops standard processes and protocols to minimize variation, support efficient workflows, and confirm the right work is performed by the right role.

• Participates in planning and problem‑solving of daily unit operations and priorities of patient services.
• Participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of unit goals and objectives.
• Manages, directly and in collaboration with others, staffing, scheduling, benchmarking, work redesign and variances.
• Organizes and facilitates unit based educational activities and…