Nurse Manager, Foster Wing & Dialysis

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Exemption Status: Exempt

Hiring Range: $ - $

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate's experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations
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Schedule Details: Monday through Friday

Scheduled

Hours:

8:00am-4:00pm

Shift: 1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours: 40

Cost Center: 24050 - 0110 Nursing Admin

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver - regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other.

And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Clinical Practice, Patient Flow, Patient

Experience:

• 1. Leads with high reliability principles framework with goal of zero harm.
• 2. Is responsible for a positive work environment that is safe for patients, visitors and staff.
• 3. Accountable for clinical practice and deployment of resources at the unit level to ensure ongoing implementation of nursing process and adherence to standards.
• 4. Conducts daily patient care rounds, assessing patient care requirements and monitoring nursing & ancillary staff performance to achieve safe, cost effective and quality patient care.
• 5. Directs the oversight of clinical practice through continuity of nursing assignments to optimize the patient plan of care.
• 6. Responsible to oversee that the nursing process is being utilized for each patient and a plan of care is established, coordinated, and delivered to each patient and family.
• 7. Creates and sustains a collaborative, patient-focused environment supporting excellence in clinical and service practices.
• 8. Assures the efficient daily operations of assigned unit(s), including appropriate staffing levels, equipment and supplies, bed and/or examination room management, workflow and productivity to meet patient needs.
• 9. Implements nursing standards, policies and procedures.
• 10. Accountable to hold multidisciplinary rounds for team lead review of care plans on the unit with providers, nursing, and ancillary team.
• 11. Maintains compliance with regulatory standards including, but not limited to, JC and DPH.
• 12. Ensures unit-based standards of care are in accordance with departmental, organizational and/or compliance related standards.
• 13. Maintains and displays knowledge of current profession/clinical issues and practices through participation in professional organization and certification in field of nursing.
• 14. Demonstrates and role model's principles of ethical professional nursing practice.
• 15. Participates in Nursing Staff Organization; a shared governance model of practice through membership in nursing leadership council. Represents the department of nursing in various committees and task force activities throughout the medical center.
• 16. Coordinates team huddles during the day and in the evening to review new admissions, patient progression towards goals and discharge plan. Reports significant huddle outcomes to unit-director.
• 17. Accountable to patient experience outcomes in designated area.

Leadership/Management, Human Resources:

• 1. Responsible for appropriate staffing levels, scheduling, hiring, and budgeting.
• 2. Assesses candidates, through behavioral and peer interviewing, for appropriate positions within the unit and makes recommendations for hire, transfers, promotions and/or other staff changes.
• 3. Partners with Safety Specialists for orientation of new clinical staff.
• 4. Provides clinical and administrative oversight of all staff and completion of specific performance reviews.
• 5. Assures appropriate orientation, competence assessment, in-service training and continuing education for all staff.
• 6. Ensures the proper documentation for recruiting, on-boarding, evaluating and terminating staff are completed timely and thoroughly. (i.e. position requisition, orientation checklist, separation).
• 7. Assures licensing certification for all staff is current.
• 8. Ensures job descriptions are reflective of current job duties and responsibilities and performance evaluations are completed for staff timely according to HR policies.
• 9. Fosters an awareness of the diversity that exists within the organization and strives to increase it by including culture, ethnicity, gender and age; promoting an environment that is sensitive to the needs of diverse populations.
• 10. Leads and influences the development of staff by creating a practice climate of…