Clinical Manager CE Intermediate Care

Job Details

Department: 34414 Advocate Lutheran General Hospital - Med Surg: IU 3 Center

Status: Full time

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Hours Per Week: 40

Schedule Details/Additional Information: Monday - Friday

Pay Range: $50.05 - $75.10

• Serves as chief retention officer for unit/dept.
• Fosters peer preceptor and mentoring relationships within staff.
• Mentors staff in career and professional development.
• Supports “new hires” through a structured orientation program. Coaches and provides feedback to orientees.
• Articulates and understands clinical nursing practice issues and provides staff with necessary resources to deliver nursing care.
• Involves RNs and other unit staff in unit governance and mentors leadership skills.
• Encourages and role models reward and recognition programs.
• Recognizes staff who perform exemplary customer service.
• Implements flexible scheduling and staffing models.
• Monitors and documents performance of staff and takes appropriate disciplinary measures when necessary.
• Monitors unit retention, conducts exit interviews and acts on them.
• Utilizes internal resources to plan, develop, implement and evaluate orientation programs, inservice education, and professional growth and development programs for staff.
• Maintains effective working relations with both internal and external customers.
• Assures that education relevant to patient/family needs are implemented.
• Collaborates with physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals to assure delivery of quality care.
• Actively participates in hospital committees and continuous quality improvement projects.
• Collaborates with peers in the integration of clinical standards to meet patient and unit needs.
• Coordinates with internal/external customers to facilitate patient satisfaction as well as cost effectiveness.
• Manages, develops, implements and evaluates standards of nursing to facilitate quality patient care, efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• Provides strategic planning and direction for the implementation of unit goals and implements change to enhance effectiveness of patient care.
• Continually monitors compliance with all regulatory agency standards, policies/procedures at the unit level.
• Fosters an environment of clinical excellence.
• Collaborates with the medical director and nursing staff to jointly plan patient care, develop education opportunities for staff and resolve interdisciplinary conflicts.
• Establishes staffing requirements and plans for appropriate utilization of human resources.
• Assesses acuity, caseload and complexity of patients to determine staffing levels.
• Assumes 24‑hour accountability for assigned area of operation.
• Annually reviews and approves all departmental standards of care, policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Establishes in conjunction with the medical director and care coordinator criteria for monitoring of quality indicators in accordance with Lutheran General Hospital quality management program.
• Develops and implements quality improvement processes in response to nurse sensitive, hospital and system quality indicators, to improve patient care outcomes.
• Prepares departmental budgets (supplies, equipment, personnel). Responsible for budget management and performance and fiscal oversight of all areas of responsibility.
• Prepares an annual budget and monitors budgetary expenditures. Reports, and implements a plan to address variances on an ongoing basis.
• Develops major equipment purchase proposals.
• Develops new and expanding program proposals with cost/budget implications.
• Determines priority levels of capital and completes feasibility studies as needed in collaboration with the Director of Nursing and Finance.
• Ensures that all departmental expenses are processed appropriately, timely, and according to Advocate’s financial control policy and corporate compliance guidelines.
• Identifies inventory levels and costs of supplies maintained in the area.
• Monitors utilization of staff, supplies, and equipment for optimal efficiency, and makes recommendations as appropriate.
• Ensures charges are entered appropriately on a daily basis.
• Appropriately manages budgeted vs. actual FTEs, open requisitions, profile processing, performance…