Registered Nurse Shift Manager; RN - Pre Op

Are you a results‑driven leader ready to make a meaningful impact on patients, caregivers, and your community? At Emanuel Medical Center Hospital, we are seeking an innovative and experienced healthcare leader to drive excellence and inspire our team toward exceptional patient outcomes and operational success.

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off
• Career development and continuing education opportunities
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flex‑spending accounts
• Employee assistance program, employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits including pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long‑term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance

Note:

Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status.

Shift: Rotate

Job type:
Part time

Reporting to the Nursing Department Director, the Registered Nurse Shift Manager utilizes the nursing process and organizational/leadership skills to coordinate services of staff to patients during the designated shift. Assures patient care is appropriate to the age and developmental level of patients served. Assesses staff need for the unit, collaborates with the staffing coordinator, Nurse Director, and Administrative Nursing Supervisor to ensure patient needs are met.

Supports Nursing Department Director on various administrative duties.

• Determines staffing requirements to assure safe and competent patient care. Considers patient acuity, age‑specific needs, staff skill mix, and individual patient’s plan of care when making assignments. Demonstrates flexibility in response to unexpected changes in volume, emergencies, staffing, or schedule changes.
• Assists the Nurse Director with employee evaluations and performance management. Utilizes observation techniques, chart review, and patient interviews to evaluate staff nurse performance and quality of patient care delivered.
• Monitors the safety of the work environment and maintains the unit in a state of readiness with regulatory agency compliance.
• Assists Director with schedules, time and attendance, quality improvement projects, reports, documents, and files.
• Supports nursing director with timekeeping and verifies accurate records.
• Seeks and accepts responsibility for committee participation, special projects, and teaching presentations.
• Adheres to practices for pain management with specific consideration of patient’s functional/developmental age, gender, cultural and/or personal preferences.
• Demonstrates appropriate use of restraints per policy and procedures.
• Ensures patient safety by assessing and proactively implementing safety measures such as fall, seizure and aspiration precautions and following isolation protocols.
• Provides appropriate nursing interventions. Competent in all routine nursing skills and identified unit‑specific skills.
• Demonstrates the ability to provide appropriate interventions during inpatient care emergencies and follows established emergency procedures.
• Determines the presence and type of advance directive, as appropriate. Contacts appropriate resources to assist the patient and family as needed.
• Delegates patient care tasks to ancillary personnel based on individual competency and scope of practice. Evaluates effectiveness of care performed.
• Assigns and provides, when needed, meal and rest periods for staff as required.
• Accesses facility information systems to retrieve and utilize pertinent information in the performance of job‑related responsibilities or for the provision of patient care, such as entering orders for laboratory, radiology, or other patient services.
• Communicates and follows the organization’s chain of command for notification of patient‑care and/or service issues.
• Responds promptly and courteously to patient needs throughout the shift. Answers lights and responds immediately to patient requests.
• Performs physical and psychosocial assessment of patients that demonstrates knowledge and consideration of age‑specific and cultural differences. Modifies nursing care to meet the age‑specific requirements of the…