Description

The Nurse Manager is responsible for assigned patient care area with 24 hour accountability and for ensuring effective delivery of evidenced-based practice of clinical patient care and compliance with administrative and clinical policies and procedures. The Nurse Manager utilizes Transformational Leadership qualities including visionary capabilities and abilities to empower others with this vision, focused on meeting the needs and values of followers to motivate high performance in order to assure organizational success and goal attainment.

Core Competencies

Creates a culture of effective communication and promotes positive working relationships with internal and external customers. Operationalizes the Shared Decision Making Model of nursing practice and integrates point of care staff into decision making. Communicates policies, standards, institutional changes, safety information and clinical information integral to the position. Demonstrates the values of the organization daily in actions and communication as evidenced by Peer Evaluation; Meeting targeted Patient Satisfaction Scores; Meeting targeted Employee Satisfaction scores; Meeting targeted NDNQI survey scores. Utilizes manager rounding to communicate with patients and families to enhance the patient experience. Communicates significant unit issues utilizing chain of command Ensures unit based patient satisfaction scores meet or exceed the targeted benchmark Ensures employee pride and satisfaction meet or exceed targeted percentile of all Southern California hospitals Follows up on all patient and family service issues within 24 business hours Utilizes professional, respectful, effective communication to delegate and direct unit activities and patient assignments. Delegates responsibilities appropriate to licensure, education, and experience of staff. Conducts a minimum of ten staff meetings per year. Reports quality data and performance improvement progress, administrative initiatives and strategic plan to unit staff regularly Reviews and follows up on incident reports and reports trends to staff. Participates and facilitates/sponsor for unit based council when applicable. Evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, nursing services and healthcare delivery for assigned area and the integration of evidence based clinical services within their assigned unit. Creates a professional practice environment that fosters excellence in nursing services. Communicates expected standards of care clearly. Develops and monitors annual goals for improving customer satisfaction, quality, and cost containment and reports trends to staff

Department Specific Competencies

Education
Degree	Program
Bachelors	Nursing
Additional Information

Experience
Number of Years Experience	Type of Experience
N/A
Additional Information
2 years in your area of practice

License / Certification Requirements

ACLS Certification PALS Certification

Registered Nurse License

Certification in clinical specialty or leadership

Compensation Range $57.16 - $95.08 / Hour