Facility: Kennestone Hospital

Responsibilities
Core Responsibilites and Essential Functions:

This person will oversee the float pool, and other workforce managment programs with 5 direct reports . Need experience in patient flow (bed planning, throughput, and ensuring flow for the Emergency Department)

• Exemplary Practice and Outcomes
  * a.Holds self and staff to the highest professional standards and ethics ensuring corporate compliance standards etc. are met by leaders and staff. Is an active member of one’s professional community and serves as a role model for professional nursing practice and nursing leadership – advances the field through transformational executive leadership, support of shared governance, and scholarly activity
  * b.Successfully works with the nurse manager to employ change management strategies and instills in self and others the curiosity to explore new knowledge and ideas.
• Resources and Support
  * a.Engages leaders in decision- making and partners with others to promote patient centered care and service excellence while effectively providing leadership and management skills for a specific business/clinical unit, possesses strong and effective negotiation and mediation skills
  * b.Serves to support the nurse managers to promote the effective running of the care delivery system and ensures that the clinical processes of care are working as intended. Serves as a resource for all leaders and accepts additional leadership responsibilities
  * c. Analyzes and manages financial resources; uses lean and other quality skills to reduce waste and improve performance of operations and clinical systems of care; integrates marketing and communication strategies to advance one’s service line and organization as a whole
  * d.Hires and develops an engaged team of leaders and staff that raises each other’s performance to achieve top percentile standing in all pillar goals
• Interdisciplinary Teamwork and Collaboration
  * a.Effectively communicates to diverse audiences on nursing, health care and organizational issues and this includes the ability to set standards and holds leaders and staff accountable for performance standards. Proactively establishes a health work place by reducing unnecessary conflict - resolves it when necessary – promotes and achieves positive team dynamics
  * b.Establishes partnerships by employing strong relationship building skills with all hospital leaders and medical staff by striving to understand others (and situations) and keeping the long view in mind – is fair and just using reflective practice skills to monitor self and leader performance/interaction skills exercising coaching and guiding skills
  * c.Creates opportunities for self and leaders to grow professionally and implements a desirable workplace to recruit and retain talented leaders and staff
• Professional Development
  * a.Seeks opportunities to advance knowledge and skills through formal and information education offerings to enhance one’s understanding of how healthcare is financed and how to manage a diverse nursing workforce.
  * b.Represents the organization positively to the community, building credibility and willingness to serve on committees and taskforces as needed to share knowledge and skill; champion a service line or need; and seeks opportunities to advance skill and scope of responsibilities
• Evidence Based Practice and Research
  * a.Effectively identifies areas of improvement of leaders and clinical systems and sponsors projects to improve the same. Includes assuring nursing division meets or exceeds licensure, regulatory and accreditation standards.
  * b.Applies the effective use of data and evidence to support decision making for clinical and operational responsibilities and demonstrates awareness of legal and ethical issues related to patient and staff data, information and confidentiality
• Required for All Jobs
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.
• Qualifications
  Required Minimum Education
• Bachelor's Degree Baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN) from accredited nursing schools Required and
• Master's Degree in Nursing Required or
• in related field Required
• Required Minimum Experience
• Minimum 7 years of experience as a Registered Nurse; includes 3-5 years of progressive operational leadership in an assistant manager or manager role.
• Required Minimum Skills
• Should possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and relationship building;
• a knowledge of the health care environment;
• leadership that includes such skills as successfully implementing and managing a change process – ability to use systems thinking- and inspire, coach others to be successful;
• model the way for professional practice;
• professionalism and teamwork/collaboration for self/department/medical staff;
• and possess necessary business skills to manage human and material resources.
• Must be a continuous learner who understands health care financing;
• strategy and operations for running a business unit(s);
• and effectively employ data and technology to support work processes and make decisions.
• Supports shared governance or shared decision making;
• manage the design and delivery of care that in based on evidence and focused on quality and safety.
• Knowledge of risk management and various accreditation/regulations/licensing requirements assuring that these are upheld while advancing industry standards through the achievement of goals by effective management and measurement of outcomes.
• Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s)
• Reg Nurse (Single State) Required
• RN - Multi-state Compact Required
• Basic Life Support Required
• BLS - Instructor Required
• BLS - Provisional Required
• Additional Licenses and Certifications