What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Manager position at Townsen Memorial Hospital?
Townsen Memorial Hospital is looking for a Nurse Manager to join our team in our NEW Bellaire, TX location!
The Nurse Manager is responsible for overseeing the professional nursing care for the patient during the pre- and postoperative course. The Nurse Manager helps maintain the day-to-day operations and ensure processes are being monitored and actioned as needed.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Manager:
- Responsible for day-to-day operations of surgical services
- Monitor and reinforces policies, procedures, and ethical conduct
- Provide oversight and training to all staff reporting to surgical services manager
- Resolve issues in a real-time environment, including customer service issues and patient complaints
- Oversee staff regarding work assignments, clinical priorities, and performance issues of clinical staff
- Monitor budget and assist accountants with invoice verification for payments
- Develop and implement office policies and procedures
- Ordering medical and office supplies
- Understanding the financial background of the office
- Review and approves employee timesheets
- Help to build a culture of respect, accountability, and trust
- Ensure compliance with current healthcare regulations, medical laws, and high ethical standards
- Perform other related duties as assigned to support the hospital
Clinical:
- Ensure supplies and equipment needed are available and in good working order
- Monitor the patient’s medical condition and reports any significant changes to the admitting physician or
- Assure surgical consent, pre-operative test results and History and Physical are in the medical record prior to proposed procedure
- Report any important health history facts to the operating room nurse/medical director
- Document patient care delivered accurately in the medical record
- Implement doctor’s orders in a timely and accurate manner
- Educate patients and family
- Give patients and family members emotional support, as necessary
- Explain nursing procedures and actions taken to help reduce anxiety
- Develop and maintains an effective working relationship with patients, families, visitors, and other facility employees
- Document concisely, precisely, and accurately on all records or documents as indicated by policy
- Make decisions using evidence based analytical approach
- Plan for routine events and anticipates/prevents and manages/evaluates emergent situations
- Complete patient care responsibilities in a timely manner with accurate documentation
- Use downtime efficiently, aware of team members workload, offers assistance and responds positively to requests
- Effectively acclimate to various work schedules to achieve high quality of care
- Protect patient and family privacy rights and maintains confidentiality of patient records in accordance with policy and procedure and HIPAA requirements
- Follow all safety rules on the job, report all accidents promptly and corrects minor safety hazards. Communicates with peers and management regarding any hazards identified in the workplace
- Maintain established Facility/Departmental policies and procedures
- Adhere to the company standards of business conduct
- Perform other related duties as assigned to support the hospital
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Strong nursing knowledge and skills in clinical area(s) of responsibility
- Exercises good judgment, demonstrates effective critical thinking skills
- Flexible, able to prioritize and address multiple responsibilities concurrently
- Works effectively under stress and frequently changing job requirements/situations
- Strong organization and communication skills
- Strong attention to detail and thorough in completing assigned tasks
- Ability to adequately diagnose, plan and implement nursing interventions and evaluate patient condition
- Compliance with facility policies and procedures
- Compliance with continuing and mandatory education programs
- Understand and maintain clinical competencies (general, age specific and drug administration)
- Demonstrate clinical problem solving and critical thinking
- Adapt to unexpected changes
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Current and unencumbered RN license in the State of Texas
- Five (5) years of perioperative nursing experience
- One (1) year of nursing leadership experience
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certified
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certified or must be obtained within thirty (30) days of hire
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certified or must be obtained within thirty (30) days of hire
Townsen Memorial Hospital is an accredited network of facilities with an emphasis on emergency care, outpatient surgery, and diagnostics and imaging. Our core mission is to provide compassionate, evidence-based patient care to those we serve. At Townsen Memorial, we encompass diversity, dignity, and inclusiveness as a reflection of our core values. Townsen Memorial is committed to driving cutting edge healthcare to our patients, our communities and each other.
Compensation to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
Employment for this position is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and drug screening.
Compensation to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
Employment for this position is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and drug screening.
