Nurse Manager, OP

Are you looking to step into a great Leadership opportunity and enhance your experience as a Registered Nurse?

UPMC Western Maryland is looking to hire a Nurse Manager, OP to support our Clinically Integrated Network.

This is a dayshift position, no weekends or holidays required!

Previous care coordination, project management, and team-building experience preferred.

Purpose:
The Nurse Practice Manager maintains full accountability for leading and managing the human resources, clinical, financial and administrative operations of an assigned practice(s) in order to continuously improve the quality of patient care and create a healthy workplace for staff in collaboration with organizational leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Determine and flex staffing standards based on patient care needs, patient flow, medical acuity, procedures, staff skills, and other clinical needs.
• Assume accountability for day-to-day operations of the practice while continuing to function clinically when necessary.
• Serve as the departmental role model in all aspects of patient and community care.
• Incorporate national professional organization as well as business unit and health system's goals to improve patient safety, quality, and satisfaction.
• Create a caring and compassionate patient-focused experience by building healing relationships with patients, families, and colleagues.
• The Nurse Manager is administratively accountable for the management of all activity within the practice. Demonstrates the ability to create a shared vision that applies to critical thinking skills and utilizes financial and quality data and conceptual knowledge in the development of the department vision and operational plan. Orchestrates complex change and acknowledges the psychological transition on self and others. Involves stakeholders and experts in planning, designing and redesigning change. Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifying one's own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals involved. Supports staff during times of difficult transitions.

• Minimum 5 years Nursing Experience required.
• Progressive leadership experience with relevant clinical experience preferred.
• BSN or Bachelors in related health care field required.
• MSN or Masters in a health care field preferred.
  
  Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
• Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse either in the state where the facility is located or in a state covered by a licensure compact agreement with the state where the facility is located.
• CPR Certification CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire

• Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state.