Division: Eskenazi Health
Sub-Division: Hospital
Req ID: 22983
Schedule : Full Time
Shift : Nights
Eskenazi Health serves as the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County. Physicians provide a comprehensive range of primary and specialty care services at the 327-bed hospital and outpatient facilities both on and off of the Eskenazi Health downtown campus as well as at 10 Eskenazi Health Center sites located throughout Indianapolis.
Job Role Summary
The Clinical Manager, RN weeknights, is responsible for personnel in operational areas including quality, and regulatory readiness, managing daily operations and productivity, and engages team members to achieve organizational goals.
Acuity Adaptable Care at Eskenazi Health represents a broad spectrum of inpatient services across 3 floors of our acute care hospital. Patients admitted to an acuity adaptable unit at Eskenazi Health receive services from a wide variety of clinical specialties including: orthopedics, oncology, cardiology, palliative care, neurology, trauma, medicine, renal, urology, pulmonology, infectious disease, and more. Patients vary in acuity and complexity, ranging from Med/Surg to high acuity Progressive Care status.
Acuity Adaptable offers all private rooms as well as telemetry monitoring capability.
The department follows a primary care nursing model and typically utilizes a 1:4 nurse-to-patient ratio .
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
• Proactively contributes to Eskenazi Health’s mission: Advocate, Care, Teach, and Serve with special emphasis on the vulnerable population of Marion County; models Eskenazi Health PRIDE values
• Knowledge of practice standards for all who deliver care and IN Nurse Practice Act
• Rounds for outcomes with patients, families, and staff
• Establishes and maintains collegial/effective working relationships with providers and team
• Participates in and supports the role of nursing shared governance councils at the unit and hospital level to achieve departmental and organizational goals and active member of PCLC
• Demonstrates effective problem solving, critical thinking and decision-making skills
• Promotes a healthy work environment, presents themselves as an open leader, and actively seeks to solve staff and patient care issues as evidenced by low turnover and high participation in engagement surveys
• Participates in Eskenazi Health committees, workgroups, and projects
• Demonstrates understanding of customer service concepts and objectively investigates service/care complaints to provide appropriate follow up in collaboration with The Office of Patient Experience
• Reviews and shares patient experience data and feedback with staff
• Can perform as a Staff Nurse II/Shift Coordinator/Charge Nurse to support the staff and provide patient care when needed
• Continuously reviews performance improvement initiatives at the unit(s) level with interprofessional teams
• Participates in identifying departmental goals/metrics and monitors dashboards
• Understands, promotes, and complies with regulatory standards
• Participates in financial stewardship for unit
• Monitors and adjusts staffing patterns to meet unit productivity
• Effectively utilizes staffing resources to provide quality patient care while maintaining a safe work environment
• Completes payroll
• Recognizes and support successes, serving as a mentor for new clinical managers and nursing leadership students.
• Ensures staff attend/participate in appropriate and ongoing training for their unit/role
• Consistently shares and communicates unit and EH information to team members
• Meets with staff to discuss performance, accountability, and professional growth, while effectively coaching, mentoring, and providing corrective action in line with organizational goals and policies
• Works as nursing clinical manager on the night shift and/or weekends
Job Requirements
• Minimum of bachelor's degree in nursing
• Current Indiana license as a Registered Nurse
• RN degree from a nationally accredited college or university
• Current BLS certification; other certifications may be required in specific units to practice
• 3 years clinical experience with demonstrated leadership skills
• Maintains professional development through a variety of activities such as national certification, ongoing education, conferences, mentorship’s, teaching and participating in nursing organizations
• Meet the requirements of Staff Nurse II/Shift Coordinator/Charge nurse job description and can function as a Staff Nurse II
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
• Knowledge of current medical practice, nursing theory, disease management, legal aspects pertaining to departmental practice.
• Demonstrates effective problem solving, negotiation, decision-making and good listening skills.
• Exhibits strong interpersonal skills
• Proficient use of technology as it relates to your department
• Provides care appropriate to the age of patients served.
• Ability to use age-appropriate communication and cognitive skills detailed in the department/area/unit job specific/age specific competencies.
FLSA Status
Non-Exempt
Accredited by The Joint Commission and named one of the nation’s 150 best places to work by Becker’s Hospital Review for four consecutive years and Forbes list of best places to work for women, and Forbes list of America’s best midsize employers’ Eskenazi Health’s programs have received national recognition while also offering new health care opportunities to the local community. As the sponsoring hospital for Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services, the city’s primary EMS provider, Eskenazi Health is also home to the first adult Level I trauma center in Indiana, the only verified adult burn center in Indiana, the first community mental health center in Indiana and the Eskenazi Health Center Primary Care – Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, just to name a few.
