Overview

Responsibilities

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  Leadership / Management Effectiveness
  This job is performed satisfactorily when:
  
  • Promotes the hospital image and maintains a helpful attitude towards employees, physician, visitors, and the community to enhance the hospital?s reputation as a healthcare provider.
  • Presents self in a positive manner reflected by personal attire and etiquette.
  • Maintains confidentiality of hospital/departmental Information.
  • Strives for operational excellence within Nursing Services to ensure the delivery of quality nursing services in accordance with applicable policies and procedures and professional standards.
  • Responds to day to day operational situations within the hospital in an appropriate manner, communicates with staff, visitors and physicians as necessary to promote a positive outcome.
  • Maintains effective and appropriate staffing as evidenced by ongoing budgetary analysis in interdisciplinary collaboration with departmental leaders.
  • Conducts effective coaching that is consistent with Human Resources Policies.
  • Maintains contact with Managers to inform about coaching events.
  • Effectively supervises, coordinates, and directs hospital operational functions (e.g. Incident Command and initiating emergency procedures).
  • Promotes and monitors services and programs as reviewed by the Chief Nursing Officer and Nursing Services (e.g. Nursing driven protocols and hourly rounding).
  • Serves as a role model for all employees by adherence to and reflected in a positive attitude towards hospital policies, programs and activities.
  • Assist material management department with provision of patient care equipment as needed.
  • Facilitate activities that contribute to patient throughput from Emergency, admission to units through discharge (e.g. direct admissions, EMS)
  • Researching and securing necessary resources to support patient care and site safety.
• Communication / Team Work
  This job is performed satisfactorily when:
  
  • Responsible for communication that ensures information is shared for effective operations.
  • Seeks out, understands, listens and conveys clear information as needed in written and verbal forms.
  • Provides accurate and timely information for shift report.
  • Demonstrates ability to implement problem-solving mechanisms in both routine and emergency situations.
  • Investigates and responds appropriately to all complaints and takes effective service recovery corrective action when necessary in accordance with policies and procedures.
  • Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve interpersonal or professional conflicts when dealing with members of the organization.
  • Consistently demonstrates tact, courtesy and positive attitude in communications and interactions with other employees, visitors, physicians and the public. At all times presents the department and the hospital in a positive manner.
  • Demonstrates willingness and ability to initiate and implement change. Communicates problems to appropriate managers, department director and/or as needed or as they occur.
• Operations Management
  
  • On Site Command Center leader including establish the command center or facilitating emergency response.
  • Implement of surge plan as needed.
  • Recognize patient volume and safety concerns and escalate to appropriate leadership if diversion needs to be considered.
  • Partner with other facilities System wide to address operational capacity concerns across WellStar facilities.
  • Manage flow and release of deceased patients.
  • Efficient utilization of product, supplies, and equipment to ensure timely and safe patient care.
  • Respond to hospital-wide Code calls and facilitate adherence to established protocols (at some sites-may be involved in Rapid Response calls).
  • Any other duties as assigned.

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  Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Qualifications

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  Baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited/approved school of nursing Required and
• MSN, MBA or MHA Preferred and
• As of 07/01/2017, leaders without a bachelor degree are grandfathered in the role Required

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  Minimum 2 years clinical experience required and additional two years of nursing leadership or supervisory role Required

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  Should possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and relationship building; a knowledge of the health care environment; leadership that includes such skills 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.
• Should be able to apply principles of managerial and leadership theory.
• Must be proficient in clinical technology (e.g. Epic).
• Must be proficient in computers skills such as; scheduling and other office software (e.g. SmartSquare, MS Word).
• Must be 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 is 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.

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  Reg Nurse (Single State) 1.00 Required 1.00
• RN - Multi-state Compact 1.00 Required 1.00
• Basic Life Support 2.00 Required 2.00
• BLS - Instructor Required
• BLS - Provisional Required
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support 3.00 Preferred 3.00
• ACLS - Instructor Preferred
• ACLS - Provisional Preferred