Summary:
Under the direction of the Nursing Director, works with the Department RN Manager in planning, implementing and coordinating the operational, financial and personnel activities of the designated area(s). Provides clinical and operational leadership for assigned unit(s) which includes hands-on unit presence and direction in facilitating provision of patient care and achieving organizational outcomes.
Type of Opportunity: Full Time
FTE: 1.000000
Exempt: Yes
Work Schedule: Days
Responsibilities:
Leadership Competencies
A. Leads Self: Foundational knowledge of the master competencies
B. Leads Team: Ability to manage and direct team and unit operations
C. Leads PHS: Ability to achieve results
a. Performance Dimensions
i. Managing the Business
1. Clinical practice knowledge: Subject matter expert in the service area. Guides, mentors, provides support, holds staff accountable to care processes supporting clinical care practice in service area(s).
2. Human resources: Contributes to the recruitment, interviewing, selection of potential candidates.
3. Orientation of new staff: Participates in driving the orientation process including the selection of preceptors, monitoring, and analysis of processes to attain the desired outcomes of orientation processes and retention of new hires.
4. Labor Laws: Provides an on-going presence to facilitate and drive an environment that maintains compliance with state and federal labor laws.
5. Process Improvement: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care to achieve quality indicators/targets, utilization of performance tools to improve processes and outcomes, optimizing patient safety, optimizes communication between all work groups, and hardwires processes to support continuous regulatory readiness, monitoring.
6. Foundational thinking: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care to support integration of work models and evidence-based practice to the bedside.
7. Technology: Proficient in using computer based skills/applications, clinical based technologies supporting patient care including electronic medical record, medication management. Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care integrates technology into patient care processes. Acts as a super-user to support deployment and integration of health care technologies into patient care practices.
8. Strategic management: Contributes to and drives work plans at the point of care to achieve optimal patient care and organizational results to the point of care, written reports of outcomes, presentation to key business audiences.
9. Financial management: Contributes to the oversight of the financial components of unit operations including budget creation, monitoring, analyzing, report variances. Leads efforts to align staffing and facilitates throughput with unit/organizational care needs with attention to productivity and budget targets.
ii. Leading People
1. Human resource leadership skills: Under the direction of the Nursing Director, works with the Department RN Manager in contributing to the monitoring or staff, preparing staff performance reviews including evaluations, goal setting, and development plans. Contributes to achieving staff engagement and satisfaction targets. Actively involved in mentoring to increase staff competency and level of care. Participation in succession planning; models professional standards and behaviors at the point of care
2. Relationship management: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care by applying communication skills that optimize active listening, inquiry; use effective dialogue, conflict management techniques, negotiation, and mediation skills.
3. Diversity: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care to maintain an environment that upholds the cultural/population specific standards for those served; maintains an environment that upholds a diverse workforce.
4. Shared decision making: Supports the process of shared governance and shared decision-making.
iii. Professionalism
1. Professional and personal accountability: Role models the value of continuous learning including academic advancement, continuing education, and maintains currency on current care practices. Actively involved in performing annual self-assessment and on-going development action plan.
2. Career Planning: Assesses career planning/goals and develops/implements continuous learning and activities to support goal path.
3. Personal Journey: Actively reflects on continuous learning activities, utilizes action-learning techniques to identify and act on areas of strength and opportunities.
4. Reflective Practice: Incorporates and role models integrity, ability to maneuver ambiguity, seeks and acts on the potential within self and others, supports and fosters C.A.R.E.S. behaviors, supports a just culture.
iv. C.A.R.E.S. Behaviors: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care and supports, fosters, and holds self and staff answerable to C.A. R. E.S. behaviors (Continuous learning, accountability, respect/respond, environmental safety, and superior outcomes).
v. Professional Practice Model: Synergy
1. Synergy Model: Provides in the moment leadership at the point of care to manages and drive staff performance and accountabilities to incorporate (1) Clinical judgment and action, (2) Patient advocacy, (3) Caring practices, (4) Collaboration within the interprofessional team, (5) Systems thinking, (6) Response to diversity, (7) Facilitation of learning, and (8) Clinical Inquiry.
Professional Requirements:
1. Maintains current professional licensure
2. Educational Requirements
a. Nurse Assistant Managers hired or rehired on/after 9/1/ 2012 without BSN are hired under the contingency that they enroll and begin their BSN courses within 12 months of hire or rehire and they must complete their BSN program within 48 months of hire or rehire.
3. Exceptions to Educational Requirements
a. The PHS Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer and/or CDS Assistant Chief Nursing Officer/Regional Director of Patient Care Services may consider exceptions to these requirements.
b. In 2013 PHS will review the start of reviewing if the registered nurse is 55 years or older, if the nurse will be grandfathered into new job profile and this requirement waived.
4. Professional emergency response training requirements as specified by service area
a. CDS Inpatient
i. Current BLS required
ii. Additional Requirements based upon area of service
1. Progressive Care: Current ACLS required
2. Adult Intensive Care: Current ACLS required
3. Adult Cardiac Critical Care: Current ACLS required
4. Emergency Department: Current ACLS/PALS required
5. Pediatrics: Current PALS required
6. PICU: Current PALS required
7. Newborn Nursery: Current NRP required
8. NICU: Current NRP required
9. Family Birthing Center: Current NRP/Fetal monitoring required; permanent charge ACLS required
10. Mother-Baby Care-Current NRP required
11. Operating Room: Current ACLS, PALS required
12. PACU: Current ACLS, PALS required
b. CDS Outpatient
i. Primary care clinics: Current BLS required
ii. Specialty care clinics: Current BLS required, Chemotherapy certification required in Oncology
iii. Urgent Care: Current BLS required
iv. Pediatric Urgent Care: Current BLS/PALS required
c. Regional Critical Access Hospitals
i. Medical- Surgical: Current BLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
ii. Critical Care: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iii. Emergency Department: BLS/ACLS/PALS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iv. Family Birthing Center: Current BLS/NRP/fetal monitoring required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
v. Operating Room: Current ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
d. Regional Non-Critical Access Hospital
i. Medical- Surgical: Current BLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
ii. Critical Care: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iii. Emergency Department: Current PALS (PRMC), ACLS/TNCC (Espanola)/ENPC (Espanola) required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
iv. Family Birthing Center: Current BLS/ NRP/STABLE required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
v. Operating Room: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
vi. Day Surgery: Current BLS/ACLS required. Other emergency response training may be required by Director of Patient Care.
e. Home Care/Hospice
i. Home care: Current BLS required
ii. Hospice: Current BLS required
iii. Inpatient Hospice: Current BLS required
Other information:
Minimum Job Requirements:
Nursing Licensure: Current State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License required
Education: ADN required, BSN preferred. BSN required within 5 years or 60 months of hire starting 9/1/2012
Certifications: Specialty Certification in area of practice and/or management preferred.
Experience: One year experience in clinical area.
Skills: Requires detailed knowledge of nursing, standards based practice, & shared governance, in terms of what and how work is to be done as well as why it is done, this level includes interpretation of data. Must have an understanding of human resource issues, operational budget, and financial resources. Ability to determine appropriate courses of action in more complex situations that may not be addressed by existing policies, procedures or protocols. Decisions include such matters as changes in staffing levels, order in which work is done, and application of established procedures.
Education:
Essential:
* Associate Degree
Education specialization:
Essential:
* Nursing
Credentials:
Essential:
* Registered Nurse-NM
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