Manages 24-hour departments providing patient care services. Ensures staff provide high quality, accessible, cost effective care, and patient focused services to members across the continuum, which comply with local, state, and federal requirements. Develops and maintains clinical standards of care and practice; responsible for all resource budgeting, selection and development.
Essential Functions:
- Manages the operations of 24-hour departments that may be at multiple locations.
- Ensures Assistants and staff provide the highest quality of care and are in compliance with the Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements.
- Establishes, implements, and maintains patient care and service standards to meet members and internal clients' expectations.
- Designs and evaluates processes to improve systems and patient care results across the continuum of care.
- Develops and monitors budgets for the appropriate use of human and material resources.
- Monitors financial performance and identifies and implements strategies to reduce costs and improve quality of care/service.
- Determines the appropriate staff mix for department and develops processes to screen, interview, hire, train, and maintain the competency of all department staff.
- Ensures on going staff development.
- Develops, implements, and monitors departmental policy and procedures which support the organizations goals and business objectives and ensures they are met.
- Oversees and develops standards of care and standards of practice, directs fiscal management, and quality improvement activities.
- Manages and resolves human resource, employee and department safety, and risk management issues.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Extensive nursing experience in both patient care and management/leadership roles required (usually five (5) years).
- Previous supervisory experience required (usually four (4) years).
- BSN or BA in a health care related field strongly preferred.
- Master's degree preferred.
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing.
- Current California RN license required.
- BLS certificate required.
- Knowledge of Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, and other local, state, federal regulations.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Six months of full time or equivalent experience in an OR facility within the past three years.
- Experience with telemetry patients and evidence of satisfactory completion of basic coronary care or cardiac monitoring course with demonstrated ability to identify cardiac arrhythmia and appropriate nursing interventions.
- Emphasis is placed on the application of the nursing process within age appropriate development, psychosocial, biophysical, environmental, spiritual, educational and discharge planning needs of the Adult Medicine patient required cardiac monitoring.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a patient care team.
- Prolonged standing and walking required with ability to lift and move patients.
- Otherduties as identified in individual's unit structure standards.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.