Unit Nurse Manager – Adult
Location: Multiple Cities of Choice in NJ, NY or TX
Duration: 3 Months Contracts with extensions up to 2 years
Hours Per Week: 40.00
Hours Per Day: 10.00
Days Per Week: 4.00
Weekly Blended: $2600 to $3100
Certifications & Licenses: BLS - AHA & RN Compact License for location
Overview:
- Job Category: Acute - Nursing - Travel
- Duties: Responsible for monitoring nursing staff, nursing activities, and patient care, as well as ensuring nursing activities follow federal, state, and local standards. A successful ADON is responsible, attentive, knowledgeable, and provides high-quality care to patients.
- Skills: Excel Proficiency
- Education: Licensed and currently registered to practice as a Professional Nurse in New York State, plus (2) or (3) below.
- A Master’s degree in Nursing Administration, Education or an equivalent field and a minimum of six years of satisfactory nursing experience, of which four years shall have been in a supervisory, teaching or administrative capacity; or,
- A Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing and seven years of satisfactory nursing experience, five years of which shall have been in a supervisory or teaching capacity; or,
- A satisfactory equivalent combination of education and experience. However, all candidates must be licensed and currently registered to practice as a Professional Nurse in New York State.
- Certifications & Licenses: RN License
Unit/Position Summary
- Plans, implements, and documents nursing care based on patient's needs.
- Your job is to provide care to adult patients with general medical conditions and/or post-surgical abdominal, vascular, urology, bariatric and gynecology patients. Our team includes RNs, CNAs, Case Managers, Educator, leadership (Manager, Assistant Nurse Managers) as well as RT, PT, Pharmacy and Dietitians.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for achieving harm index, compliance to evidence-based protocols, patient safety, HCAPS, rounding, vacancy, turnover, productivity, overtime, expense, work place safety and staff engagement performance metrics.
- Makes staff assignments to align with staff competencies to ensure appropriate patient care and actively manages staff each shift. Works with Nursing Manager and Staffing Office to determine staffing needs.
- Provides guidance, mentoring, coaching and development of staff, and ensures execution of action plans to improve staff development and employee engagement. Works with staff to promote resolution of conflicts and counsels’ staff when clinical practice standards are not met.
- Assists in the hiring and onboarding process, as well as contributes to performance evaluations and staff management, as delegated by the Nursing Manager.
- Provides increased leadership visibility through actively engaging in real-time patient rounding, to support coaching and mentoring of the patient care team.
- Initiate and foster continuous improvement within department. Identify and resolve patient/customer satisfaction issues and complaints.
- Ensure compliance with regulations governing hospitals/area/service and practice/area/ service. Ensure that policy, procedures and standards are developed, implemented and maintained.
- Ensures communication of program priorities, policies, and procedures across team to ensure consistent patient experience and optimal outcomes.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.