Title: Nurse Manager – LTAC
Position Summary:
The Nurse Manager is responsible for day-to-day coordination of nursing care and services on his/her designated shift including but not limited to staffing and scheduling, monitoring quality of care, collection of quality data, staff development, performance management and budget compliance.
Qualifications:
o Current RN license in Michigan
o One to three years clinical experience in an LTAC, ICU or stepdown unit with ventilator patients
o Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
o One year of leadership experience as a charge nurse or supervisor
Responsibilities:
- Assures that care is provided consistent with standards of care, manages the environment to maintain patient safety, and supervises the patient care provided by nursing personnel.
- Maintains staff accountability for clinical and customer service standards at all times. Addresses non-compliance with policy, procedure, and standards of practice and behavior with staff in a respectful and professional manner when non-compliance is observed.
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Coordinates care on designated shift including creating patient assignments, facilitating admissions, and assuring adequate staff for patient acuity.
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Develops staff schedule in accordance with projected patient census and acuity mix.
- Assure adequate staffing; determine staffing levels needed for census. Makes real-time adjustments to staffing to address absences or census acuity fluctuations.
- Participates in selection and onboarding of staff to support target staffing levels.
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Orients new nursing staff to the facility, completes required documentation for the employee file.
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Provides ongoing educational offerings for facility staff based on high risk/high volume/problem-prone processes, quality initiatives, new services.
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Shared responsibility for employee engagement recruitment and retention.
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Identifies and addresses issues and conflicts that impact patient care processes, affect customer satisfaction, or have ethical/legal ramifications. Brings issues to the attention of the CNO for definitive resolution.
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Mentors care team members in the areas of conflict resolution, problem- solving, and customer relations.
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Attends wound care rounds, assures that wound assessments are documented consistently, and that the plan of care for wound management is implemented.
- Supports the QAPI Process, including completing data collection, coaching staff, supporting action plans, report preparation and data submission.
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Promotes hospital standards of care, policies and procedures.
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Ensures all regulatory requirements are met.
- Ensure the facility is well stocked with supplies, including medications and equipment.
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Provides direct nursing care to patients with critical and complex medical and surgical conditions (24-36 hours weekly). Time allocated for administrative duties on a regular and scheduled basis.
- Other duties as assigned.
