Clinical Nurse Manager - PMH Centralized Nursing - Evening/Nights

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Job Description Summary:

This position ensures delivery of evidence-based practice by professional nursing personnel and other staff in designated areas of responsibility. The clinical nurse manager plans, organizes, directs and evaluates the unit's delivery of evidence-based patient care in a cost-effective manner, providing leadership and clinical management to members of the health care team. The manager participates in integration of the Nursing Philosophy along with the mission, vision, values, goals and objectives of OhioHealth in unit operations.

Responsibilities And Duties:

50% Patient Care:

• Assists the Manager in accountability for ongoing delivery of patient care in area(s) of responsibility; assures application of the nursing process by Registered Nurses in the clinical setting (assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation); assures documentation of patient care in the medical record. Addresses concerns and resolves problems. Uses data from various sources to initiate continuous quality improvement within the department/unit. Coordinates nursing care in collaboration with other healthcare disciplines and assists in integrating services across the continuum of health care. Ensures nursing practice in a safe environment. Participates in process improvement activities and root cause analysis investigations. Assists the Manager with fiscal responsibility at the unit level.
• Assists Manager with planning, assessing, implementing and evaluating patient care as appropriate to department/unit.
• Assists Manager with planning, reviewing and coordinating staffing time schedules and allocating staff as appropriate for volume and patient care needs. Assists Manager in daily staffing plans.
• Assists Manager to coordinate nursing care with other health care disciplines across the continuum of health care.

25% Operations and Personnel Management:

• Maintains daily unit operations including the status of staffing, patient visits and/or admissions, discharges and transfers, serving as a resource to department/unit staff to guide patient care delivery.
• Participates in recruitment, selection, retention and evaluation of personnel. Participates in staff performance via written performance appraisals and disciplinary procedures. Ensures appropriate orientation, training, competence, continuing education, and professional growth and development of personnel. Maintains staff records.
• Assists manager in planning and contributing to fiscal management of unit by utilizing human and material resources and supplies in an efficient, cost effective manner. Assists Manager in development and implementation of services.