RN Clinical Manager-T2-Cardiac Unit

Job Summary: The RN Clinical Manager is responsible for the delivery of quality patient care through the leadership of a multidisciplinary team. The Clinical Manager is responsible for directing and coordinating all nursing care for patients based on established clinical nursing practice standards. Essential Job Functions Accountabilities: Directs, supervises and evaluates work activities of nursing, technical, clerical, and other employees; prepares and administers departmental performance evaluations. Develops and implements organizational policies and procedures for the facility or department. Provides regular meetings and other forms of communication with reporting personnel and other affected staff members including daily huddles and/or internal customer rounding to assure awareness of operational and organization-wide issues. Ensures the delivery of nursing care to assigned group of patients to include education directed towards identified knowledge deficits, treatment planning, pain management and discharge planning utilizing the nursing process. Ensures the delivery of quality nursing care while minimizing the risk of infection, contamination, harm, or injury. Promotes the maintenance of safe and clean working environment ensuring compliance with procedure rules and regulations. Coordinates the team providing patient care and education to patients and the public about various health conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients and family members. Resolves patient problems and needs by using multi-disciplinary team strategies. Plans and manages the capital and operational budget, unit environment, and equipment maintenance issues. Serves as an expert leader by precepting and mentoring clinical staff and students. Facilitates and provides time for staff education, including service specific and hospital mandated in-service programs. Maintains accurate, detailed reports and records for operational and clinical needs related to the patient population served. Facilitates staff development and adherence to standards of care, individual goal setting and development of the departmental team. Facilitates the development and implementation of Quality Improvement activities, and utilizes Performance Improvement data to initiate changes which improve services. Ensures appropriate staffing levels, Supervises and evaluates staff. Monitors staff compliance with competency-based orientation and annual re-evaluation of skills. Job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice. Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned.