Location:
Main Hospital - New Brunswick,
One Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
RWJBH is seeking a Nurse Manager commonly known as Head Nurse for 4 Tower - Post Intensive Care Unit I at our New Brunswick campus. This is a Full-time, Night position; 40 hours/week, 7p-730am, 3 shifts per week in staffing as Head Nurse with 8hr office day per pay period.
The Nurse Manager is a registered professional nurse who under the direction of the Nursing Director coordinates available resources to efficiently and effectively provide professional nursing care of a quality consistent with the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Standards of Care to the patients assigned to his/her unit,
The Nurse Manager demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to make decisions regarding the provision of age-appropriate care for the unit s patient population,
Ensure that 4 Tower is in compliance with all applicable policies, laws and regulations,
Education:
- Licensed to practice Professional Nursing in New Jersey
- Bachelor s degree or equivalent required
- Exception may be made if candidate meets other requirements and is actively pursuing a bachelor's degree; the completion of the degree is expected within 5 years of acceptance of the position.
- National certification in a clinical area preferred
- Experience: 1-3 years relative clinical practice
Job Functions:
- Development/Management of Personnel
- Facilitates the safe and effective functioning of the unit as demonstrated by: Interviewing and hiring unlicensed personnel
- Interviewing and hiring licensed personnel in collaboration with Nursing Director
- Facilitates the orientation process for new employees as demonstrated by: Making assignments that maintain preceptor-orientee relationship
- Working the preceptor-orientee to solve any problems
- Ensuring that orientees complete the unit-based orientation within an appropriate individualized time frame
- Contributes to the professional growth and development of staff by: Continuously assessing patient care to evaluate staff knowledge and patterns of performance
- Counseling staff on identified areas for improvement
- Evaluating the staff performance as demonstrated by the completion of the performance evaluation in a timely manner
- Counseling and implementing appropriate disciplinary action
- Planning/coordinating unit based education programs as identified by unit needs
- Considers staff participation in safety/quality initiatives when completing employee performance appraisals
- Management of Patient Care Delivery Maintains clinical expertise as demonstrated by: Providing care that is safe, effective and consistent with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Standards of Patient Care.
- Implementation of policies and procedures of the nursing department
- Promoting effective resource utilization related to clinical practice
- Using effective communication strategies with patients, families, physicians, staff members and professionals to achieve desirable or acceptable patient outcomes
Unit Managment:
- Plans staffing in accordance with established standards as demonstrated by: Completing and posting schedules according to policy and procedure
- Completing schedules in a manner that balances personal requests and unit needs
- Collaborating with staff coordinator to ensure safe staffing patterns
- Ensuring accurate and timely completion of patient classification system
- Monitoring and evaluating the standards of care for the unit
- Participating in quality and cost initiatives as demonstrated by: Participating with Head Nurse group in working on identified areas for quality improvement
- Assisting Nursing Directors with the management of the daily operational budget salary and non-salary,
