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Tenet Health

NURSE MANAGER 3W

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Post Date: Today Type: Full time
Start Date:2009-11-20 02:35:00 AM+ Salary:- n/a -
Location: GA - Griffin Job Reference: - n/a -
Facility:

Spalding Regional Medical Center
Job Details
Description
Tenet Healthcare Corporation, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates acute care hospitals and numerous related health care services. Tenet's name reflects its core business philosophy: the importance of shared values among partners in providing a full spectrum of health care.

Tenet's mission is to be recognized for the passion of our people and partners who provide quality, innovative care to the patients we serve in our communities. Our focus is on leadership, growth and philanthropy. It's a spirit you can experience first-hand and it's a philosophy that can enhance your own approach to health care, and your career goals. From the resources that go with being one of the largest investor-owned health care providers in the U.S., to our multiple locations coast to coast, one thing is clear - Tenet offers significant employment opportunities. So whatever you need to grow as a professional, we'll do our best to provide. All you need to bring is yourself!

The Nurse Manager is the first line manager designated as the leader for specific cost centers, its patient population, and assigned nursing staff. As such, he/she has 24 hour accountability for all patient care activities, unit operations and staff functions. Reports directly to the ACON or Director. Must be creative, resourceful, independent, and possess a high degree of initiative to function with minimal supervision and guidance.

The Nurse Manager is responsible for ensuring that the hospital's mission to provide clinically excellent patient care, coordination of care, discharge planning, service excellence, and cost-efficiency be achieved. Insures that legal, professional and institutional policies, regulations and standards are met.

The Nurse Manager is a registered nurse with advanced knowledge and skills in coordinating and providing care for patient population served within assigned areas. Functions with limited supervision utilizing independent and collaborative judgement in decision making. Demonstrates leadership and problem solving skills. Accountability is measured by performance standards, unit goal achievement, performance improvement and patient safety activities, direct observations and budget management.

The provision of nursing care will be provided in an environment that embraces maximum participation by the staff nurses, the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses and the ANA Practice Standards. Embraces shared governance nursing organizational principals by serving on and allowing staff to serve on nursing councils as participant or leader so that outcome, goals and objectives of nursing are achieved.
Qualifications
          Education:
         Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. Bachelor's Degree required, BSN preferred.

         Licensure/Certification:
         Current licensure in the State of Georgia
         All areas require BCLS certification
         Oncology Nurse Manager requires Chemotherapy certification
         Certification in respective area is preferred
         ACLS/PALS/NALS required as appropriate
         NALS/PALS certification required as appropriate

         Experience:
         Five years of experience in nursing, two in a leadership position; one of the five years nursing experience needs to be in specialty area (i.e., Med/Surg, Critical Care, ED, Maternal/Child, Oncology, OR, etc.) in         
         which Nurse Manager position will be.

         Knowledge, skills, abilities:
         Demonstrate excellent knowledge of current nursing and patient care practices and ability to apply
         Demonstrated excellent leadership skills to manage people through counseling and teaching, to delegate, and to hold accountable.
         Demonstrate ability to relate to and to communicate with all levels of personnel, management, physicians, families and others.
         Philosophy of health care and nursing is compatible with that of the institution.
         Demonstrated ability to assess, plan, and manage staffing to meet financial and quality outcomes on a short term (shift by shift, daily) and long term basis.
         Demonstrated ability to manage the care of designated patient populations so that desired outcomes (clinical, service, and financials) is achieved.

         Physical Abilities:
         Physical ability to move/transport patients and equipment, and to move about the hospital and campus. Manual dexterity to provide and document care.
         Visual ability to assess patients condition, staff performance, read documents and computer terminals.
         Auditory and communication abilities to hear and communicate with patients and other health care members.
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