RN Nurse Manager Ambulatory Surgery Center

RN NURSE MANAGER:  West Bloomfield Ambulatory Surgery Center 

UNIT DESCRIPTION: Ambulatory Surgery setting.

Be Extraordinary, Join Our Team!    A unique opportunity exists for a Registered Nurse with previous experience in a leadership role in an Ambulatory Surgery Center setting.  Working knowledge of JC and CMS site certification of freestanding outpatient facility preferred. 

 

GENERAL SUMMARY:

The RN Nurse Manager is an experienced leader responsible for managing assigned areas and services and supervising assigned patient care staff to promote the creation of a center of excellence for staff recruitment and retention clinical and business outcomes. The Nurse Manager is responsible to ensure safe and effective delivery of patient care and clinical outcomes, compliance with regulatory administrative and clinical standards, and policies and procedures. The Nurse Manager serves as a chief retention and safety officer. He/she ensures that safety and quality standards are upheld by effective use of data and technology to make decisions and proactively mitigates unnecessary risk for his/her area of responsibility. The Nurse Manager creates and ensures a desirable safe work environment that enables th organization to meet or exceed its mission and goals. He/she models the ay to foster communication and collaboration with physicians, staff, patients, and other departments. Role specific competencies, responsibilities, roles and functions are based on the Professional Practice Model. This position reports to the Director of Nursing or above.

Under general direction, maintains 24-hour responsibility and accountability for providing leadership and management of a designated patient care unit which promotes quality nursing care, cost-effective use of resources and professional growth for nursing staff. Promotes a Patient Family Centered Care Culture.

BENEFITS:

Beaumont offers a comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health and life-work balance goals.

• Generous paid time off, holidays and flexible scheduling
• Our employees receive special discounts on a wide range of products and services
• Exceptional health, dental, vision and prescription drug insurance plans
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Relocation assistance
• Savings & retirement plans, disability insurance, identify theft protection and even home and auto insurance

STANDARD QUALIFICATIONS:

 

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

 

• Education / Training:  Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. B.S.N., M.S.N Bachelor's Degree in Nursing is required.
• Master’s Degree preferred. Completion of a Nurse Executive Council approved leadership development educational program.
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• Work Experience:  Previous Surgery RN experience, and a minimum of 3 years clinical nursing experience required. 
• Minimum of 1 year formal nursing leadership experience required for external applicants.
• Minimum of 2 years demonstrated, informal leadership experience required for internal applicants, may include but not limited to : Charge Lead Nurse, Charge Nurse responsibilities, leadership on behalf of unit/site/system at Shared Governance Council, etc
• Working knowledge of JC and CMS site certifications for freestanding out patient facility preferred.
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• Certification, Licensure, Registration: RN with active license in State of Michigan

 

• Other Qualifications:  Current American Heart Association BLS for Healthcare Providers certification and other certifications as required by department.

 

 

• Critical Care: ACLS within 6 months of hire/transfer
• Emergency Care: ACLS within 6 months of hire/transfer, TNCC and ENPC within 12 and 15 months of hire/transfer respectively.
• NICU NRP within 6 months of hire/transfer
• Pediatrics: PALS within 12 months of hire/transfer
• Family Birth Center: NRP within 6 months of hire/transfer
• Family Birth Center: EFM within 1 year of hire/transfer
• Mother Baby Care: NRP within 6 months of hire/transfer
• Pre-Op and PACU requires ACLS and PALS within 6 months of hire
• Endoscopy: ACLS required
• Radiology: ACLS within 6 months of hire

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:      

Applies the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation and discharge needs of patient/family/significant other. Applies the Core Concepts of Patient- and Family-Centered Care (PFCC) in practice, and uses this knowledge to personalize care for each patient/family. Recognizes the impact of nursing care and patient/family partnerships on patient outcomes. Partners with and utilizes patient/family input and goals in planning plan of care. Provides quality care that meets or exceeds the expectations of value (core measures, quality matrix, patient experience, fiscally responsible). Provides assistance to individuals in a manner that takes into account their special needs, age-related and cultural-related needs. Recognizes the roles of the interdisciplinary team, patient and family care partners and utilizes them appropriately as resources in planning patient care. Delegates appropriate tasks. Demonstrates knowledge of and competently performs technical procedures and uses equipment properly. Documents in the patient record in a timely, accurate and concise manner.  Develops teaching strategies for patient/family; documents education and learning appropriately in health record. Demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting and is responsible for continuing personal education, mentoring peers and educating patients and families. Stays up to date with current health system initiatives and incorporates evidence based practice and research into practice. Maintains current knowledge in area of clinical practice. Completes a self-appraisal that includes professional goals annually and completes peer review. Participates in department based activities, staff meetings and committees. Actively participates in hand offs of care, including the patient, family and partners in care. Demonstrates knowledge, understanding and embraces cultural traditions and lore of community served.

This document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.

 

 

WORKING CONDITIONS:

Physical Effort:

 

• Strength

Position requires ability to frequently push/pull up to 30 lb. objects with assist of others, occasional requires ability to lift objects more than 50 lbs. with others, constantly lift objects up to 20 lbs. And frequently lift up to 40 lbs.

• Manual Dexterity

Position requires incumbent to constantly perform simple motor skills such as standing, walking and simple manipulative skills such as writing. Position requires incumbent to frequently perform moderately difficult manipulative skills such as positioning patients.

 

• Coordination

Position requires incumbent to constantly perform gross body coordination such as walking. Frequently perform tasks which require hand-eye coordination such as assisting patients to eat, collections of specimens for transport to lab and tasks which require arm-hand steadiness such as taking patients temps and pulses.

• Mobility

Positions requires incumbent to constantly walk and stand; occasionally sit for prolonged periods, frequently bend such as when caring for a patient in bed.

• Visual Discrimination

Positions requires incumbent to constantly see objects far away as in driving and see close objects such as reading thermometers.

• Hearing

Positions requires incumbent to constantly be able to hear normal sound with some background noise as in answering phone/intercom. Frequently be able to distinguish sound as in equipment alarms.

Work Environment:

 

• Employee may be frequently exposed to electro-magnetic radiations as in VDTs. Occasionally exposed to hazardous material other than blood, body tissues, or fluids, dust, toxins, cytotoxons, chemical hazardous materials, bodily injuries, loud and/or unpleasant noises, high humidity, electrical hazards, or poisonous substances. Infrequently exposed to blood, body tissue, or fluids. Seldom exposed to fluctuations in temperature, grease, oil, and radiation.
• Potential risk of an exposure to hazardous medications or waste materials of hazardous medications.

 

ABOUT BEAUMONT

Beaumont offers you a world of opportunity throughout Southeast Michigan.  With eight hospitals and 155 outpatient sites you’ll have a wide variety of practice settings to choose from.  Beaumont has more nationally ranked hospitals in Michigan than any other health system.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer