Experience

• Minimum 3 years of experience in a healthcare setting

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in nursing, education, leadership, or other healthcare related field
• Minimum 1 year of leadership and management experience in a healthcare setting
• Pediatric experience

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Certification Summary

• Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the single State of Georgia or Multi-State through the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association within 30 days of employment or upon start of clinical shift if working in the Emergency Department (ED)
• Professional Nursing certification deemed by department required upon one year of hire

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• An understanding of process improvement and project management
• Must have excellent written and verbal skills
• Demonstrates the ability to organize workloads and resources
• Has strong interpersonal skills to interact positively and productively with a variety of personnel within the hospital, including administrative and executive staff

Job Responsibilities

Practice (Caring for the Patient)

• Manages environment for delivery of care.
• Acts as clinical resource for patient population in area.
• Maintains ability to assist with clinical care.

Development (Fostering Clinical Knowledge)

• Participates in educational process related to delivery of healthcare.
• Maintains own professional development.
• Fosters professional development of others via constructive performance feedback, input, and coaching.

Engagement (Engaging and Leading Professionally)

• Provides leadership for project management and change.
• Participates actively in and supports shared leadership councils.
• Fosters collegial relationships between team members, other departments, and medical staff members.
• Demonstrates fiscal accountability in supporting budget preparation, monthly analysis, and compliance to budget guidelines.
• May serve as unit leader in absence of manager.

Outcomes (Driving Excellent Results)

• Participates in achievement of organizational and departmental goals.
• Participates in departmental national recognition data collection processes and analysis.
• Facilitates and coordinates work toward care standardization and performance improvement in accordance with evidence-based practice.
• Performs other responsibilities as required.

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