Title: Nurse Manager - LTAC

Position Summary:

The Nurse Manager is responsible for day-to-day coordination of nursing care and services on his/her designated shift including but not limited to staffing and scheduling, monitoring quality of care, collection of quality data, staff development, performance management and budget compliance.

Qualifications:
• Required:

o Current RN license in Michigan

o One to three years clinical experience in an LTAC, ICU or stepdown unit with ventilator patients
• Preferred:

o Bachelor's degree in Nursing

o One year of leadership experience as a charge nurse or supervisor

Responsibilities:
• Assures that care is provided consistent with standards of care, manages the environment to maintain patient safety, and supervises the patient care provided by nursing personnel.
• Maintains staff accountability for clinical and customer service standards at all times. Addresses non-compliance with policy, procedure, and standards of practice and behavior with staff in a respectful and professional manner when non-compliance is observed.

• Coordinates care on designated shift including creating patient assignments, facilitating admissions, and assuring adequate staff for patient acuity.
• Develops staff schedule in accordance with projected patient census and acuity mix.

• Assure adequate staffing; determine staffing levels needed for census. Makes real-time adjustments to staffing to address absences or census acuity fluctuations.
• Participates in selection and onboarding of staff to support target staffing levels.

• Orients new nursing staff to the facility, completes required documentation for the employee file.
• Provides ongoing educational offerings for facility staff based on high risk/high volume/problem-prone processes, quality initiatives, new services.
• Shared responsibility for employee engagement recruitment and retention.
• Identifies and addresses issues and conflicts that impact patient care processes, affect customer satisfaction, or have ethical/legal ramifications. Brings issues to the attention of the CNO for definitive resolution.
• Mentors care team members in the areas of conflict resolution, problem- solving, and customer relations.
• Attends wound care rounds, assures that wound assessments are documented consistently, and that the plan of care for wound management is implemented.

• Supports the QAPI Process, including completing data collection, coaching staff, supporting action plans, report preparation and data submission.

• Promotes hospital standards of care, policies and procedures.
• Ensures all regulatory requirements are met.

• Ensure the facility is well stocked with supplies, including medications and equipment.

• Provides direct nursing care to patients with critical and complex medical and surgical conditions (24-36 hours weekly). Time allocated for administrative duties on a regular and scheduled basis.

• Other duties as assigned.