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Job Description
Transform Healthcare as a Nurse Manager
In this dynamic role, you will oversee the Behavioral Health department at Prisma Health, ensuring the delivery of exceptional patient care. As a nurse manager, you will supervise staff and unit operations, providing direct patient care while maintaining high visibility to patients, families, and staff.
About the Role:
- Leadership and Supervision: Direct and indirect supervision of team members, including budget authority, hire/termination decisions, performance appraisals, and disciplinary actions.
- Patient Care: Oversees patient care activities, ensuring safe and quality care delivery on the unit. This includes allocating staff, scheduling, patient assignments, rounds, investigating/resolving patient care issues, and coordinating admissions, discharges, and transfers.
- Clinical Expertise: Maintains clinical competencies outlined in the charge nurse/clinical registered nurse job description, providing direct patient care that meets or exceeds expectations.
- Staff Development: Assists with continuing staff development, focusing on clinical problem-solving and decision-making skills. Collaborates with clinical nurse educators to support new staff orientation and training, maintaining records/documentation pertaining to staff competencies, certification, and licensure.
- Quality Management: Performs administrative and quality management activities to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, safety standards, environmental regulations, and infection control standards. Maintains records/documentation related to regulatory/environmental standards, quality audits, and other unit-related record-keeping requirements.
- Human Resources: Collaborates with the Nurse Manager on human resources activities, including interviewing, hiring, evaluating, coaching, counseling, staff rounding, and performance management of unit staff. May assist with payroll processing.
- Budget Management: Assists the Nurse Manager in maintaining unit budget by allocating and utilizing resources effectively, sharing accountability for achieving unit, department, and organizational goals.
Requirements:
- Education: Bachelor's Degree in Nursing required; nursing diploma or Associate's Degree in Nursing may be considered if applicant signs a Memorandum of Understanding agreeing to enroll in an accredited BSN or MSN program within one year and obtain a BSN or MSN degree within four years.
- Experience: 2 years of RN experience in an appropriate area of nursing preferred; previous management or supervisory experience beneficial.
- Certifications: Current R.N. Licensure as recognized by South Carolina (Lawson Code NLRN); Certified in nursing specialty preferred.
Estimated Salary Range:$83,000 - $105,000 per year, depending on qualifications and experience.