Clinical Nurse Manager, Critical Care & Progressive Care Units

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

40 hpw

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities:

Clinical Inquiry 

The ongoing process of questioning and evaluating practice to provide informed, evidence based care.

• Formulates and raises vital clinical questions and issues clearly and precisely.
• Brings practice issues to the attention of others when assistance is needed to facilitate resolution.
• Utilizes reliable sources for locating current standards of practice, research, evidence reports and clinical guidelines.
• Establishes and maintains a system for assessment of quality nursing care that complies with evolving regulatory agency requirements.
• Uses QI tools and methodologies to assess performance and identify gaps between current unit & best practice related to key clinical outcome measures.
• Provides leadership in generating clinical inquiry and critical thinking among staff by developing mechanisms that effectively translate available data, e.g., pathway variances, QI audits, and research findings, into information used by staff for clinical decision making.
• Systematically evaluates the quality, cost, and effectiveness of nursing practice through identification of nursing phenomena and/or systems issues appropriate for study.

Clinical Scholarship

Those activities which systematically advance the teaching, research, and practice of nursing through rigorous inquiry.

• Participates in the development and sustainability of standards for professional practice and nursing education programs designed to facilitate high quality patient care.
• Actively builds effective interdisciplinary relationships to assure dialogue around patient care and issues in an effort to enhance evidence based, outcome driven patient care.
• Contributes to the design of a continuing education curriculum that is evidence based and reflects contemporary and innovative nursing practice.
• Create learning opportunities to support and enhance staff understanding of the quality improvement process, evidence based practice and its link to enhanced patient care outcomes.  
• Fosters improvement in patient care by helping professional staff develop systematic ways of studying and resolving clinical/systems challenges.
• Serves as a resource for development, interpretation, and integration of current policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines into practice within area of nursing expertise.
• Maintains own clinical expertise and practices as an autonomous clinical decision maker within their scope of licensure, certification, and training.

Clinical Operations

• Represents nursing and patient care issues for assigned areas during strategic planning sessions.
• Has 24/7 accountability for the management of the day to day operations of the unit, patient flow, staffing, staff recruitment, retention, hiring, termination.
• Prepares and posts staff schedules using the Kronos time and attendance system.
• Utilizes permanent and flex staff as appropriate; adjusts staffing according to patient flow, patient acuity, and staff competence.
• Partners with key members of the interdisciplinary team, i.e., hospitalists, pharmacy, nutrition, physical therapy, & case management to achieve common clinical and patient care goals.
• Partners with risk management and occupational health to monitor, identify, mitigate, and take action to correct areas of patient care/staff risk and liability.
• Holds staff accountable for adhering to established standards of practice and hospital policies and procedures.
• Counsels non-compliant staff and develops corrective action plans as needed to address clinical practice issues in accordance with established disciplinary processes.
• Collaborates with educators to complete staff performance reviews and set annual goals that support clinical programs.
• Develops, implements, and manages annual unit operation and capital equipment budgets; makes recommendations for unit space and resource needs.

Teaching/ Learning

• Partners with clinical educator to support, develop and implement unit orientation, competency, continuing education, and in-service programs that support safe practice based on assessed learning needs.