Manager Nursing - Labor & Delivery/ Postpartum/ NICU

Department:

35005 Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center - Labor and Delivery

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Must have Labor and Delivery Experience x 3 years

Illinois Masonic Medical Center is a Level 1 Trauma Center located in the heart of Lakeview. We are a 4 time Magnate hospital. With a $645 Million dollar expansion under way, Masonic will help foster an environment that represents the excellent care our physicians and team members provide.

 

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The Manager Nursing Women & Children will provide administrative and clinical leadership to plan, coordinate and manage personnel and resources in order to provide the highest quality patient care with trained, professional, and competent staff.  To collaborate with physicians and other health care disciplines to assure optimal patient care outcomes on a 24-hour basis within the clinical area.

Major Responsibilities:

Safety and Quality
 

• Create a non-punitive culture of patient safety adherent to national patient safety initiatives.

• Develop an annual plan to address safety and quality goals and achieve KRA goals for safety and quality outcomes.

• Provides leadership in implementation of quality initiatives, regulatory body, requirements pathways, algorithms and other models of care. Ensure compliance with IDPH, the DNV and other licensing / accrediting bodies and agencies.

• Serves as a leaders and role model, in partnership with clinical nurse specialist to ensure staff adherence to professional, regulatory and behavioral standards.

• Promotes evidence based practice into clinical practice and nursing research activities.

• Analyze and use benchmark data from internal and external sources to identify opportunities for improvement.

• Encourage a culture of safety by promoting safe practice with staff and analyzing patient safety events such as Midas Report, Root Cause Analysis (RCA's), Apparent Cause Analysis (ACA's) and Common Cause Analysis (CCA's).

Finance

• Achieve goals established by system and site regarding financial target.

• Participate in budget planning in collaboration with the department director and advocate for appropriate fiscal and human resources to accomplish the work and goals of the nursing department.

• Monitor unit productivity levels and workforce design to ensure proper resource utilization and role delineation. Provide education to staff and accountability for staffing effectiveness.

• Identify areas for improved operational efficiency and involve staff in the development of new processes as appropriate. Review unit acuity reporting.

• Conduct unit meetings to improve communication of financial and operational information and strategic planning. Include associates / MD in capital dollar requests.

• Ensure appropriate use of IS systems to capture charges and monitor trends.

• Analyze monthly financial, operational and budget variance report to assure that financial goals are achieved. Initiate cost containment activities.

Services - Patient Satisfaction

• Utilize an evidence-based practice to improve care processes, structures, and measurement of client-centered outcomes and building loyal relations with patients. Consistently rounds on all patients Provide follow-up and feedback of rounding outcomes. Support discharge call back process. Evaluate outcomes / comment trends of data. Review questions and revise as appropriate.

• Implement strategies to assure that all associates understand and support organizational standards of behavior, methods for communicating key messages and methods which serve to increase patient satisfaction.

• Implement strategies to assure that associates understand when and how to implement service recovery and track service re