Nurse Manager - Emergency Department - Orangeburg, SC

Nurse Manager

The Nurse Manager supervises, directs nursing care, and all related activities, in a designated area according to policies, procedures, mission and objectives of MUSC Health. The MUSC Orangeburg Emergency Department is a Level III Trauma Center with 43 treatment areas. We are also a level II SAFE designation. We proudly serve the surrounding communities of Orangeburg, Calhoun, Bamberg, and Barnwell counties for all their acute healthcare needs.

The Nurse Manager (NM) reports to the ED Director. The manager is responsible for overall assessment, strategic planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care in assigned areas. The NM supports the achievement of optimal department; Integrated Clinical Centers of Excellence (ICCE) and Medical Center goals and promotes shared governance structure and process. This will be achieved through the creation and maintenance of a practice environment that leads to the achievement of desired clinical, staffing, quality, financial outcomes and operational efficiency, as well as individualized, age specific needs of patients. The NM fosters an environment of collaboration and respects all members of MUSC Health System and will provide departmental call coverage as required.

Work Environment: Regularly exposed to the risk of blood-borne diseases. Contact with patients under a wide variety of circumstances. Exposed to unpleasant elements (accidents, injuries, and illnesses). Subject to varying and unpredictable situations. Must be able to handle emergency or crisis situations. May perform emergency care. Occasionally subjected to irregular hours.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Oversees daily operations providing supervision of the Clinical Unit Leaders, licensed nurses, and unlicensed unit staff. May indirectly supervise others as needed.

Financial Responsibilities:

None

Essential Functions:

• Communicates with Director on a regular basis regarding day-to-day operational issues.
• Collaborates with care team to develop individualized plan of care participating in Interdisciplinary Care Planning rounds.
• Collaborates with Director in completing performance evaluations.
• Rounds daily on every inpatient utilizing Studer principles.
• Coaches staff in providing an optimal patient experience utilizing hourly rounding, AIDET, ACT, use of white boards, clinical care, etc.
• Ensures appropriate staffing. Assists in the daily adjustments to staffing required to have appropriate nurse/patient ratios. Ensures compliance with matrix.
• Assists in responding to investigations, follow-up and re-training.
• Provides first line customer service response and service recovery.
• May assist with assigning and/or completing duties listed on charge nurse report sheet, including crash cart checks, narcotic counts and discrepancy resolution, etc.
• Assists Department leaders in orientation of new employees. Works closely with Nursing Residency / Student Coordinator to ensure students and new graduates have positive orientation.
• Assumes on-call responsibilities as assigned by director.
• Reviews HCAHPS data and collaborates with director and patient advocate on performance improvement.
• Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.
• Adopts and implements innovative evidence-based nursing practices to improve quality and safety of patient care.
• May recruit, select and guide nursing staff.
• Supports nursing staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.
• Establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patient, and families.
• All other duties as assigned

Physical Requirements:

Physical requirements are primarily related to the essential functions of the job. To perform the essential functions of this position, you must be able to:

Sit, walk, stand, use your hands, reach, stoop, talk, hear, and smell. Lift or exert energy up to 50 pounds 25% of the time, up to 100 pounds 50% of the time, and more than 100 pounds 25% of the time.

Maintain close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less), color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors) and distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen move up/down or left/right) and depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances).

Mental Requirements:

Possesses the ability to read and interpret business or safety manuals, clinical or technical procedures or regulations. Able to write reports, correspondence, and/or manuals; effectively present information and respond to questions from groups, patients, families, other employees, and medical staff.

Able to perform math functions (add, subtract, multiply and divide), and perform more complex math functions to include calculating percentages, averages, volume, ratio, and interpreting graphs using numbers, money, and units of measure.

Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Deals with concrete and abstract concepts and interpret verbal, nonverbal, and written instructions.

Population Served: cultural and age specific competencies: This position interacts with all age groups and provides direct/indirect patient care. Each staff member must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skill necessary to meet the physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related needs of the persons in the assigned work area.

Staff members must be able to understand and respond to the expectations and needs of patients, family members and visitors from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Additional Job Description

• Bachelor of Nursing (BSN) degree from an accredited college/university.
• Master of Nursing (MSN) or Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in lieu of BSN.
• If BSN only, a master's degree in a related field or DNP completion expected within 4 years of hire date required.
• Three years related work experience as a registered nurse required.
• Extensive knowledge of the unit's patient population, health care trends, community and regional resources and service availability to these populations.
• An ability to establish working relationships with diverse groups and individual, medical staff and other health care disciplines.
• Certification in specialty area preferred or completion within one year of eligibility strongly encouraged.
• Licensure as a registered nurse by the South Carolina Board of Nursing or a compact state required.
• Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) required.

If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us!

The Medical University of South Carolina is an Equal Opportunity Employer. MUSC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, age, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, family or parental status, or any other status protected by state laws and/or federal regulations. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment based upon applicable qualifications, merit and business need.