RN Resource Nurse Ambulatory - Manchester Urology Nashua - Full Time

Resource Nurse

Join our growing team at Manchester Urology Associates (MUA) in Nashua as a Resource Nurse, a key clinical leadership role dedicated to advancing exceptional patient care, supporting team development, and ensuring efficient daily operations. Reporting directly to the Nurse Manager of Manchester Urology, the Resource Nurse serves as the frontline clinical resource for nursing and support staff, providing real-time clinical guidance, mentorship, and hands-on expertise. This highly visible role offers the opportunity to partner closely with providers and interdisciplinary team members to enhance patient outcomes, optimize workflows, foster professional growth, and contribute to the continued success of one of New Hampshire's leading urology practices.

Manchester Urology Associates is a comprehensive specialty practice providing advanced, patient-centered care across the full spectrum of urologic health. Our team cares for patients with conditions including kidney stones, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, recurrent urinary tract infections, erectile dysfunction, male infertility, pelvic floor disorders, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, and other complex urologic conditions. We serve patients throughout southern New Hampshire, delivering coordinated care across the outpatient, procedural, and surgical continuum.

The Resource Nurse plays a vital role in supporting care delivery for patients undergoing office-based diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, including cystoscopy, vasectomy, prostate biopsy, urodynamic testing, intravesical therapies, and other urologic interventions. The role also supports patients preparing for and recovering from advanced surgical procedures, including robotic and minimally invasive treatments for urologic cancers, pelvic floor disorders, and stone disease. As a trusted clinical leader and frontline resource, the Resource Nurse helps ensure outstanding patient experiences, clinical excellence, strong team engagement, and seamless coordination of care across the practice.

Position Summary: M-F 8 am - 5 pm

In addition to daily RN responsibilities and clinical support, the Resource Nurse directly oversees and serves as an immediate, first line clinical resource to staff on a designated unit and shift. The Resource Nurse demonstrates well developed clinical competencies appropriate to specialty area when providing direct patient care or guiding other staff. Functions as an integral member of the unit's management team and works to ensure smooth real time operations of unit on assigned shift and adheres to values under the EHS Professional Practice Model which guide all dimensions of practice.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Models skilled communication, true collaboration, effective decision-making, meaningful recognition, and authentic leadership, as described in Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments (AACN, 2005).
• Participates in professional enhancement activities. Examples include membership in hospital-wide committees, health system initiatives, development of education materials, professional association activities.
• Collaborates with and serves as a resource to medical staff for relevant clinical and other issues.
• Consults with and/or communicates questions and concerns to the Practice Manager as appropriate in a timely manner.
• Assists staff with the provision of care to assigned patients; assumes a partial patient assignment.

Accountability

• Provides oversight and ensures smooth shift-based operations including but not limited to completion of unit specific tasks, patient flow, interdisciplinary collaboration, patient satisfaction, issue resolution and occurrence reporting.
• Collaborates with the Practice Manager to effectively control costs through innovative and economical utilization of personnel, materials and equipment and assists in the mentor-ship of staff as stewards of resources.

Respect & Role Modeling

• Applies well developed critical thinking skills in guiding and assisting staff to identify and address clinical concerns in order to promote optimal patient outcomes.
• Serves as a role model; coaches and mentors other staff, promotes teamwork, and assesses performance, behavior and attendance of staff on assigned shift and communicates information to Practice Manager to facilitate effective and timely completion of performance reviews.
• Serves as the designated shift resource for new clinical staff during their first year of employment, beyond their precepted orientation period.

Ethics & Integrity

• In the absence of the Practice Manager, collaborates with the covering Practice Manager and/or Practice Director to address/stabilize management and operational issues requiring immediate attention, i.e., staffing and scheduling, disciplinary actions.
• Supports the department's Shared Governance structure and is accountable for quality improvement outcomes.

Education/Experience/Licensure

• Education: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. BSN required or must be actively enrolled in a program. Termination of a program without degree completion, will remove eligibility for the role.
• Experience: Minimum of two (2) years of current experience in an acute care setting required. Must be at a clinical level that reflects proficiency and in-depth knowledge of nursing practice.
• Licensure: License to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of New Hampshire required.
• Technical Certification: Life support authorization (BLS, ACLS, etc.) appropriate to patient population required.
• Professional Certification: Specialty certification required within six (6) months of eligibility.

What Elliot Health System Has to Offer

• Health, dental, prescription, and vision coverage for full-time & part-time employees
• Short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage
• Competitive pay
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan

And more!

Work Schedule: First shift M-F 8-5