Assistant Nurse Manager - Inpatient Unit at Hughes Spalding

Nurse Manager

Works under the direction of the manager to facilitate daily operations, including patient flow, staffing assignments, safe patient care, and to promote a healthy work environment at Children's.

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years' healthcare experience required

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1 year of Clinical Nurse 3-5 level or management/administrative experience in a healthcare setting

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

Certification Summary:

• Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the single State of Georgia or Multi-State through the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association within 30 days of employment or upon start of clinical shift if working in the Emergency Department (ED)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) or Pediatric Emergency Assessment Recognition and Stabilization (PEARS) certification from the American Heart Association within 1 year of employment as required by department specifications
• Professional Nursing certification deemed by department required upon one year of hire

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills

Job Responsibilities:

Practice (Caring for the Patient):

• Supports environment for delivery of care.
• Acts as clinical resource for patient population in area.
• Maintains competence to provide and/or assist with clinical care.

Development (Fostering Clinical Knowledge):

• Participates in educational process related to delivery of healthcare.
• Maintains own professional development.
• Fosters professional development of others via constructive performance feedback, input, and coaching.
• Understands and supports Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's nursing career advancement program, My Nursing Career Path.

Engagement (Engaging and Leading Professionally):

• Participates actively in and supports shared leadership councils.
• Fosters collegial relationships between team members, other departments, and medical staff members.
• Demonstrates fiscal responsibility in supporting budget, productivity, and resource utilization.
• May serve as unit leader on shift in absence of manager.
• Drives and effectively facilitates admission, transfer, and discharge process, ensuring efficient and safe patient flow through collaboration with physicians, inter-professional team, hospital leadership, and staff.
• Removes or escalates barriers to appropriate leader.

Outcomes (Driving Excellent Results):

• Participates in achievement of organization and departmental goals.
• Supports plans for system and unit change.
• Supports regulatory agency readiness.
• Monitors activities within work environment to maintain a culture of safety.
• Demonstrates commitment and flexibility through times of change.

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic covered by applicable law.

Primary Location Address: 35 Jesse Hill Jr Dr SE

Job Family: Nursing-Management