Manager Nursing - Abdominal Transplant, Allegheny General

Job Title

Abdominal Transplant Coordinator

Company

Allegheny Health Network

Location

Allegheny General Hospital

Department

Abdominal Transplant

Status

Full Time

Shift

80 hours every two weeks

Union

NO

The Unit

AGH's team of Abdominal Transplant Coordinators serve as liaisons between patients, donors, and the multidisciplinary team to evaluate and coordinate for kidney, pancreas, and liver transplantation. In addition, the Abdominal Transplant Coordinators play an integral role in coordination of post-transplant care.

Allegheny General Hospital

Allegheny General Hospital (AGH), located on the North Side of Pittsburgh, is a 550+ bed hospital renowned for its advanced care across nearly every medical and surgical specialty. AGH is proud to hold Magnet recognition for nursing excellence and was the first accredited Level 1 Trauma Center in western Pennsylvania, providing 24/7 care for all types of traumatic injuries.

Allegheny Health Network

At AHN, employees trust working together and place patients at the center of all they do. This multi-hospital system, a part of Highmark Health, is transforming the future of healthcare by providing highly effective services to customers, patients and communities. AHN has commitment and dedication to being inclusive, valuing fresh perspectives, and offering the best growth and educational opportunities to employees.

General Overview

Manages, supervises, and coordinates the daily operations of a specific patient care department providing clinical and administrative leadership and expertise. Contributes to the strategic planning process and attainment of goals of both their departments and the organization.

Essential Responsibilities

Leadership

Responsible for implementation of mission, vision, philosophy, core values, evidence based practice, and standards of the organization, and nursing service within their defined areas of responsibility.

• Demonstrates and role models professional behavior with all staff interactions.
• Serves as change agent and role model for change to assist staff in accepting and embracing the necessary change.
• Conducts monthly unit conferences with minutes which include discussions of both unit and organizational activities and goals.
• Completes annual performance appraisals on associates.
• Attends greater than 50% of leadership meetings.
• Promotes unit based shared governance to include ongoing support through consultation and assistance in eliminating barriers.
• Promotes RN career ladder with staff.
• Promotes and encourages nursing specialty certification.

Quality and Patient Safety

Identifies, plans, and implements activities in specified clinical departments which ensures patient care is delivered in accordance with professional standards for nursing practice and is evidenced based, meets patient safety goals and standards and regulatory guidelines.

• Monitors departmental performance in appropriate EBPs, quality and patient safety goals, meeting assigned goals.
• Develops action plan for any goal not met which includes timeline.
• Participates in 85% of monthly Joint Commission mock tracers.
• Develops a yearly unit based quality plan with unit based clinical practice and PI council based on identified unit needs.
• Assures departmental participation and compliance with Six Sigma projects goals related to through put.

Customer Satisfaction

Assures that department work collaboratively with patients, families, peers, and other departments in the organization to meet established organizational goals for customer satisfaction.

• Reviews bi-weekly Press Ganey report providing feedback to staff at monthly unit conference.
• Investigates and provides feedback for identified patient or departmental concerns.
• Rounding for Purpose weekly to assess patient and family needs.
• Develops departmental plan to address any improvement needs.
• Meet or show consistent progress toward meeting established patient satisfaction goal.

Finance

Demonstrates fiscal stewardship through effective and efficient use of staff, facilities, equipment, and other resources while maintaining patient care standards.

• Maintains both FTE and Goods/Services within established budget, completes variance reports according to established guidelines.
• Utilizes established tools to monitor monthly budget performance, conducting drill down to explain variances as needed.
• Completes staffing report daily
• Addresses overtime use with individuals as needed with documentation of discussion.
• Reports budget performance at monthly unit conferences.

Professional Growth and Development

Fosters the development of staff through coaching, mentoring, and creating an environment which encourages learning and use of research.

• Assures appropriate orientation, education, credentialing, and professional development for personnel.
• Encourages and facilitates staff membership on research committee, clinical practice councils.
• Encourage and facilitate attendance at nursing grand rounds.
• Foster peer review.
• Set developmental goals with staff member at yearly evaluation.
• Identifies one area for self-improvement annually and develops a plan to improve.

Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• 3 years of leadership experience
• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• Current State of PA RN licensure OR Current multi-state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
• CPR certification

Preferred

• Master's Degree in Nursing
• National Certification

Additional Employment Requirements

• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• Current State of PA RN licensure OR Current multi-state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
• CPR certification