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Job Description The nurse manager co-creates a culture of excellence, innovation, and transformation with professional nurses, other leaders, and Associates. The nurse manager fosters healthy work environments, advances professional autonomy, clinical competences, and safe, ethical, and high-quality nursing care; and assures that nurses are allowed to practice within their full scope. The main goal is to assure the alignment of nursing’s goals, activities, and practices with the values and mission of the organization, governing boards, and constituencies. In addition to accountability for the direction of nursing practice, nurse administrators are responsible for the oversight and direction of all aspects of the clinical or educational enterprise. Nurse manager has core accountabilities for the following: (a) safety, quality, and risk; (b) patient and population health advocacy; (c) clinical care delivery and optimal patient outcomes; (d) healthy work environment; (e) strategic, financial, and human resource management; (f) legal and regulatory compliance; (g) networking, partnering, and collaboration; and (h) accountability/advocacy for their Associates. Nursing manager executes daily operations, with 24 hour accountability, within defined clinical area(s): inpatient, hospital outpatient department, or ambulatory care setting. At Nemours Children’s Hospital these may include, but are not limited to, acute care, critical care, cardiac services, transport, and perioperative services. The nursing manager reports directly to a Director of Nursing, and/or AVP (Assistant vice president) of nursing and to the Chief Nursing Officer/VP Patient Care Services. Nursing manager, at this level of influence, has accountability and supervision of all registered nurses and other healthcare providers who deliver nursing care in the clinical area. The nurse manager is responsible for recruitment and retention, performance review, and professional development; is involved in the budget formation process and quality, safety, patient experience outcomes; and helps plan, organize, and lead the delivery of nursing care. There may be teaching and/or direct patient care responsibilities. Position Responsibilities The Standards of Nursing Administration Practice are authoritative statement of the duties for all nurse administrators. STANDARDS OF PRACTICE FOR NURSING ADMINISTRATION Assessment: Collect comprehensive pertinent data and information relative to the situation, issues, problem, or trend. Identification of Problems, Issues, and Trends: Analyze the assessment data to identify problems, issues, and trends. Outcomes Identification: Identify expected outcomes for a plan tailored to the system, organization, or population, problem, issues, or tend. Planning: Develop a plan that defines, articulates, and establishes strategies and alternative to attain expected, measurable outcomes. Implementation: Implement the identified plan. Coordination: Implement the plan and associated processes. Promotion of Health, Education, and a Safe Environment: Establish strategies to promote health, education, and a safe environment. Evaluation: Evaluate progress towards attainment of goals outcomes. STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE FOR NURSING ADMINISTRATION Ethics: Practice ethically. Culturally Congruent Practice: Practice in a safe manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles. Communication: Communicate effectively in all areas of practice. Collaboration: Collaborate with health care consumers, colleagues, community leaders, and other stakeholders to advance nursing proactive and health care transformation. Leadership: Lead within the professional practice setting, profession, health care industry, and society. Education: Attain knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice and promotes futuristic thinking. Evidence-Based Practice and Research: Integrate evidence and research findings in to practice. Quality of Practice: Contribute to quality nursing practices. Professional Practice Evaluation: Evaluate one’s own and others’ nursing practice. Resource Utilization: Utilize appropriate resources to plan, allocate, provide, and sustain evidence-based, high quality nursing services that are person, population, or community centered, culturally appropriate, safe, timely, effective, and fiscally responsible. Environmental Health: Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner. Position Requirements Current Florida RN or multistate license, required Current American Heart Association BLS Health Care Provider course completion required Master’s degree in nursing leadership, management, policy, or administration preferred (must hold BSN and/or Graduate degree in Nursing) [from an accredited school of nursing] Professional certification in nursing administration or other relevant management or applicable specialty, preferred. About Us Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships. Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive. Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued. Learn more at Nemours.org . #J-18808-Ljbffr