Nurse Manager of General Surgery – AH Carolinas Medical Center Operating Room FT Position Available In Mecklenburg, North Carolina

Nurse Manager of General Surgery – AH Carolinas Medical Center Operating Room FT
Charlotte, NC, United States

Job ID:

156064

Job Family:

Nursing

Status:

Full Time

Shift:

Day

Job Type:

Regular

Department Name:

11011005030170-Operating Room
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Overview
CMC serves as the region’s only Level 1 trauma center and is an approved transplant center for heart, kidney, pancreas and liver. We also serve as one of North Carolina’s 5 Academic Medical Center Teaching Hospitals, providing residency training for more than 200 physicians in 15 specialties and serve as a regional campus for Wake Forest University School of Medicine, based in Winston-Salem, NC.
Carolinas Medical Center has been named the number 1 Best Hospital in the Charlotte region by U.S. News & World for 7 years in a row. Also located at CMC is Levine Cancer Institute’s academic and research headquarters, Carolinas Rehabilitation, ranked #1 in the Southeast and top 10 in the nation, and Levine Children’s Hospital, consistently ranked as a Best Children’s Hospital in multiple specialties by U.S. News & World for 16 years in a row.
Job Summary
Assesses, plans, coordinates, and evaluates the clinical and operational functions of a nursing unit to ensure quality, cost effective health care is provided by an educated andpetent team. Promotes a safe environment and performs all related job responsibilities in a safe manner. Maintains clinical and professionalpetency as appropriate to the age, developmental stages, and special needs of the patients served.
Essential Functions
Continually demonstrates and supports a Professional Practice model that allows nurses to work in collaboration with interdisciplinary partners to achieve high quality patient oues.
Ensures that unit operations and employees are inpliance with the Nursing Practice Act, regulatory agency standards, and policies and procedures.
Functions as a team member to aplish goals and objectives of the unit and theanization, upholding quality management, patient care, and departmental standards.
Assumes responsibility in the recruitment and retention of qualified staff and to ensure appropriate orientation, education, credentialing and continuing professional development of personnel through mutual goal setting and performance evaluation.
Delegates effectively by promoting d governance, developing and nurturing research to positively affect clinical oues.
Performs nursing care, assists with treatments, therapies, procedures, and administers medications as necessary.
Provides and assesses effectiveness of patient and family education.
Participates with performance improvement activities to improve quality of nursing care, promote patient oues and provide a cost effective environment for patient care.
Assists in development of policies, procedures and standards reflective of evidence based practice.
Promotes d accountability for professional practice.
Allocates resources to meet the unit needs. Responsible for budgetary oversight, and along with staff involvement, accountable to theanization for maintaining a cost effective unit.
Physical Requirements
Work requires walking, standing, sitting, lifting, reaching, stooping, bending, pushing, and pulling. Must be able to lift and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies. Must speak and understand English fluently. Intact sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch. Finger dexterity. Critical thinking and ability to concentrate. Must be able to respond quickly to changes in patient and / or unit/department conditions.
Education, Experience and Certifications
Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing required. Current RN licensure in appropriate state. Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) preferred. Must have orplete MSN if undergraduate degree is not BSN. Enrollment in MSN program within 1 year of hire/transfer date and graduation of MSN program required within 5 years of hire. If undergraduate degree is BSN, a Master’s Degree from a health-related program or MBA is acceptable. Previous management experience preferred. BLS required per policy guidelines. Appropriate professional certification (either clinical or leadership) is required within 1 year of eligibility for professional certification exam. Additional education, training, certifications, or experience may be required within the department by the nurse leader.