Nurse Manager-Float Pool
Liberty Hospital
Position Summary / Career Interest:
The Nurse Manager provides administrative and nursing leadership for staff involved in the provision of care and services during evening, night, weekend and holiday hours. The Nurse Manager provides administrative decision making and assists with coordination of patient flow, patient placement and other patient services through collaboration with administrative supervisory staff, physicians, charge nurses and ancillary support across all hospital departments, As the on-site administrative nursing leadership representative, the Nurse Manager provides direction guidance for hospital staff in interpretation and application of policies and procedures, problem solving, utilization of assignment of nursing resources, response to patient and family complaints and initiation of emergency preparedness plans for any presenting emergency situations.
Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions
- Achieve business and organization goals, visions and objectives.
- Administer corrective action to employees not meeting requirements of their jobs.
- Analyzing, reporting, giving recommendations and developing strategies on how to improve quality and satisfaction.
- Create a unit budget and manage to this by monitoring staffing, supplies, travel, equipment, volume, revenue, charges, education, and food.
- Identifying problems, providing solutions and courses of actions.
- Interact in a positive, professional manner with evidence of conflict resolution skills.
- Maintain a presence on the unit.
- Primary involvement in employee selection, career development, succession planning and periodic training.
- Role Model professional nursing practice through collaboration with staff, leadership, patients, families and physicians.
- Serve as a mentor for staff developing into leadership roles
- Supervise and manage the overall performance and technical competencies of staff in his/her department.
- Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
- Conducts new hire selection, orients/trains, evaluates competencies; manages performance; intervene/counsels, request
termination when necessary. - Assists in monitoring and maintaining the budget while identifying and recommending opportunities to reduce costs.
- Pervisors to ensure needed coverage and provide guidance for challenging situations; able to function in house supervisor role.
- These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.
Required Education and Experience
- High School Graduate
- Bachelor Degree Nursing
Preferred Education and Experience
- Master Degree Nursing
- 2 or more years Minimum of 2 years of management experience
Required Licensure and Certification
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) - American Heart Association (AHA) within 14 days
- Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Single State - State Board of Nursing
Preferred Licensure and Certification
- Professional Nursing Certifications
Time Type:
Full time
Job Requisition ID:
R-48691
We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status or genetic information.
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