Nurse Manager University Hospital-7DS Adult Acute Hemodialysis Unit

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Nurse Manager (University Hospital-7DS, Adult Acute Hemodialysis Unit)

Duties: Provides professional nursing leadership, administrative direction, and personnel management for the Hemodialysis Unit, Interventional Nephrology Unit, and Access Care Clinic. Works closely with the Medical Directors to create and support an environment where cutting-edge and innovative care is provided to a continually growing number of dialysis/interventional patients. Participates in Divisional, Departmental, and Hospital teams to continually improve health care services and support the mission and goals. Recruits, interviews and selects all levels of nurses and assistive personnel. Manages staffing and scheduling of all staff. Assists Medical Directors, Nursing Director, and Administrative Managers when determining adequate complement of staff, scope of staff roles and workload. Provides supervision, counsel, discipline and performance evaluation of nursing and assistive staff, with feedback from the Nurse Supervisor and Medical Directors. Provides recommendations for merit awards and personnel classification changes. Oversees the professional development and advancement of clinical expertise of nurses and the development and training in clinical skills of all nursing and clinical assistive staff. Manages the orientation and competency evaluations of nursing staff. Promotes the academic mission by ensuring that infrastructure is in place to support education and training initiatives for medical students, house officers, and other trainees. Coordinate nursing orientation, BLITZ compliance and continuing education for all staff. Provides leadership for the development, implementation and evaluation of standards of nursing practice and interdisciplinary clinical guidelines. Participate in the development of patient care models and systems. Facilitates and supports a nursing practice environment in which empowerment, responsibility, autonomy, accountability, collaboration and peer review are exercised . Serves as a role model and mentor to nursing and assistive staff in the provision of patient care. Integrate unit goals and objectives with Nursing Service goals and objectives. Advise and assist with the establishment of priorities and institutional program development. Lead Charge Nurse selection and training. . Clinical Operations. . Manages, directly and collaboration with others, staffing, scheduling, benchmarking, work redesign, and cost management strategies in the planning and management of clinical operations . Provides input into nursing payroll budget, and monitors and problem solves with the Administrative Manager, Nursing Director, and Medical Directors. Assures compliance with Federal and State regulations regarding affirmative action, safety and patient care. Assists/advises the Medical Directors, Nursing Director, Administrative Manager, on regulatory standards for the Units. . Participates in multidisciplinary and unit problem solving regarding patient care. Directs the interpretation and application of UMHS system policies and procedures, including upholding the nursing union contract. Assists in the planning and implementation of new or expanded services and programs. Leads the development and implementation of unit policies, goals and objectives in partnership with the Unit’s leadership team . Oversee the verification and monitoring of the outpatient insurance process. Provides interface and liaison communications regarding programs external to the Unit, which have implications for staff. Provides leadership for operational problem solving. Is available by phone or pager for problems that might arise during all hours of operations . Represents the Units on assigned clinical area and Hospital committees (i.e., ESRD, PPM, Workload). Assure accurate Unit billing and participate in required audits . Monitor and audit CDM charges for Units in accordance with CMS guidelines. Collaborate with CRRT program coordinator in all aspects of CRRT operations. Quality Management: Participates in and conducts the analysis of data to assist in the development of strategies to improve patient care. Participates in planning, coordinating and evaluating unit quality improvement activities. Provides leadership to staffing understanding and applying quality improvement principles and adoption of evidence-based changes in practice into daily work. Supports research activities on the unit, if indicated. Assures the implementation of patient care quality and nursing practice standards . Participates in concurrent and retrospective evaluation of patient care consistent with the hospital quality assurance program. Initiates and cooperates in applied research, keeping with the institutional objectives. Promote staff involvement in clinical research, as applicable. Professional Development and Education. Facilitates the education of students and fellows. Establish guidelines with the nursing faculty, which support the institutional goal of providing the primary clinical environment for nursing students. Develops self professionally through continuation education, professional reading and networking. Plans, organizes Unit based educational and training activities. Collaborate with Educational Coordinator to implement competency based evaluation for staff, unit level orientation and staff development.

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