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About the Role

Wellstar is seeking a Nurse Manager for a 28-bed Medical Surgical unit focused on medical and telemetry patients. This role is at the Magnet WITH DISTINCTION designated Wellstar Paulding campus, known for exceptional patient care and staff development in a culture of genuine care and compassion. The unit has received 4 Star CMS scores for patient satisfaction, Leapfrog A Plus rating, Baldrige Award for hospital QI, and Beacon/Lantern/Prism designations. A sign-on bonus is eligible.

Responsibilities

Provides leadership and management of a specific unit(s) or service through the effective use of knowledge and skills to promote the creation of a center of excellence for staff recruitment and retention and clinical and business outcomes.
Serves as the standard bearer on his/her unit and holds all participants accountable for the delivery of care and services through effective communication, observation, and the management and measurement of specific interventions/practices and their associated outcomes.
Manages clinical, financial, human, and material resources and associated outcomes or goals.
Serves as chief retention and safety officer, ensuring safety and quality standards are upheld or met by effective use of data and technology to make decisions and proactively mitigates unnecessary risks.
Creates and ensures a desirable, safe work environment that enables the organization to meet or exceed its mission and goals.
Models the way to foster communication and collaboration with physicians, staff, patients, and other departments.
Engages staff in decision making via shared governance processes and partners with others to promote relationship-based care delivery systems that support patient centered care and service excellence.
Possesses and uses good negotiation and mediation skills.
Manages talent and protects/carefully deploys human and material resources through effective use of knowledge.
Analyzes and manages financial resources; uses lean and other quality skills to reduce waste and improve performance of operations and clinical systems of care; integrates marketing and communication strategies to advance ones service line and organization as a whole.
Effectively communicates to diverse audiences on nursing, health care, and organizational issues, including the ability to set standards and hold leaders and staff accountable for performance standards.
Proactively establishes a healthy work place by reducing or resolving unnecessary conflict and promotes achievement of positive team dynamics.
Establishes partnerships by employing strong relationship building skills with staff, departments, and medical staff.
Creates opportunities for self and leaders/staff to grow professionally and implements a desirable workplace to recruit and retain talented leaders and staff.
Promotes staff competency in clinical care delivery.
Holds self and staff to the highest professional standards and ethics, ensuring corporate compliance standards are met.
Is an active member of ones professional community and serves as a role model for professional nursing practice and nursing leadership.
Possesses hiring skills and supports effective orientation and onboarding of new staff.
Advances the field through transformational executive leadership and scholarly activity.
Successfully employs change management strategies and instills in self and others the curiosity to explore new knowledge and ideas.
Manages a varied generational and diverse leadership team and workforce.
Designs and implements systems to manage and measure outcomes to achieve expected business and clinical goals and objectives for self, staff, and unit performance.
Develops operational budget and manages it to target level performance or better.
Represents the organization positively to the community, building credibility and willingness to serve on committees and task forces as needed.
Promotes Evidence based practice, nursing research, and performance improvement in nursing.
Participates in activities such as value analysis as part of the decision making process in evaluating patient care products.
Effectively identifies areas of risk and proactively works to ensure compliance and safety standards.
Assures service meets or exceeds licensure, regulatory, and accreditation standards.
Applies the effective use of data and evidence to support decision making for clinical and operational responsibilities.
Demonstrates awareness of legal and ethical issues related to patient and staff data, information, and confidentiality.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Requirements

Minimum 2 years of progressive experience in nursing management Required

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Relationship building skills
Knowledge of the health care environment
Leadership skills including successfully implementing and managing a change process
Systems thinking
Ability to inspire, coach others to be successful
Professionalism and teamwork/collaboration for self/department/medical staff
Business skills to manage human and material resources
Continuous learner
Understanding of health care financing, strategy, and operations for running a business unit(s)
Effectively employ data and technology to support work processes and make decisions
Supports shared governance or shared decision making
Manage the design and delivery of care that is based on evidence and focused on quality and safety
Knowledge of risk management and various accreditation/regulations/licensing requirements
Ability to advance industry standards through the achievement of goals by effective management and measurement of outcomes

Location

Wellstar Paulding campus

Work Type

Day Shift

Experience Level

Minimum 2 years of progressive experience in nursing management

Education Level

Bachelors Nursing
Masters Nursing-Preferred

Benefits

Sign on bonus eligible

About the Company

At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve.
We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives.
Magnet WITH DISTINCTION designated Wellstar Paulding campus dedicated to exceptional patient care and staff development in a culture of genuine care and compassion.
4 Star CMS scores for patient satisfaction/Leapfrog A Plus/Baldrige Award for hospital QI/Beacon /Lantern/Prism designations
Connect with the most integrated health system in Georgia, and start a future that gives you more.