Staff - Registered Nurse (RN) - Manager, Renal PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $35-55 per hour
Company: Baylor Scott & White Health
Location: Temple
Posted on: May 23, 2023
Job Description:
Baylor Scott & White Health is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN)
Manager, Renal PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a nursing job in
Temple, Texas. Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Renal PCU - Progressive Care Unit
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: Ongoing
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours
- Employment Type: PermanentJOB SUMMARY The Manager, Nursing
Registered Nurse (RN) 1 is accountable for creating and sustaining
a healthy work environment for assigned nursing and unit-based
personnel which fosters excellent professional nursing practice,
mutual conclusion-making, inter-professional synergy and
partnership, and a safe and caring environment for patients, family
and staff. The manager plans, develops, implements, evaluates and
monitors policies and procedures, budgets and the allocation of
resources, continuous quality and performance improvement
initiatives, educational programs and mutual governance councils to
achieve departmental and organizational goals and targets. Provides
nursing care as needed. THIS JOB DESCRIPTON CAN BE USED ONLY FOR A
NURSING MANAGER OF AN INPATIENT, ACUTE CARE, PATIENT CARE UNIT
WHICH REQUIRES 24X7 STAFFING AND HAS BUDGETED PAID FTES OF AT LEAST
5 FTES AND LESS THAN 60 FTES.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLE
- Professional Practice Environment: Develops and articulates a
vision for nursing practice for area of responsibility. Engages
supervisors and staff in the development and implementation of
departmental goals and targets. Creates, fosters and sustains a
healthy work environment through mutual governance structures and
processes which helps evidence-based nursing practice and research.
Facilitates the professional development of staff including
clinical and leadership expertise, through role modeling, teaching
and coaching/mentoring. Ensures that staff members maintain
proficiency based on standards of practice for patient population
served. Ensures that staff are well-informed by communicating to
staff in a timely manner new/revised protocols, policies and
procedures, guidelines and standards.
- Quality, Evidence-based Practice and Research: Maintains
current knowledge in evidence-based clinical and headship
practices, nursing research findings, patient care delivery models
and work redesign to proactively identify, plan, implement,
evaluate and monitor quality/performance improvement initiatives to
advance practice and improve patient care. Systematically studies
and evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
based on a variety of indicators including, but not limited to,
State and national regulatory bodies and related national
benchmarks. Facilitates practice changes through use of
evidence-based practices and research findings by nursing heads and
staff. Identifies, proposes and conducts clinical research.
- Caring Practices/Service Excellence: Creates and sustains a
humane, helpful, safe and therapeutic environment for patients,
families and staff. Examines patterns and trends from departmental
patient care conferences, interprofessional rounds and outcome
data, and implements changes to ensure best caring practices and
outcomes for patients, families and staff. Champions service
excellence initiatives and ensures consistent implementation by
staff. Fosters an environment that is helpful of staff's
professional and personal growth. Accountable for development and
implementation of the department's succession plan.
- Response to Diversity: Identifies issues arising from personal
differences and develops awareness of these issues in nursing
staff, medical staff and other health care providers. Role models,
teaches and provides age-specific and developmentally-appropriate
patient care in accordance with established guidelines and scope of
duty or practice. Identifies and resolves conflicts that affect
performance and/or the work environment.
- Advocacy and Moral Agency: Advocates on behalf of the nursing
staff to represent the concerns of patients, families and staff.
Fosters an ethical practice environment for professional practice
and patient care based on optimum communication, synergy and
coordination of care. Identifies and helps resolve ethical and
clinical concerns. Promotes health care at local, state and
national levels.
- Facilitation of Learning: Monitors the learning needs of staff
and patients/families and assists in the design, implementation and
evaluation of appropriate, cost-effective educational opportunities
to enhance their knowledge and skills. Facilitates the learning for
patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health
care team and community.
- Partnership: Role models, teaches and mentors professional
leadership and accountability for nursing's role within the
inter-professional health care team. Heads and participates in
departmental, hospital and system-wide programs, committees and
special projects to achieve target outcomes. Partners with medical,
allied health and administrative staff to ensure provision of safe,
quality, attentive health care.
- Systems Thinking: Integrates knowledge of organizational
mission, goals, and systems into staff and patient strategies
Studies and prioritizes different demands, taking effective action
to redesign systems to best meet the needs of patient population
and staff.
- Professionalism: Improves nursing practice and the work
environment through participation in mutual governance and the
conclusion-making processes, and meaningfully recognizing the
contributions of others. Identifies personal goals and seeks
opportunities to pursue life-long learning through continuing
education, networking with professional colleagues, membership and
involvement in professional nursing organizations, self-study,
professional reading, certification and seeking advance degrees.
Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues
and others. Achieves national board certification in specialty
within two years of promotion/appointment as Nursing Supervisor.KEY
SUCCESS FACTORS
- Knowledge and expertise of nursing and patient care standards
and procedures.
- Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and
guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and
department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures
governing the provision of nursing care applicable to the area of
assignment.
- Knowledge of medical terminology; methods and practices of
health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention
and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their
physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse
reactions.
- Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and
patient privacy rights.
- Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly; both verbally and
in writing.
- Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care
to all patients through the nursing process and standards of
nursing practice with care and respect for the diversity of human
experience and to develop, evaluate, implement and, as necessary,
modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of separate
patients.
- Ability to make operational conclusions around how work gets
done - quality and productivity standards, measurable goals for
employees and project teams, etc.
- Ability to use broader aims to resolve how best to use
resources to meet schedules and goals.
- Ability to make or approve effective hiring and termination
conclusions.
- Ability to evaluate and recommend changes to policies, and
establish procedures that affect the managed organization.
- General computer skills, including but not limited to:
Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll
systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.BENEFITS Our
competitive benefits package includes the following
- Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
- 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%
- Tuition Reimbursement
- PTO accrual beginning Day 1 Note: Benefits may vary based upon
position type and/or levelQUALIFICATIONS- EDUCATION - Bachelor's-
MAJOR - Nursing- EXPERIENCE - 3 Years of Experience-
CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION - Registered Nurse (RN) Basic
Life Support (BLS): BLS or BLS within 30 days of hire or
transfer.Recruiter: Joel Aleman Baylor Scott and White Job ID .
Posted job title: RN Manager Renal Transplant Unit About Baylor
Scott & White Health As the largest not-for-profit health system in
the state of Texas, Baylor Scott & White promotes the health and
well-being of every individual, family and community it serves. It
is committed to making quality care more accessible, convenient and
affordable through its integrated delivery network, which includes
the Baylor Scott & White Health Plan, Baylor Scott & White Research
Institute, the Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance and its
leading digital health platform - MyBSWHealth. Through 51 hospitals
and more than 1,100 access points, including flagship academic
medical centers in Dallas, Fort Worth and Temple, the system offers
the full continuum of care, from primary to award-winning specialty
care. Founded as a Christian ministry of healing more than a
century ago, Baylor Scott & White today serves more than three
million Texans. Benefits
- Holiday Pay
- Continuing Education
- 401k retirement plan
- Wellness and fitness programs
- Employee assistance programs
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits . click apply for full job details
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