Assistant Nurse Manager, 5E Cardiac Telemetry, 7p-7a

Norton Healthcare; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Norton Healthcare is seeking an Assistant Nurse Manager to provide daily operational leadership for a patient care area, focusing on safe, effective, patient- and family-centered care.

The role collaborates with the Nurse Manager to maintain a financially stable unit and to promote staff development, education, and evidence-based practice through a Practice Governance framework.

Responsibilities

• Oversees daily operations of a patient care area and ensures safe, patient- and family-centered care.
• Supervises licensed and non-licensed staff and mentors/precepts staff during direct care.
• Collaborates with the Nurse Manager to promote financial stability of the unit and advance evidence-based practice.

Job description

Responsibilities

The Assistant Nurse Manager is a professional nurse leader who has daily operational responsibility for a patient care area/department and focuses on safe effective patient and family centered care, customer satisfaction and quality outcomes. The Assistant Nurse Manager works collaboratively with the Nurse Manager to create and maintain a financially stable unit, and to promote self and staff development with an emphasis on evidence based practice and education supported by a Practice Governance framework. The Assistant Nurse Manager supervises licensed and non-licensed staff members and when assuming a direct care role has the responsibility to assess, develop, implement and evaluate plans of care. He/she applies his/her educational and professional experiences in the delivery of quality care and mentoring/precepting staff. The Assistant Nurse Manager ensures that the Swanson Theory of Caring and patient/family centered care are the foundation for nursing practice and that staff at all levels are involved in allocation of resources, interdisciplinary activities and collaboration.