Assistant Nurse Manager - Main PACU, Nights

NYU Langone Health System; Village of Mineola (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center committed to exceptional patient care, teaching, and research. We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as an Assistant Nurse Manager - Main PACU, Nights, providing clinical leadership for a designated shift and supporting the nurse manager in sustaining an environment of excellence in patient care.

The role emphasizes staff development, collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, patient safety, and

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with interprofessional team to ensure excellence in quality, patient experience, and efficiency.
• Facilitates and supports positive work and care environments with diversity, equity, and inclusion in mind.
• Demonstrates commitment to staff development, coaching, and mentorship.
• Coordinates staffing, scheduling, and day-to-day operations to optimize patient outcomes and unit workflow.
• Provides direct patient care as needed to support clinical operations within the unit.

Job description

NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center, which offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. We are a major regional healthcare resource with a deep commitment to medical education and research, offering a full complement of inpatient and outpatient services. At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace inclusion and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge.

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Position Summary

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Assistant Nurse Manager - Main PACU, Nights. In this role, the successful candidate Provides clinical leadership and management for a designated time-period (shift) for a patient care unit (or clinical service in operative and ambulatory settings), consistent with the philosophy and goals of the institution, departments of nursing, unit, or program. Assists the nurse manager to develop and sustain an environment of excellence in patient/family service, growth and development of staff, and to apply evidence-based practice to improve patient care.

Job Responsibilities

• Fosters a culture embedded in NYULHs tripartite mission: to serve, to teach, and to discover. (AONL-Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Collaborates with interprofessional team to ensure excellence in quality, patient experience, and efficiency.
• Develops positive and productive relationships across disciplines to establish strategic partnerships to achieve shared goals. (AONL-Communication & Relationship Management)
• Facilitates and supports positive and productive work and care environments, founded in the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrates a steadfast commitment to engaging and meaningfully recognizing staff. (AONL-Business Skills & Principles)
• Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong professional growth and development (AONL-Leader Within)
• Collaborates with nurse manager on interviews and ensures that employees are appropriately selected, on-boarded, oriented, educated, and evaluated. Supports clinical rotations of students as part of partnerships for school affiliations. (AONL-Business Skills & Principles)
• Evaluates the performance, and assesses practice, of designated personnel in a fair and transparent manner. (AONL-Communication & Relationship Management)
• Serves as role model and resource for staff. Develops and manages employees through the promotion of professional growth and development, mentoring, appreciative coaching, counseling, and progressive discipline, as appropriate, in alignment with the principles of a caring, fair, professional work environment. (AONL-Leader Within)
• Monitors attendance of staff. Ensures appropriate staffing and skill mix to optimize patient outcomes and safety, while promoting fiscal responsibility. (AONL-Business Skills & Principles)
• Coordinates care delivery and assignment of staff based upon identified patient care needs and clinical competency for optimal unit operation and patient outcomes.
• Assists in scheduling, payroll and integrating services across the care continuum. (AONL-Professionalism, Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Provides direct patient care as needed to support the clinical operations of the unit.
• Provides leadership support of other unit(s) in the service. (AONL-Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Holds self and others accountable for the delivery of exemplary care in a cost-efficient manner (AONL-Professionalism, Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Assists with maintaining accreditation, regulatory standards, service standards and policies at the organizational, local, state and federal level. (AONL-Professionalism, Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Communicates with clarity and integrity to build trust with all stakeholders.
• Communicates significant patient care issues, family concerns, safety, risk management concerns and critical events to leadership on duty at the time, seeks consultation and assistance when indicated, and reports to the Nurse Manager or Director in timely manner.
• Communicates regularly with the Nurse Manager about patient safety, clinical practice, staff performance, and participates in implementation of unit initiatives. (AONL-Professionalism) (AONL-Communication & Relationship Management)
• Participates in the drafting of nursing and organizational policy, engaging front-line staff, incorporating the precepts of shared governance (AONL-Professionalism, Knowledge of the Health Care Environment, Communication & Relationship Management)
• Supports data collection in collaboration with the nurse manager and interprofessional team. Analyzes and utilizes data to drive practice changes that integrate quality, safety, patient experience, and productivity metrics to achieve excellence in patient and nursing outcomes. (AONL-Knowledge of the Health Care Environment)
• Assists leadership team in maintaining licenses, certifications, mandated learnings and content for unit staff. (AONL-Leadership Within)
• Fosters high reliability concepts within the unit/organizational structure (AONL-Business Skills & Principles)