Assistant Nurse Manager — Patient-Centric Care Leader

Norton Healthcare; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Norton Healthcare in Louisville, KY seeks an Assistant Nurse Manager to provide daily operational leadership for a patient care area, focusing on safe, effective, patient- and family-centered care and quality outcomes.

The role collaborates with the Nurse Manager to keep the unit financially stable, promotes staff development, mentoring, and evidence-based practice within a Practice Governance framework and the Swanson Theory of Caring.

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.

Job description

Norton Healthcare in Louisville, KY seeks an Assistant Nurse Manager to provide daily operational leadership for a patient care area, focusing on safe, effective, patient- and family-centered care and quality outcomes.

The role collaborates with the Nurse Manager to keep the unit financially stable, promotes staff development, mentoring, and evidence-based practice within a Practice Governance framework and the Swanson Theory of Caring.