Nurse Manager - Acute

Community HealthCare System; Onaga (KS); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Community HealthCare System seeks an experienced RN to manage operational aspects of care during the assigned shift within our acute hospital team.

The role emphasizes supervising staff, developing competency programs, ensuring regulatory compliance, and supporting a culture focused on patient satisfaction and staff development.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.
• Active Kansas RN license (BSN preferred).
• BLS, ACLS, TNCC, NRP and PALS certifications.

Responsibilities

• Identify direct patient care improvement opportunities and mentor staff.
• Develop competency-based programs and verify learning.
• Ensure compliance with department standards and regulations.
• Promote a strong patient care culture and advocate for staff.
• Monitor patient satisfaction and drive corrective actions.
• Maintain regulatory readiness and track clinical indicators.
• Supervise staff on duty and coordinate care with multidisciplinary teams.
• Participate in staff interviews and hiring recommendations.

Skills

Staff supervision

Regulatory compliance

Quality improvement

Education

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or higher

Registered Nurse license in Kansas

Certifications: BLS, ACLS, TNCC, NRP, PALS

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY

A member of the Community HealthCare System, Inc. acute hospital team whose primary focus is managing the operational aspects of providing services to patients, physicians, and staff during assigned shift.

Brief Description

A member of the Community HealthCare System, Inc. acute hospital team whose primary focus is managing the operational aspects of providing services to patients, physicians, and staff during assigned shift.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions Statement(s)

• Identify direct patient care improvement opportunities. Through mentoring and modeling the professional nurse role, strengthen direct care staff's professional nurse/aide role in patient care.
• Identify needs, assure development of, implementation of competency-based programs and verify competencies have been learned and are being used.
• Assure compliance with department service and hospital standards.
• Develop a strong patient care culture by identifying underlying staff issues and concerns, work through issues to resolution, and represents/advocates staff with supervisor and administration.
• Monitor patient satisfaction (oral and written) and develop and implement corrective goals.
• Assure regulatory compliance and readiness.
• Develops acute and swing bed clinical goals and helps attain achievement of both systemwide and departmental goals.
• Primary accountability for monitoring clinical care and clinical indicators and recommend performance improvement processes as needed.
• Provide direct supervision of staff on duty identifying issues and needs and obtaining reasonable fixes.
• Coordinate work of staff nurses and aides, case managers, social workers, respiratory care practitioners and other personnel to assure quality, patient centered care.
• Assess staff's knowledge, skills and abilities during the annual performance development process including but not limited to developing competencies/skills and behaviour interventions and communicate assessment that provides performance development opportunities.
• Participate in the interview and selection process of staff and make recommendations for hire.
• As needed, provide on-the spot discipline, give verbal warnings and complete the formal process for performance improvement.
• Supports and abides by the mission, values, and policies of CHCS in all activities.
• On-going compliance with CHCS educational requirements.
• All other duties as required.

Requirements

• Graduate of accredited School of Nursing
• Current State of Kansas RN license (BSN preferred)
• BLS, ACLS, TNCC, NRP, PALS