Progressive Care Nurse Manager

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Fertility and family building benefits

Educational assistance

Job summary

Frankfort Regional Medical Center is seeking a Progressive Care Nurse Manager to lead daily operations of the 3rd Floor Progressive Care unit in Frankfort, KY. You will oversee staffing, quality of care and clinical governance to ensure patient-centered outcomes.

The role requires an RN license (KY or compact), a BSN within 6 months, a preferred graduate degree, and 3 years of clinical leadership experience. BLS and active professional association within 1 year are expected.

Qualifications

• Graduate from an accredited nursing program.
• Current RN licensure in Kentucky or compact state.
• 3 years of related clinical experience.
• Leadership experience preferred.
• BLS certification required.
• Professional association within 1 year.

Responsibilities

• Create a superior clinical identity by implementing evidence-based practices to enhance patient safety and outcomes.
• Demonstrate knowledge of growth, development, assessment, and care for patients across ages.
• Lead staffing: interviewing, hiring and training new staff.
• Oversee care on the unit with consistent support for staff.
• Meet unit standards of care and complete competency checks.
• Ensure proper staffing levels and workflow on the unit.
• Coordinate unit activities, safety procedures, and departmental operations.
• Address patient, visitor, and physician concerns promptly and professionally.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and counseling to department staff.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to improve patient care delivery.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Staff management

Clinical mentorship

Patient safety

Staff development

Education

RN license

BSN within 6 months

Graduate degree preferred

Job description

Introduction

Are you ready to manage in a new era as a Progressive Care Nurse Manager where building a healthier tomorrow is more than a job? Our Frankfort Regional Medical Center team is committed to partnership, innovation, legacy and improving more lives in more ways.

Benefits

Frankfort Regional Medical Center offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Our teams are dedicated to improving human life. Each year about five percent of all U.S. hospital services happen at an HCA Healthcare facility. Make an impact as a Progressive Care Nurse Manager where your passion for leading and creativity are valued. We want your knowledge and expertise!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The 3 rd Floor Progressive Care Manager ensures high quality, patient-centered care through oversight of the overall daily function and staffing of the unit/department. The Manager monitors and evaluates the provision of nursing care in accordance with established policies/procedures and holds staff accountable for quality and clinical outcomes in support of facility objectives.

What you will do in this role:

• Help create a superior clinical identity by operationalizing evidence-based practices to enhance patient safety and quality outcomes, while ensuring adherence to standards of care.
• Demonstrate knowledge of human growth and development, assessment, range of treatment, and care of patients appropriate to the ages of patients served.
• Manage all staffing needs and personnel management including interviewing, hiring and training new staff members.
• Oversee care of patients on unit, providing consistent support and expertise to staff.
• Perform duties in accordance with unit specific standards of care and evidenced by completion of a competency skills check list.
• Maintain overall workflow of unit by ensuring proper staff levels.
• Manage and coordinate all unit activities including safety procedures, unit goals and department operations.
• Handle patient, visitor, or physician complaints promptly and in a professional manner.
• Provide leadership, coaching and counseling to department employees.
• Collaborate with other disciplines and departments to improve patient care delivery.

What qualifications you will need:

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing required.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing required or must be obtained within 6 months of hire; Graduate degree in healthcare related field preferred.
• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of Kentucky or compact state required.
• 3 years of related clinical experience required.
• Prior related clinical leadership experience strongly preferred.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) required.
• Professional Association required within 1 year.

Frankfort Regional Medical Center (https://frankfortregional.com/) has provided quality healthcare services for over 40 years. We give patient's access to trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 170+ bed hospital is one of the region's leading acute care facilities in Central Kentucky. Frankfort Regional has built an excellent reputation for outstanding subspecialty services. In addition, we have an exceptional network of quality primary care physicians in both family practice and internal medicine. We are consistently named as one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky.

At Frankfort Regional Medical Center, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

If this is the kind of dynamic growth opportunity that compels you,

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.