Registered Nurse (RN) - Manager, Labor and Delivery - $146K-219K per year

Adventist Health; San Luis Obispo (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

403b retirement plan

Life insurance

Holiday Pay

401k retirement plan

Sick pay

Health savings account

Job summary

Adventist Health is seeking an RN Manager for Labor and Delivery in San Luis Obispo, California. The role leads front-line nursing and ancillary staff to deliver safe, patient-centered care and to optimize outcomes.

The manager will supervise unit operations, collaborate with physicians and department leaders, and ensure regulatory compliance while maintaining high satisfaction among patients, families, and staff. Requires RN licensure and BLS; leadership experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in nursing or equivalent combination of education/related experience: Required
• Master's Degree: Preferred
• Five years' technical experience: Preferred
• One year's leadership experience: Preferred
• Two years' experience of acute care nursing in hospital setting: Preferred
• RN licensure in the state of practice: Required
• CPR/BLS certification: Preferred
• National specialty certification in area of expertise or in nursing administration: Preferred
• BLS certification from AH policy: Required
• AHA-NRP or ARC-NALS: Required

Responsibilities

• Builds a high performing clinical work team by recruiting and retaining skilled professional staff.
• Sets and strives to achieve goals for patient safety, quality of care and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Conducts daily rounds with physicians and other staff and coordinates appropriate care.
• Directs/monitors personnel in the performance of patient care activities to ensure adequate patient care and quality of work.
• Initiates and coordinates conferences with health team members, patients, and families to revise care plans.

Skills

RN leadership experience

Acute care nursing experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in nursing

Master's Degree

Job description

Adventist Health is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Manager, Labor and Delivery for a nursing job in San Luis Obispo, California.

Job Description & Requirements

Adventist Health is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Manager, Labor and Delivery for a nursing job in San Luis Obispo, California.

• Specialty: Labor and Delivery
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: ASAP
• Duration: Ongoing
• Employment Type: Staff

Nestled on the Central California Coast, Adventist Health Sierra Vista has been providing care to our community since 1959. Our 162-bed acute care facility includes a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and county designated trauma center. San Luis Obispo offers the excitement of a lively community while being a fifteen-minute drive from the serenity of Avila Beach, known for their natural hot springs, and Pismo Beach, known for their sand dunes and eucalyptus trees. Featuring a charming downtown, comfortable coastal weather, idyllic views, and an active lifestyle San Luis Obispo offers much to be had.

Job Summary:

Creates an environment where front line nurses and ancillary staff provide whole person care that is safe, complication free, and optimizes functional independence for each patient. Maintains a highly-visible presence on the unit. Collaborates closely with staff, charge nurses, physicians, and other department leaders to ensure that clinical operations are efficient and effective, and achieve high patient/family/staff satisfaction. Supervises and directs the activities of various levels of assigned nursing and ancillary personnel utilizing both professional and supervisory discretion and independent judgment.Schedules, leads, and coordinates the daily activities of a defined unit on an assigned shift. Assists leadership in accomplishing unit and organizational goals.

Job Requirements:

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in nursing or equivalent combination of education/related experience: Required
• Master's Degree: Preferred
• Five years' technical experience: Preferred
• One year's leadership experience: Preferred
• Two years' experience of acute care nursing in hospital setting: Preferred

Licenses/Certifications:

• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice: Required
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification or Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from approved vendor per AH policy: Preferred
• National specialty certification in area of expertise or in nursing administration: Preferred

Facility Specific License/Certifications:

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from approved vendor per AH policy: Required

Department Specific License/Certifications:

• AHA-NRP or ARC-NALS: Required

Essential Functions:

• Builds a high performing clinical work team by recruiting and retaining skilled professional staff. Builds a strong infrastructure with designated charge nurses and unit champions. Engages staff in developing action plans for needed change to create safe, desired outcomes. Completes periodic evaluations of personnel supervised. Coaches and disciplines personnel when deems appropriate. Monitors attendance. Works closely with staff, unit champions, and the clinical educator to identify and meet educational needs. Uses consistent exercise of discretion and judgment.
• Sets and strives to achieve goals for patient safety, quality of care and compliance with regulatory requirements. Creates a culture of open communication. Develops strategies to improve patient/family, and physician satisfaction. Establishes standards of care for professional nursing practice that staff are held accountable to. Monitors critical processes and outcomes of care through audits, analysis of data, and complaints or incident reports. Exercises discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance, evaluating and comparing possible courses-of-action, and making decisions/recommendations after considering the various possibilities.
• Conducts daily rounds with physicians and other staff and actively communicates, as needed, to coordinate appropriate care for patients and families. Directs/monitors personnel in the performance of patient care activities in order to ensure adequate patient care and quality of work. Investigates and resolves patient care and operational issues, as needed. Initiates and coordinates individual and team conferences with health team members, patients, and/or families to initiate and revise care plans for optimal, individualized patient care as per care setting.
• Assesses the personnel requirements of the unit on a daily basis and requests additional personnel when determines they are necessary. Authorizes and assigns overtime to personnel when independently determines this to be appropriate. Completes monthly unit staff schedule on time, accurately, and in collaboration with staff members and management with minimal incidents of absence or unbalanced/short staffing events.
• Facilitates throughput through early discharge of patients, pull-ahead beds, and timely admission/transfer of patients and forecasting admission. Works with facility services to assure that the department and equipment is maintained to be safe and operational. Prevents complications of care including nosocomial infections. Conducts emergency preparedness reviews.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Organizational Requirements:

Adventist Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of our associates and patients. Therefore, we require that all associates receive all required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter, where applicable. Medical and religious exemptions may apply.

Adventist Health participates in E-Verify.

About Adventist Health

Adventist Health is a faith-based, nonprofit, integrated health system serving more than 80 communities on the West Coast and Hawaii with over 400 sites of care, including 26 acute care facilities. Founded on Adventist heritage and values, Adventist Health provides care in hospitals, clinics, home care, and hospice agencies in both rural and urban communities. Our compassionate and talented team of 37,000 includes employees, physicians, allied health professionals and volunteers driven in pursuit of one mission: living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness, and hope. We are committed to staying true to our heritage by providing patient-centered, quality care. Together, we are transforming the healthcare experience with an innovative and whole-person focus on physical, mental, spiritual and social healing to support community well-being.

Benefits

• Continuing Education
• Bereavement
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Health Care FSA
• 403b retirement plan
• Employee assistance programs
• Life insurance
• Holiday Pay
• 401k retirement plan
• Sick payHealth savings account