RN Manager - L&D, Mother-Baby

Jobsought; Pismo Beach (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobsought is seeking a Nursing Leader to oversee a clinical unit, ensuring safe, high-quality, patient-centered care. You will direct multidisciplinary teams, supervise nursing and support staff, and coordinate daily operations to optimize throughput and patient outcomes.

The role emphasizes staff development, adherence to regulatory standards, and collaboration with physicians and leadership to achieve high patient and family satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in nursing or equivalent combination of education/related experience required.
• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice required.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from approved vendor per AH policy required.
• AHA-NRP or ARC-NALS required.

Responsibilities

• 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 with staff, charge nurses, physicians, and other department leaders to ensure 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 using professional and supervisory discretion.
• Schedules, leads, and coordinates the daily activities of a defined unit on an assigned shift.
• Assists leadership in accomplishing unit and organizational goals.
• Builds a high performing clinical work team by recruiting and retaining skilled professional staff.
• Completes periodic evaluations of personnel supervised.
• Monitors attendance.
• Works with staff and educators to identify and meet educational needs.
• Sets and strives to achieve goals for patient safety, quality of care and regulatory compliance.
• Creates a culture of open communication.
• Develops strategies to improve patient/family and physician satisfaction.
• Establishes standards of care for professional nursing practice staff are held accountable to.
• Monitors critical processes and outcomes of care through audits or incident reports.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Unit coordination

Staff supervision

Patient safety

Regulatory compliance

Education/training

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Job description

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Builds a high performing clinical work team by recruiting and retaining skilled professional staff.
• Completes periodic evaluations of personnel supervised.
• Monitors attendance.
• Works closely with staff, unit champions, and the clinical educator to identify and meet educational needs.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in nursing or equivalent combination of education/related experience: Required
• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice: Required
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from approved vendor per AH policy: Required
• AHA-NRP or ARC-NALS: Required

Preferred

• 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
• 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