RN Nursing Unit Manager – Patient Care Leader

Adventist Health; Napa (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Adventist Health Napa is seeking an experienced nurse leader to supervise nursing and ancillary staff on a defined unit, ensuring safe, efficient care and collaborating with physicians and leadership to achieve high patient/family/staff satisfaction. The role involves coordinating daily operations and guiding clinical teams with independent judgment.

The incumbent will build a high-performing team, manage staffing and overtime, conduct rounds with physicians, and drive quality, safety, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in nursing or equivalent combination of education/related experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Leadership

Staff development

Education

Bachelor's Degree in nursing or equivalent combination of education/related experience

Master's Degree

Five years' technical experience

One year's leadership experience

Two years' acute care nursing in hospital setting

Job description

Adventist Health Napa is seeking an experienced nurse leader to supervise nursing and ancillary staff on a defined unit, ensuring safe, efficient care and collaborating with physicians and leadership to achieve high patient/family/staff satisfaction. The role involves coordinating daily operations and guiding clinical teams with independent judgment.

The incumbent will build a high-performing team, manage staffing and overtime, conduct rounds with physicians, and drive quality, safety, and