
Assistant Nurse Manager Cardiac ICU
Summary:
Responsible for for providing clinical supervision to assigned employees and coordinating unit/area clinical operations with other departmental disciplines to ensure that safe, effective and efficient patient care is provided.
Education/Qualifications:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
- Associate Degree Nurses from North America with evidence of passing the National exam is required (USA: NCLEX – RN & Canada: Licensing Exam)
Preferred:
- Master’s degree in Nursing, Healthcare Management or Healthcare Administration
- American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) board certification or equivalent postgraduate qualification in specialty area
Experience:
Required:
- Minimum Two (2) years post-graduate Registered Nurse experience in an critical care setting is required
- Minimum Two (2) years in a senior charge nurse position, or equivalent
- Strong Cardiac ICU background experience is a must
License:
- Valid and in a good Standing License in current country of practice
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Patient Care
- Completes timely patient admission and ongoing assessments, plans and updates plan of care based on individual patient needs
- Provides direct care and evaluates outcomes, incorporating principles of family centered care
- Monitors and documents patients’ condition and effectiveness of care and interventions
- Assesses educational needs of patients and significant others considering cultural needs and other special concerns
- Provides teaching and educational material to the patient and/or significant as appropriate
- Validates and documents patient and family understand of teaching
- Administers prescribed medications in accordance with approved policies and protocols, utilizing barcode scanning
- Carries out prescribed treatments in accordance with approved policies, protocols and educational material procedures
Leadership:
- Promotes a culture of shared accountability throughout organization
- Ensure that nursing and clinical practice is in accordance with the mission and strategic plan
- Incorporates principles of Transformational and Serving Leadership
Knowledge of Health Care Environment:
- Facilitates continuous readiness for local and international licensing and accreditation bodies surveys
- Supports caregiver engagement through application of Shared Governance principles
- Identifies opportunities to integrate Emirati Nationals into roles at CCAD
Communication/Relationship building:
- Appreciates strengths of cultural diversity as contributors to the success of the organization
- Develops and maintains collaborative relationships throughout and external to, CCAD
- Work with individuals of other professions to maintain a climate of mutual respect and shared values
- Communicate with patients, families, communities, and other health professionals in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to maintaining health and treatment of disease
- Communicates with patients, families, visitors and vendors in a courteous, helpful manner, endeavoring to resolve issues at the unit/department level
- Communicates patient clinical information clearly and accurately, documenting pertinent information in medical record and ensuring complete documentation of patient care
- Engages patient and family in hand-off of clinical information and planning daily plan of care as appropriate
Business Skills:
- Evaluates, develops and coordinates implementation and revision of core standards of care, policies and SOPs
- Assumes a leadership role for operating models, supply, equipment and process standardization
- Analyzes aggregate data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement
- Identifies risks and strategies for their mitigation
Clinical/Professional Knowledge:
- Use the knowledge of one’s own role and the roles of other professions to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of the patients and
populations served - Demonstrates commitment to providing evidence based practice care by: adhering to protocols for the care of patient populations in which assigned, reporting needed changes in practice supported by evidence, and participating in evaluating patient outcomes utilizing evidence
- Delegates appropriate components of the nursing care plan to other members of the nursing team
- Maintains confidentiality regarding patient and family information by promoting professional interdisciplinary communication
- Respects Patient Rights and demonstrates behaviors of a Patients’ First Philosophy
- Incorporates the CCAD Professional Practice model and patient safety principles into clinical practice
- Reports errors and near-misses
- Responsible for completing charge capture education and in-service training for their Institute within CCAD. When charges are not captured automatically the nurse will complete within Epic in real time, Perioperative Services within 24 business hours
Professionalism:
- Leads the caregiver team in the delivery of patient care collaborating with other disciplines to facilitate achievement of planned and expected outcomes
- Apply relationship-building values and the principles of team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan and deliver patient/population-centered care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable
- Maintains confidentiality with patients and families and adheres to Mubadala Code of Conduct
- Demonstrates active participation in resource stewardship
- Provides feedback on strategies to decrease costs, adherence to safe staffing models, and use of high-cost resources
Practice-Based Learning and Personal Development:
- Accountable for establishing, maintaining and evaluating one’s own lifelong learning needs
- Committed to the development of fellow caregivers, Emirati nationals, and one’s profession
System-Based Practice and System Improvement:
- Participates in safety education programs and cause analysis as required
- Reports needed changes in practice supported by evidence
- Participating in research or quality improve