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