RN Transport Manager McLane Childrens

JOB SUMMARY The Manager Transport Registered Nurse (RN) is accountable for creating and sustaining a healthy work environment for assigned nursing and unit-based personnel in order to provide a safe and caring environment for patients, family and staff.
This includes leadership and direction of personnel with the coordination of both ground and air transport providers.
The Manager plans, develops, implements, evaluates and monitors policies and procedures, budgets and the allocation of resources, continuous quality improvement initiatives, educational programs and governance councils to achieve departmental and organizational goals and goals.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLE Professional Practice Environment: Creates, fosters and sustains a healthy work environment which helps using clinical reasoning and conducting accurate clinical assessments according to practice standards.
Engages supervisors and staff in providing safe, cost-effective, efficient care based on patient and family needs.
Develops and articulates a vision for nursing practice for area of responsibility.
Modifies plan to meet clinical outcomes.
Quality, Evidence-based Practice and Research: Evaluates the quality and effectiveness of the Transport nursing practice, including, but not limited to, nursing sensitive indicators.
Facilitates practice changes through utilization of evidence-based practice and research findings by nursing leaders and staff Caring Practices/Service Excellence: Creates and sustains a compassionate, helpful, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff.
Fosters an environment that is helpful of staff's professional and personal growth.
Accountable for the development of their department's succession plan.
Examines patterns and trends from departmental patient care conferences, inter-professional rounds and outcome data, and implements changes to ensure best caring practices and outcomes for patients, families and staff.
Response to Diversity: Ensures the development of awareness by nursing and medical staff, and other health care providers, of issues arising from individual differences.
Role models, teaches and provides age-specific and developmentally appropriate patient care in accordance with established guidelines and scope of duty or practice.
Identifies and resolves conflicts that affect performance and the work environment.
Advocacy and Moral Agency: Advocates on behalf of the Transport nursing staff to represent the concerns of patients, families and staff.
Fosters an ethical practice environment for professional practice and patient care based on optimum communication, teamwork and coordination of care.
Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
Advocacy and Moral Agency: Advocates on behalf of the nursing staff to represent the concerns of patients, families and staff.
Fosters an ethical practice environment for professional practice and patient care based on optimum communication, teamwork and coordination of care.
Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
Promotes health care at local, state and national levels.
Facilitation of Learning: Monitors the learning needs of staff and assists in the design of educational opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills.
Facilitates the learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and community.
Assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes.
Collaboration: Role models, teaches and mentors professional leadership and accountability for nursing's role within the inter-professional health care team.
Leads and participates in departmental, hospital and system-wide programs, committees and special projects to develop and implement an integrated plan of care.
Open and sensitive to all team members unique contributions.
Delegates tasks and care to appropriate staff and ensures timely follow-up.
Systems Thinking: Integrates knowledge of organizational mission, goals, and systems into staff and patient strategies for problem-solving for patients, family and staff.
Recognizes that resources are limited and considers factors related to safety, effectiveness and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.
Analyzes and prioritizes competing demands, taking effective action to redesign systems to best meet the needs of patient population and staff.
Professionalism: Improves Transport nursing practice and the work environment through participation in shared governance and the decision-making processes, and meaningfully recognizing the contributions of others.
Identifies personal goals and seeks opportunities to pursue life-long learning through continuing education, networking with professional colleagues, membership and involvement in professional nursing organizations, self-study, professional reading, certification and seeking advance degrees.
Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues and others.
Achieves national board certification in specialty within two years of appointment as Transport Nursing Manager.
KEY SUCCESS FACTORS Knowledge and understanding of nursing and patient care standards and procedures.
Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care applicable to the area of assignment.
Knowledge of medical terminology; principles and practices of health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse reactions.
Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.
Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly; both verbally and in writing.
Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care to all patients through the nursing process and standards of nursing practice with consideration and respect for the diversity of human experience and to develop, evaluate, implement and, as necessary, modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of individual patients.
Ability to make operational judgments around how work gets done - quality and productivity standards, measurable goals for employees and project teams, etc.
Ability to use broader goals to establish how best to use resources to meet schedules and goals.
Ability to make or approve effective hiring and termination outcomes.
Ability to evaluate and recommend changes to policies, and establish procedures that affect the managed organization.
General computer skills, including but not limited to: Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.
BENEFITS Our competitive benefits package includes the following Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% Tuition Reimbursement PTO accrual beginning Day 1 Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level QUALIFICATIONS EDUCATION - Bachelor's EXPERIENCE - 3 Years of Experience CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION Basic Life Support (BLS): BLS or BLS within 30 days of hire or transfer.
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