NURSE NIGHT MANAGER

Job Purpose:

Promotes and restores patients' health by developing day-to-day management and long-term planning of the patient care area; directing and developing staff; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary professional staffs; providing physical and psychological support for patients, friends, and families.

Duties:

* Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.

* Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.

* Maintains nursing operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.

* Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care; enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations; measuring health outcomes against standards; making or recommending adjustments.

* Maintains nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training nurses and auxiliary staff.

* Completes patient care requirements by scheduling and assigning nursing and staff; following up on work results.

* Maintains nursing staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.

* Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.

* Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching and counseling patient, friends, and family and reinforcing their understanding of disease, medications, and self-care skills.

* Provides information to patients and health care team by answering questions and requests.

* Resolves patient needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.

* Maintains safe and clean working environment by designing and implementing procedures, rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from other health care professionals.

* Protects patients and employees by developing and interpreting infection-control policies and protocols; enforcing medication administration, storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.

* Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by monitoring confidential information processing.

* Maintains documentation of patient care services by auditing patient and department records.

* Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.

* Ensures operation of medical and administrative equipment by verifying emergency equipment availability; completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques..

* Maintains nursing supplies inventory by studying usage reports; identifying trends; anticipating needed supplies; approving requisitions and cost allocations.

* Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

* Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.

* Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

Skills/Qualifications:

Judgment, Supervision, Informing Others, Nursing Skills, Creating a Safe, Effective Environment, Hospital Environment, Medical Teamwork, Listening, Pain Management, Administering Medication, Adult Health