Nurse Manager - OR

Company: Tufts Medical Center
Location: Quincy
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

Nurse Manager - Operating Room Boston, MA, USA Full-time Employment Type: Full Time Shift: Days Work Address: 800 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111 Job Category (for posting purposes): Nursing Leadership Company Description Join our talented nursing team at Tufts Medical Center! Job Description The Nurse Manager assumes accountability and responsibility for translating the philosophy, objectives, policies and procedures of the Tufts Medical Center and nursing/patient care services into effective action. Responsibility is centralized within six major areas: leadership, clinical practice, professional development, strategic planning, and management of the environment and resource management. The Nurse Manager provides an environment, which supports and fosters the patient and family centered model of care. PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: The Nurse Manager provides the leadership and the environment in which staff can develop and integrate their visions, ideas and passions about the practice of nursing. Together they will achieve high quality, effective, and efficient patient care. Leadership: Serves as a high visibility leader, role model and professional mentor; represents a positive image of the unit/practice area to the organization Ensures excellence in quality, safety and regulatory requirements Ensures patient care delivery is safe, of high quality and is cost effective Manages systems in order to accomplish patient, unit, departmental and institutional goals Effectively defines and communicates a vision of excellence for the unit/practice area Creates opportunities for multidisciplinary forums in order to solve problems and facilitate planning Embraces the concept of change and leads staff through the change process Seeks opportunities to build working alliances with other professional groups Responsible for patient and family satisfaction Facilitates and promotes achievement of unit based/practice area goals in line with the medical center mission Clinical Practice Development: Monitors and ensures excellence in the clinical practice of nursing and the delivery of patient care on unit/practice area Assures standards of care are consistently achieved on the unit/practice area Integrates the nursing service philosophy into all unit practices and programs Keeps current with literature regarding changing practices, interventions and research in patient care and health care delivery Utilizes a performance improvement process to assess the response to care from patients, families and others Develops and monitors systems that promote and support nursing practice Consults with patients and families in response to staff nurse requests, direct family requests and/or direct assessment of patient/family responses to hospitalization Interacts with staff nurses for the purpose of assessing the care provided and the nurses capabilities to provide care in changing circumstances Professional Development: Creates an environment that supports and celebrates the professional growth of the nursing staff Communicates and consistently supports, by behavior, the philosophy and goals of the unit department and the hospital Seeks out opportunities for forums that will meet the professional and clinical goals of staff and self. Seeks guidance for appropriate resources in achieving unit and departmental goals. Demonstrates skill to identify and negotiate conflict. Participates on and provides leadership to departmental and hospital committee as requested. Creates an environment that fosters collaborative relationships. Ensures clinical competence of staff. Supports the ongoing development of staff through coaching, mentoring and role modeling. Promotes staffs participation in unit and hospital committees. Creates a unit culture that values and supports ongoing inquiry and learning. Provides timely feedback and evaluation to staff through formal and informal forums. Provides appropriate education and opportunities for development of unlicensed personnel.

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