Job Description

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Job Title

Assistant Nurse Manager - Progressive Care Unit

Location

Port St Lucie

Facility

Tradition Hospital

Department

TMC PCU 7th Floor-Cleveland Clinic Martin Health

Job Code

000880

Shift

Nights

Schedule

6:30pm-7:00am

Join Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital’s team of caregivers that provide top-quality patient care to the communities in and around Port St. Lucie. Opening its doors in 2013 and expanding in 2017, thisstate-of-the-artacute care facility has 177 patient rooms and offers services in a wide variety of specialties to meet community needs.You'llbe supported as you follow your dreams and find where you belong, here at Tradition Hospital.

TraditionHospitalis looking to add an Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) to the team who will overseethe 20-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and 17-bed Progressive Care Unit (PCU) on the 7thfloor. Both of these unitscarefor patients with life-threatening illnesses or injuries and complex medical conditions, often involving vital functions,systemsor organs.Patientshereare closelymonitoredand cared for around the clock and when it comes to providing critical care, nothing is more critical than teamwork.In this role, you will provide clinical supervision and coordinate operations with other departmental disciplines under the direction of the Nurse Manager.This role involves ensuring effective and efficient patient care across all age groups during assigned shifts or as designated. In the absence of the Nurse Manager, you will assume leadership responsibilities tomaintaincontinuity of care and operational excellence. This position offersa great wayto gain extensive leadership experience while continuing to provide the best support and treatment possible.

A caregiver in this position works nights from 6:30PM – 7:00AM.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Supervise and coordinate unit clinical operations.

• Provide patient care.

• Facilitate communication and collaboration among unit caregivers and other departments/units.

• Ensure continuity of patient care information between shifts.

• Coordinate patient admitting, discharges, transfers and other operational issues.

• Review major operational patient care issues with Nurse Managers.

• Provide ongoing clinical evaluations of caregivers, counsel caregivers on performance issues, administer initial corrective actions andmonitorattendance issues.

• Interview, select and orient new caregivers.

• Prepare work schedules to ensure adequate coverage on all shifts.

• Participate in and support quality improvement projects, outcomes,studiesand research initiatives.

• Assumeresponsibilitiesof the Nurse Manager in their absence.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Graduate from an accredited school of professional nursing

• Bachelor’sDegree inNursing(BSN)

• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross

• Two years of recent clinical nursing experience

• Strongdemonstratedclinical knowledge and skills

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Two years of critical care nursing experience in the ICU

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or ALS through the American Red Cross

• NIH Stroke Scale certification

• Leader or charge nurse experience

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of motion, manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.

• Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.

• Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.

• Requires some exposure to communicable disease or bodily fluids.

• Medium Work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

• Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.

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