Nursing Manager - Radiation Oncology Service Line, South Clinics - Full Time

Manager, Nursing

The Manager, Nursing 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 multi-disciplinary professional staffs, and providing physical and psychological support for patients and their friends and families. This employee enforces professional staff behaviors that facilitate positive relationships among colleagues, physicians, administrators, and other hospital personnel.

Core Job Functions

• Oversees patient flow through designated clinical areas.
• 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, and measuring health outcomes against standards.
• Maintains nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training nurses and auxiliary staff.
• Completes patient care requirements by assigning nursing and staff.
• Maintains nursing staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients and their friends and families.
• Promotes patients' independence by establishing patient care goals, teaching and counseling patients, and reinforcing patients' understanding of disease, medications, and self-care.
• Resolves patient needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Maintains a safe and clean working environment by designing and implementing related procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Accounts for the collection of data to ensure performance improvement and optimal customer service standards.
• Assures all staff meet mandatory continuing education requirements and yearly hospital-based competencies.
• Provides insight on the unit(s) operations to nursing leadership to assist in the development of strategic planning and departmental expansion.
• Establishes and continuously assesses the effectiveness of the internal controls within the unit and compliance with University policies and procedures. Ensures employees are trained on controls within the function and on University policy and procedures.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

Core Qualifications

Education : Bachelor's degree in relevant field required. Experience : Minimum 3 years of relevant experience required. Certification and Licensing : Valid State of Florida RN license required. Refer to department description for applicable certification requirements. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

This is a core job profile description and is not reflective of all duties that may be assigned to a specific position in each individual department. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and primary responsibilities of this core job profile. Specific duties and tasks may vary based upon departmental needs. Other duties may be assigned to the above consistent with the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the job.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

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