Assistant Nurse Manager, General Cardiology - UI Heart and Vascular Center

Assistant Nurse Manager

UI Heart and Vascular Center is seeking an Assistant Nurse Manager to provide managerial and clinical leadership for our General Cardiology team to assure that all staff provide safe clinical care and have the education, methods, and resources to accomplish performance objectives.

UI Heart & Vascular Center is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the best hospital in the state for cardiology and heart surgery patient care.

Position Responsibilities :

• Identify trends and determine QA priorities. Develop quality standards.
• Work with leadership to appropriately allocate resources to meet quality and productivity expectations.
• Collaborate with leadership to develop, implement, and monitor a plan to enhance patient satisfaction.
• Formulate, review, and revise policies and other standards of professional practice essential for optimum delivery of patient service; assures compliance with established standards of care.
• Maintain knowledge of and ability to manage effective and smooth operations within the unit by utilizing various management principles and techniques.
• Understand the issues related to the decision-making process; analyze situations fully and accurately and reach productive decisions.
• As needed ability to work outside of standard business hours to ensure all clinical and / or operational needs can be met.
• Supervise care delivery and assist in coordinating patient care teams within the unit.
• Identify needs, trends, and forecasts in order to provide quality patient care within the unit.
• Ensure appropriate staff schedules, assign and perform charge assignments.
• Provide direct patient care in the unit as needed.
• Interpret, communicate, implement, and monitor goals and objectives articulated in the institutional, departmental, and / or divisional strategic plan.
• Function innovatively and look beyond current reality to forecast future direction, take risks, challenge traditional assumptions, and solve problems creatively.
• Collaborate with leadership to develop action plans for the unit that meet strategic goals.
• Communicate with physicians, staff, and other health care providers on a regular basis to promote effective and efficient operations within the clinical outpatient unit.
• Design innovative models of care utilizing skills of the multidisciplinary team yielding efficient and effective outcomes.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary participation in the clinical problem identification and resolution processes.
• Build and sustain relationships, resolve conflict, handle negotiation effectively, and develop collaborative working relationships.
• Ensure and provide clinical education to develop staff competency.
• Oversee clinical education activities and agreements with other educational institutions.
• Ensure staff compliances are applicable and complete by required deadline(s).
• In collaboration with the HVC Human Resources Manager and HVC Leadership, hire, develop, and manage the performance of staff within the unit.
• Understand and apply appropriately the provisions of the collective bargaining agreements and the Employee Manual for Staff Nurses & Allied Health Professionals.
• Understand and oversee the daily management of ELMS for all staff.
• Apply organizational performance management system, practices, and tools to developing and improving individual, team, and organizational performance.
• Actively help manage operating expenses for the unit.
• Review with leadership financial reports and provide insights to budget variances; recommend budget ideas, resources, and cost containment strategies.
• Motivate staff to high performance by exercising strong stewardship of university resources.

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In order to be considered for an interview, applicants must upload the following documents and mark them as a "Relevant File" to the submission :

Job openings are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days and may be removed from posting and filled any time after the original posting period has ended.

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check and credential / education verification. Up to 5 professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process.

For additional questions, please contact Jordan Adam (jordan-adam@uiowa.edu) or 319-384-5699.

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