Assistant Nurse Manager – ED Observation

Join the Cleveland Clinic team, where you will work next to talented caregivers and provide exceptional and highly ranked care. Our guiding principle is putting the patient’s needs first in every aspect of care and we are working harder every day to achieve that goal. Cleveland Clinic is recognized as one of the top hospitals in the country.

As an Assistant Nurse Manager, you will provide administrative, clerical, and practical support for the nurse manager. Everyone works together as a team in this unit, we have a wonderful supportive environment from teammates to manager. We treat patients with respect, passion, and honesty. Our nurses work in inpatient, outpatient, rehabilitation, and home care settings. They work with the very latest technologies, develop their nursing practices, and excel in patient care. 

Your primary duties will include: 

•Facilitating communication and collaboration among unit staff and other departments. 
•Ensuring continuity of patient care information between shifts, coordinates patient admitting, discharges, transfers, and other operational issues. 
•Reviewing major operational patient care issues with Nurse Managers. 
•Provides ongoing clinical evaluations of nurses and other direct and indirect patient care provided on assigned unit/area. 
•Counseling employees on performance issues, administers initial corrective actions, and collaborates in monitoring attendance issues. 
•Assistant Nurse Manager will have administrative duties when Nurse Manager is out and receives a stipend during that time. 

The potential future caregiver is someone who: 

•Can provide emotional, spiritual, and psychological support to patients. •
•Has High-level management and leadership skills. 
•Has the ability to schedule and manage tasks effectively. 
•Has experience with conflict resolution and problem-solving. 
•Has written and verbal communication skills. 
•Has teamwork and motivational skills. 
•Has organizational and multitasking skills. 

This opportunity has great leadership skills and management exposer. It will help you move into a future Nurse Manager role. Apply and obtain hands-on experience in this gratifying unit. 

Cleveland Clinic provides what matters most: career growth, delivering world-class care to our patients, continuous learning, exceptional benefits and working for an organization that offers many long-term career paths. Join us and experience a culture where opportunities to advance and the support to get there go hand in hand.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitates communication and collaboration among unit staff and other departments and units regarding issues related to patient care.
• Ensures continuity of patient care information between shifts, coordinates patient admitting, discharges, transfers and other operational issues.
• Reviews major operational patient care issues with Nurse Managers.
• Provides ongoing clinical evaluations of nurses and other direct and indirect patient care providers on assigned unit/area.
• Counsels employees on performance issues, administers initial corrective actions, collaborates in monitoring attendance issues.
• Alerts nurse manager of significant clinical or other performance issues.
• Participates in interviewing, selecting and appraising the performance of employees.
• Monitors the adherence to EEO/AAP goals and guidelines.
• Administers Nursing Institute, departmental and CC policies and procedures.
• Supervises and participates in the daily delivery of patient care on assigned unit/area.
• Prepares schedule of work assignment assuring adequate coverage on all shifts.
• Participates in and supports quality improvement projects, outcomes studies and research initiatives; participates in department and committees as assigned.
• Assists in orienting new personnel, continuing education and in-service educational programs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education:

• Graduated from an accredited school of professional nursing.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing required.
• Strong demonstrated clinical knowledge and skills; good oral, written and interpersonal skills, strong analytical and organization skills.

Certifications:

• Current state licensure as Registered Nurse (RN).

• Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA)

• If in a Critical Care area an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) must be presented upon hire or within first year of employment.
• Within one year of hire RNs in Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation will achieve and maintain Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) through American Heart Association (AHA) with the exception of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit RNs who must achieve and maintain Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) through American Heart Association (AHA) provider status and RNs in the Special Delivery Unit, who must achieve and maintain Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) through American Heart Association (AHA).
• ONS Chemo/Bio course complete within 2 years of employment if employed on units inpatient and/or outpatient where chemo is administered.
• If in an Adult/Combined EDs, ACLS upon hire or within one year of beginning work in the Emergency Department.

• If in an ED, Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) through American Heart Association (AHA) upon hire or within one year of beginning work in the Emergency Department.

• In Dedicated Trauma Centers, Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC – adult) or Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course (ENPC – pediatric) upon hire or within 24 months of beginning work in the Emergency Department.
• Vascular Access Registered Nurse (VARN) program attendance required and obtains either a Certified Registered Nurse Infusion (CRNI) or Vascular Access Board Certified (VA-BC) certification upon hire or within a year of hire in Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) areas.

Complexity of Work:

• Within scope of job, requires critical thinking, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment.

Work Experience:

• Minimum two year recent clinical nurse experience required.

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.