Nurse Manager, Surgical Services - Orthopedics

at  Novant Health

Overview:
Novant Health is hiring a manager of surgical services for the Day shift at our New Hanover Regional Medical Center, in Wilmington NC. We’re offering up to a $7,500 relocation bonus.
Schedule: Full-Time, 1.0 FTE, 80 Hours per 2 weeks, Day Shift, 8am - 4:30pm
Department: Orthopedic Hospital
Benefits: This position is eligible for benefits. For more benefit information, please visit our website here: https://www.novanthealth.org/team-members/benefits/

Remarkable care. Remarkable careers. Why become a registered nurse at Novant Health?

• Clinical Ladder Program to help you advance your nursing career.
• Recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers by State for 2022
• One of the nation’s 150 Best Places to Work in Healthcare by Becker’s Hospital Review
• Recognized as Leaders in LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality by the Human Rights Campaign
• One of the Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion by Disability: IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities
• One of the Best Places for Diverse & Women Managers to Work by Diversity MBA Magazine
• Top ratings in patient safety from The Leapfrog Group
• Quality and safety recognition from CMS

• Responsible for the daily operations, ensuring that policies, practices, procedures and standards of performance are followed.
• Develops departmental staffing schedules, to provide staffing to meet patient care requirements and operational requirements.
• Responsible for staff education, including clinical competence, compliance and organizational initiatives.
• Develops staff using coaching for success principles, annual performance assessment, staff education assessment and facilitates staff attendance for continuing education.
• Manager will be responsible for all staff performance appraisal interviews with goal setting during annual performance appraisal and a review of goals at mid-year.
• May perform moderate or waived point of care testing per CLIA guidelines.
• Assesses external and internal customer satisfaction through daily rounding, visibility within the unit and utilizing patient satisfaction, employee satisfaction and physician satisfaction reports as a measurement.
• Supports shared governance principles, participates on unit governance councils and supports staff attendance to shared governance councils including Nursing Congress.
• Implements the principles of coaching for success, provide staff recognition and create an environment to retain and facilitate staff development.
• Maintains clinical expertise and competence in their area of responsibility. Provides patient care at regular intervals to maintain clinical skills
• Maintains current knowledge of management theories and annually attends leadership education classes.
• Communicates and shares information with staff in monthly staff meetings, shared governance format, other communication mediums and daily rounding.
• Utilizes the PDSA process and best practice research in planning the Performance Improvement goals for the unit