Mgr Professional Practice

Manager Of Professional Practice

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The Manager of Professional Practice is a registered professional nurse who provides leadership and management of a specific area through the application of advanced competencies in communication; job knowledge, professionalism and business skills. The Manager of Professional Practice Nurse Executive is a member of the Chief Nursing Officer's administrative team and serves as her designee for assigned responsibilities. He/she effectively partners with hospital leadership, medical staff and other departments to create a center of excellence for his/her responsibilities and to meet the hospital's mission, vision and goals. This position provides direct leadership for the enhancement of an accountability based practice model which is created in a strong professional practice setting. The nurse leader will assume responsibility for championing the nursing professional practice model, shared governance, ongoing professional development and maintenance of competencies that support professional nursing practice. The Manager of Professional Practice serves as sponsor for performance improvement; inspires others to seek opportunities to grow and improve their performance and successfully applies lean and evidenced based practice to ensure all targets pillar outcomes are achieved. This leader creates a safety of culture by way of professional development for leaders, staff and physicians. He/she effectively uses data and technology to make decisions and proactively mitigates unnecessary risks for his/her area of responsibility providing instruction and mentoring for assigned leaders to be able to do the same. This leader creates a desirable, safe work environment that enables the organization to meet or exceed all licensure, regulatory and accreditation standards. He/she models the way by fostering exemplary skills in attaining effective teamwork and collaboration with physicians, staff, patients and other departments. Performs other duties related to role as assigned. It is expected that all Nurse Leaders are licensed, knowledgeable and uphold the practice of nursing as outlined by the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act and implements the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards put forth by the American Nurses Association. As a member of the patient services team, it is expected the individual upholds the voice of the patient, system policies and procedures while supporting service excellence goals.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

• Exemplary Practice and Outcomes
• Resources and Support
• Interdisciplinary Teamwork and Collaboration
• Professional Development
• Evidence Based Practice and Research

Required Minimum Education:

• Bachelors Nursing
• Masters Other

Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s):

• BLS - Basic Life Support
• BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor or RN - Reg Nurse (Single State) or RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact

Additional License(s) and Certification(s):

• National certification in nursing specialty Preferred
• Must have a current BLS card from the American Heart Association on the first day of employment in position.

Required Minimum Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in nursing management Required
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Registered Nurse Required
• Minimum 2 years to four (4) years of progressive clinical, leadership and/or operational responsibility Required
• Experience in a complex healthcare environment with significant exposure to matrix operating structures Required
• Participation in a journey to excellence with successful attainment of national recognition such as Magnet, Baldridge, Pathways to Excellence or unit based programs. Required

Required Minimum Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to lead change management, with positive impact on quality and/or safety performance
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and relationship building; a knowledge of the health care environment; leadership that includes such skills as successfully implementing and managing a change process ability to use systems thinking- and inspire, coach others to be successful; model the way for professional practice; professionalism and teamwork/collaboration for self/department/medical staff; and possess necessary business skills to manage human and material resources.
• Must be a continuous learner who understands health care financing; strategy and operations for running a business unit(s); and effectively employ data and technology to support work processes and make decisions.
• Supports shared governance or shared decision making; manage the design and delivery of care that is based on evidence and focused on quality and safety
• Knowledge of risk management and various accreditation/regulations/licensing requirements assuring that these are upheld while advancing industry standards through the achievement of goals by effective management and measurement of outcomes.

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