Nurse Manager - Stead Family Children's Hospital - Pediatric Cath Lab
University of Iowa

The University of Iowa Health Care, Department of Nursing is seeking a Nurse Manager to provide leadership and management of the Nursing team in delivering safe, quality, family-centered patient care in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams

Position Specific Summary

Provide managerial and clinical leadership for Children's Hospital Pediatric Cath Lab . Ensures that all staff provide safe clinical care and have the education, methods and resources to accomplish their performance objectives.

Positions in this job family usually have limited involvement in direct patient care and focus their efforts in planning, organizing, directing, evaluating, and improving health care operations, clinical education programs and research programs of clinical and health service departments.

Key Areas of Responsibilities

• Hire, develop and manage the performance of staff in a departmental unit or functional division
• Prepare budget or assist in development; provide projections and recommendations. Manage financial data and monitor budget to meet goals. Resolve budget discrepancies
• Identify trends and determine QA priorities. Develop quality standards. Allocate resources to meet quality and productivity expectation. Develop, implement, and monitor plan to enhance patient satisfaction
• Identify needs, trends, and forecasts in order to provide quality patient care
• Develop action plans for unit that meet strategic goals; provide progress reports to department director or director of clinical functions
• Advocate for needs of unit with healthcare leaders; may collaborate with medical director of unit regarding program development process improvements and equipment budgets
• Provide clinical education to develop staff competency. Oversee clinical education activities and agreements with other educational institutions
• Knowledge of and ability to manage effective and smooth operations in a clinical service or department by utilizing various management principles and techniques
• Understanding of the issues related to the decision-making process; ability to analyze situations fully and accurately, and reach productive decisions
• Knowledge and understanding of legislation and regulatory bodies affecting healthcare and clinical research practices
• Ability to apply organization's performance management system, practices, and tools to developing and improving individual, team and organizational performance

Percent of Time: 100%

Schedule: 40 hours per week, Days

Location: Stead Family Children's Hospital (SFCH)

Rotations: Occasional call shift

Salary: $66,216 per year to commensurate

P&S Pay Plan: https://hr.uiowa.edu/pay/professional-and-scientific-compensation

Benefits Highlights:

• Regular salaried position located in Iowa City, Iowa
• Fringe benefit package including paid vacation; sick leave; health, dental, life and disability insurance options; and generous employer contributions into retirement plans
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Education or Equivalency Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Nursing is required. Preferred Master's degree (in nursing, MBA or healthcare related) or Doctorate (DNP, PhD). If candidate does not have a Master's Degree they will be strongly encouraged to obtain one within 5 years of starting position.
• Current license to practice nursing in Iowa or ability to obtain an Iowa license by date of hire is required

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years current or recent (within last 12 months) experience in procedural nursing or adult or pediatric cath lab experience
• Recent Experience in clinical practice
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate with physicians, staff, patients, families, outside agencies/vendors, and the community
• Experience with unit operations including human resources, financial management, quality initiatives, and compliance with regulatory environment with various federal and state agencies and the Joint Commission
• Demonstrated experience with patient/family satisfaction initiatives including modeling service excellence principles/standards and staff engagement
• Demonstrates excellent problem-solving skills, decision making, critical thinking skills, time managemnt, organization of workload, delegation, attention to detail and thoroughness
• Must be proficient in computer software applications
• Demonstrates effective teaching skills for staff and patient education
• Experience modeling service excellence principles/standards
• Demonstrated knowledge of effective strategies for working with faculty, staff, and students from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives
• Certification in Pediatric Nursing

Desired Qualifications:

• ACLS certified or complete within 1 year
• PALS certified or complete within 1 year
• Experience working in pediatric cath lab
• Experience working in a large academic center
• Experience working in a union environment

Please attach a resume as part of the application process. Job openings are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days. This job may be removed from posting and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended. For questions or additional information, please contact Nursing Recruitment at 319-356-2285.

Successful candidates will be required to self- disclose any conviction history and subject to a criminal background check.

References:

• Five professional references will be requested and required at a later step in the recruitment process

Additional Information

• Classification Title: Nursing Manager
• Appointment Type: Professional and Scientific
• Schedule: Full-time

Compensation

• Pay Level: 6A
• Starting Salary Minimum: 66,216

Contact Information

• Organization: Healthcare
• Contact Name: Megan Garton
• Contact Email: megan-garton@uiowa.edu

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