Manager Nursing - Transplant

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Manager Nursing - Transplant','Full-time','Director/Manager/Supervisor','Full Time','Full Time','80','80','Occasional','Occasional','TEXAS-HOUSTON-ST LUKES MEDICAL CENTER','','!*!
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical
Center
A quaternary care facility
that is home of the Texas Heart® Institute, a world-class cardiovascular
research and education institution founded in 1962 by Denton A. Cooley,
MD—consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best in Cardiovascular Services
& Heart Surgery. The first hospital in Texas and the Southwest designated a
Magnet® hospital for Nursing Excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing
Center, receiving the award four consecutive times. Baylor St. Luke’s also is
home to eight freestanding emergency centers offering adult and pediatric care.
The hospital holds a collaborative partnership with Baylor College of Medicine
and affiliations with The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, The
University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston), Houston Baptist University, and
Prairie View A&M University.

Position Summary
24 hour accountability for a unit area.
 The major responsibilities are in providing leadership and communication,
monitoring the work environment, assuring quality, managing the fiscal budget,
managing human resources and ensuring the delivery of competent clinical
practice.

Unit Summary
The Solid Organ Transplant floor
(12 Tower) is a 30 bed transplant/ventricular assist device (VAD) acute
care and IMC floor.  The primary patient population consists of patients who
have undergone the following surgical procedures: heart, liver, kidney, lung, or
pancreas transplantation, or insertion of a VAD. Secondary patient populations
consist of solid organ recipients with complications related to their transplant
or VAD and medical cardiology patients. The patients must be > 12
years old, with the majority of the patients being adult and geriatric. The
floor has a central cardiac monitoring system with the capability to monitor 32
patients.

Overall,
since 1982, CHI St. Luke's Health–Baylor St. Luke's Medical
Center has been providing exceptional healthcare to patients referred for heart,
lung, kidney and liver transplantation as well as implantation of Left
Ventricular Assist Devices. The Transplant Department provides a complete
continuum of patient care, from initial counseling to post-transplant medical
follow-up. BSLMC is continuously recognized for its successful
outcomes.','!*!Minimum Qualifications


Education

Bachelor's Degree
Registered Nurse
Minimum Experience

Must have 3 years clinical experience
Must have 3 years of progressive management
experience
Position Responsibilities


Support and actualizes the Division of Nursing
philosophy and goals by assuming leadership in program development and
implementation.
Staff is developed to assume leadership roles both
formally and informally, via role modeling and facilitating staff participation
in shared governance structure.
Facilitates development and implementation to
solution to problems.
Develops and Implements effective communication
channels to provide information to all staff members, holding at least one unit
meeting per month with posting of minutes and notice.
Directs and Participates in the orientation of new
employees, evaluates programs effecting employees.
Has an identified council structure with an elected
Staff Nurse Professional Practice Council representative.  Conducts unit council
meetings monthly incorporating new knowledge and skills to meet changing needs
of patient families, department employees and institution.
Has a positive working relationship and problem
solving with other members of the patient care delivery team including
physicians and other departments.
Participates in committees and task forces as
indicated.
Facilitates staff to assume leadership
roles.
Demonstrates positive leadership skills and
communication that embraces changes, which results in achievement of
outcomes.
Staff actively Participates in clinical
decision-making affecting practice.
Promotes a caring helpful environment including the
arrangement of the physical setting and assembling equipment in a manner
conducive to more effective and efficient nursing care.
Participates in unit, service and divisional CQI/CQE
programs, documents results, reports by deadlines, formulates corrective action
plans for improvement.
Meets established research-based standards of care,
quality control targets, operationalizes CQI.
Develops a multidisciplinary program to monitor
quality patient care indicators.  
Maintains fiscal budget within established variance,
focusing on hppd, labor cost per day, overtime, orientation costs, SSP costs and
medical supplies.
Adjusts staffing patterns according to unit activity
and patient acuity.
Reviews fiscal Worksheet, analyzing variances and
implementing appropriate action plans.
Develops and Manages the unit budget to control
operational and capital expenditures for capital equipment priorities based on
patient unit needs and according to budget policy
Shared leadership in place with structured
recruitment and retention and PEP/professional practice.   
Facilitates professional growth and development of
staff utilizing career development plans.  Identifies staff career development
and training needs.  Uses CQI/CQE and staff input for development of educational
programs.  
Demonstrates accountability for human and material
resource management with division guidelines and standards by monitoring,
correcting variances for productive and non-productive utilization.
Complies with personnel policies and procedures,
follows guidelines and conducts effective performance interviews, job standards
are understood by employees, etc.
Directs and Participates in the orientation of new
employees, evaluates program's effectiveness and employee's
progress.
Participates in an innovative program (pilot study,
research project, etc.) that has an effect on patient care within the past
year.
Participates in a professional organization, (i.e.
specialty or administration).
Maintains clinical exposure through actual
intervention, coordination of patient care, role modeling, consulting, problem
solving and in-services.
Ensures the effective delivery of competent,
compassionate nursing care based on social, psychological, developmental and
spiritual needs of the patients as demonstrated by patient care outcomes
achieved through established standards of care and by the patients and families
perception of care.#LI-ER2*HEC*','We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.','2017-R0142259','CHI St. Luke's Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center','Manager Nursing - Transplant

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