Nurse Manager - Cardiac/Telemetry - Full-Time

Nashville General Hospital is hiring a Nurse Manager (RN) for Cardiac/Telemetry in Nashville, TN.

Position Overview

The Nurse Manager (RN) is a professional who is primarily responsible for providing continual clinical and administrative direction for a specific patient care unit on a 24-hour basis. The Nurse Manager is also responsible for the recommendation, development and implementation of policies and procedures for the patient care unit, as well as the evaluation of the delivery of care.

Our benefits include:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance within first 31 days of employment
• Programs to reduce share of deductible and total out-of-pocket expenses
• Metro Health Incentive Program - Access to high-quality healthcare without incurring out-of-pocket expenses
• Short and Long-Term Disability - up to 60% of eligible weekly pay
• Life Insurance - Metro provides you with basic life and AD&D coverage equal to $50,000 ($32,500 if you are age 65 or older), at no cost to you.
• Retirement Plan - eligible up to IRS max limits and includes company contribution
• Shift and Weekend Differential Pay Offered on Nights and Weekends
• Tuition Reimbursement for employee and dependents
• 12 paid holidays - any holiday worked is another holiday banked
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Free Parking for all employees

Nurse Manager Responsibilities:

• Effectively resolves delays and conflict in an effort to expedite bed assignment
• Identifies, trends and reports barriers on patient throughput; recommends process improvements
• Communicates with payers to assure financial certification requirements are met
• Accepts and processes all requests for room assignments timely and appropriately
• Working with the medical staff, triages patients awaiting beds to assure most critical needs are met first
• Assures patients with communicable disease are accommodated with appropriate bed assignments
• Visits all patient care units on at least twice per shift to ascertain condition of patients, evaluate staffing needs and provide support to caregivers.
• Identifies complex patient needs and/or management situations and takes appropriate action to include involvement/hands care.
• Assists staff to insure delivery of efficient quality nursing care to include performing direct patient care when necessary, to include making decisions using sound nursing/management judgment exhibiting critical thinking skills.
• Effectively coordinates the transfer of patients within hospital and/or to other institutions as necessary and assigns all admissions to appropriate rooms based on needs, infection control and availability of resources to include consideration of staff competencies. May in some cases be required to assist with physical patient transport as needed.

Nurse Manager Required Qualifications:

• Graduate of an approved Nursing Program
• Bachelor’s Degree in HealthCare Administration, Management, or Nursing required, Masters preferred
• Current licensure or permit to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Tennessee or compact state
• BLS and ACLS Required
• 3 years of clinical experience working in critical care/cardiac preferred

About Nashville General Hospital

Nashville General Hospital (NGH) is Nashville’s original community-based hospital. Joint Commission accredited, NGH readily accommodates a wide range of needs from emergency services and acute care to ancillary and ambulatory services. NGH continues to maintain its strong commitment to the healthcare needs of Nashville and Davidson County underserved, while also providing care to all segments of the community

Nashville General Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

Join our team at Nashville General Hospital. Apply today!

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Free parking
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Work setting:

• Hospital
• In-person

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Critical care / cardiac: 3 years (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• RN License (Required)
• BLS Certification (Required)
• ACLS Certification (Required)

Work Location: In person