Float Nurse Manager / Internal Travel Team

Overview

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Join Emory Healthcare's Travel Team and take your career on the move.

 

As part of this dynamic team, you'll have the flexibility to work across various facilities while leveraging your expertise in your specialty to support patient care where it's needed most. Travel team members serve as skilled clinical resources, helping meet critical staffing needs across the organization while delivering the exceptional care, collaboration, and excellence that define Emory Healthcare.

Description

      Shift:          Full Time Days

                        8am – 4:30pm  

Location:          Travel between Emory Locations

                        Salary: Based on years of experience

 

Our internal travel nursing team can be a flexible program, allowing team members the ability to tailor work/life balance to fit their lifestyle. 

 

We are seeking a capable Float Nursing Manager  for the Internal Travel Team directs all aspects of management and ensures the provision of optimum patient care for a nursing unit; provides leadership in the development, implementation, and evaluation of policies, procedures, strategies, and services on a temporary basis to support the unit in the absence of the permanent leader. This role requires adaptability and ability to manage different teams in various settings, stepping in as needed to support clinical staff, ensure regulatory compliance, and address patient care needs in different areas of the healthcare organization.

 

• Prepares, develops, and submits department budget to nursing administration for final approval. Monitors expenditures to ensure compliance with fiscal constraints and explains any variances.
• Directs the allocation of resources within selected areas through planning, budget process, analysis of statistical reports and other pertinent information. Directs and supervises nursing staff.
• Develops, implements, and coordinates continuous quality/ performance improvement to enhance clinical practice and administrative process. Ensures the competence of department staff and their understanding of policies and regulations pertaining to nursing services; oversees the provision of care, and monitors staff compliance with organizational and regulatory agency requirements.
• Develops and interprets departmental short- and long-term goals and objectives.
• Meets with other staff members to discuss progress and to develop future courses of action.
• Analyzes departmental strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and constraints. Identifies measurable objectives and monitors progress toward the achievement of specified goals in keeping with operational standards.
• Establishes, revises, administers and communicates policies, procedures and related forms in accordance with state, federal, and organizational guidelines.
• Communicates and monitors compliance with regulatory, licensing and accreditation standards.
• Prepares staffing plan, reviews and approves work schedules to ensure adequate staff coverage around the clock.
• Projects staffing needs, interviews and hires employees to fill vacant positions; resolves staffing issues.
• Monitors patient care and analyzes nursing care patterns and initiates quality improvement procedures to enhance patient services; ensures a safe, therapeutic environment. Initiates patient placement to ensure the delivery of optimal nursing care and arranges for continuity of care when warranted by patient condition.
• Directs the provision of personalized, coordinated quality services responsive to changing health care trends.
• Coordinates and establishes nursing care practices; uses selected nursing practice theory as a framework for coordinating patient care and by providing theory-based nursing practice information in unusual or complex patient care situations. Works with direct leader to formulate plan for professional development.
• Attends educational in-services as appropriate. Participates in professional activities and organizations to maintain knowledge of current trends, practices, and developments. Maintains records on departmental personnel activities and processes.
• Uses information systems to retrieve, implement, and retain essential records and services.
• Maintains integrity and confidentiality of management and clinical information. Actively participates in ongoing or ad hoc committees or task forces to identify and resolve patient care issues.
• Directs development of priority competencies (technical skills, critical thinking, human relations skills) for each type of staff on selected areas within a clinical service line. Supports clinical research and conducts or participates in studies to improve clinical, educational and organizational performance within the clinical service line.
• Performs other related duties as required.

 

Minimum Qualifications:

 

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
•  Master's degree preferred
• Must have a valid, active unencumbered nursing license or temporary permit approved by the Georgia Licensing Board.
• Five years of experience which includes three years of clinical nursing and 2 years of nursing leadership.
• National certification in clinical specialty or nursing administration must be obtained within 12 months of hire.
• BLS required.
• Some assignments in this classification may require ACLS and Healthcare Provider certifications.

 

JOIN OUR TEAM TODAY! Emory Healthcare (EHC), part of Emory University (EUV), is the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia and the first and only in Georgia with a Magnet® designated ambulatory practice. We are made up of 11 hospitals-4 Magnet® designated, the Emory Clinic, and more than 425 provider locations. The Emory Healthcare Network, established in 2011, is the largest clinically integrated network in Georgia, with more than 3,450 physicians concentrating in 70 different subspecialties. 

 

Additional Details

Emory is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.

 

Emory Healthcare is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. Please contact Emory Healthcare’s Human Resources at [email protected]. Please note that one week's advance notice is preferred.

 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS (Medium): 20-50 lbs; 0-33% of the work day (occasionally); 11-25 lbs, 34-66% of the workday (frequently); 01-10 lbs, 67-100% of the workday (constantly); Lifting 50 lbs max; Carrying of objects up to 25 lbs; Occasional to frequent standing & walking, Occasional sitting, Close eye work (computers, typing, reading, writing), Physical demands may vary depending on assigned work area and work tasks. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS: Factors affecting environment conditions may vary depending on the assigned work area and tasks. Environmental exposures include but are not limited to: Blood-borne pathogen exposure Bio-hazardous waste Chemicals/gases/fumes/vapors Communicable diseases Electrical shock, Floor Surfaces, Hot/Cold Temperatures, Indoor/Outdoor conditions, Latex, Lighting, Patient care/handling injuries, Radiation, Shift work, Travel may be required. Use of personal protective equipment, including respirators, environmental conditions may vary depending on assigned work area and work tasks.