Manager - Registered Nurse - Long Term Care

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Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you'll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

Department: Long Term Care

Schedule: Full Time

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PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensures compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements.

• Assigns, directs, educates and monitors nursing and support staff during assigned shift. Serves as a resource to staff.

• Conducts hiring, training, directing, development and evaluating staff.

• Identifies and resolves issues affecting the delivery of resident care services for the assigned unit(s). Contributes to and implements policies and procedures to guarantee efficient and effective delivery of health services in a unit.

• Managers resident flow within assigned unit. Responds to all resident concerns and manages through established channels.

• Contributes to and may lead quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) programming for process improvement for assigned unit(s).

• Opens and leads incident command for internal and external emergency preparedness until relieved by assigned administrative representative.

• Monitors and adheres to budget. Approves or monitors expenditures, purchases and other actions to ensure compliance with budget guidelines.

• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing

EXPERIENCE

• Two years' registered nurse experience, with demonstrated progressive leadership responsibility OR one year of registered nurse experience plus one year of leadership experience 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.

• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.

• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.

• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.

• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.

• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.

• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.

• Rare climbing.

• Frequent Driving.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS   

State of Work Location:Illinois 

• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)

• And

• Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) 

State of Work Location:Missouri  

• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)

• And

  • Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration  

  • Or  

  • Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State  

State of Work Location:Oklahoma  

• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)

• And

  • Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State  

  • Or

  • Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)  

State of Work Location:Wisconsin 

• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)

• And

  • Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State  

  • Or  

  • Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services

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