Title: Nurse Manager – LTAC
Position Summary:
The Nurse Manager is responsible for day-to-day coordination of nursing care and services on his/her designated shift including but not limited to staffing and scheduling, monitoring quality of care, collection of quality data, staff development, performance management and budget compliance.
Qualifications:
· Required:
o Current RN license in Michigan
o One to three years clinical experience in an LTAC, ICU or stepdown unit with ventilator patients
· Preferred:
o Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
o One year of leadership experience as a charge nurse or supervisor
Responsibilities:
· Assures that care is provided consistent with standards of care, manages the environment to maintain patient safety, and supervises the patient care provided by nursing personnel.
· Maintains staff accountability for clinical and customer service standards at all times. Addresses non-compliance with policy, procedure, and standards of practice and behavior with staff in a respectful and professional manner when non-compliance is observed.
- Coordinates care on designated shift including creating patient assignments, facilitating admissions, and assuring adequate staff for patient acuity.
- Develops staff schedule in accordance with projected patient census and acuity mix.
· Assure adequate staffing; determine staffing levels needed for census. Makes real-time adjustments to staffing to address absences or census acuity fluctuations.
· Participates in selection and onboarding of staff to support target staffing levels.
- Orients new nursing staff to the facility, completes required documentation for the employee file.
- Provides ongoing educational offerings for facility staff based on high risk/high volume/problem-prone processes, quality initiatives, new services.
- Shared responsibility for employee engagement recruitment and retention.
- Identifies and addresses issues and conflicts that impact patient care processes, affect customer satisfaction, or have ethical/legal ramifications. Brings issues to the attention of the CNO for definitive resolution.
- Mentors care team members in the areas of conflict resolution, problem- solving, and customer relations.
- Attends wound care rounds, assures that wound assessments are documented consistently, and that the plan of care for wound management is implemented.
· Supports the QAPI Process, including completing data collection, coaching staff, supporting action plans, report preparation and data submission.
- Promotes hospital standards of care, policies and procedures.
- Ensures all regulatory requirements are met.
· Ensure the facility is well stocked with supplies, including medications and equipment.
- Provides direct nursing care to patients with critical and complex medical and surgical conditions (24-36 hours weekly). Time allocated for administrative duties on a regular and scheduled basis.
· Other duties as assigned.
Skills Required
- Current Registered Nurse license in Michigan
- One to three years of clinical experience in an LTAC, ICU, or stepdown unit with ventilator patients
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing
- One year of leadership experience as a charge nurse or supervisor
What We Do
The first privately owned Long-term Acute Care hospital in Michigan, located within McLaren Oakland Hospital. Mission: To provide quality, compassionate cost-effective care to the medically-complex patient to optimize their physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. Description What are long-term acute care hospitals? Long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) are facilities that specialize in the treatment of patients with serious medical conditions that require care on an ongoing basis but no longer require intensive care or extensive diagnostic procedures. These patients are typically discharged from the intensive care units and require more care than they can receive in a rehabilitation center, skilled nursing facility, or at home. Where are LTACHs located? LTACHs often are housed within the walls of an acute care hospital but function independently. LTACHs must be licensed independently and have their own governing body. LTACHs may also exist as a stand-alone facility. What are the benefits of LTACHs? Because LTACHs are able to focus their energy and resources at a limited number of specialized treatments with minimal overhead, they are able to provide more cost-effective care than if these same patients were kept in acute care facilities. What types of patients are seen in LTACHs? Under Medicare, the patient must need more than 25 days of hospitalization. The average length of stay of a person in an LTACH is approximately 30 days. The types of patients typically seen in LTACHs include those requiring: ■ Prolonged ventilator use or weaning ■ Ongoing dialysis for chronic renal failure ■ Intensive respiratory care ■ Multiple IV medications or transfusions ■ Complex wound care/care for burns



