Clinical Nurse Manager - Cooper University Hospital

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Overview

The Clinical Decision Unit is on the first floor of the Kelemen building. We are a locked unit and require a badge to enter or ring the doorbell to be let in.

We are a 20-bed, single-room unit with the capacity to have 2 hallway bed areas with privacy curtains. The patients are typically here for observation or if needed to be admitted as an inpatient they will stay in CDU until a floor bed is available. A new expansion of the CDU is underway. There are 15 more rooms currently being built to increase the size of the CDU from 20 beds to 35, with hallway capacity also.

Multidisciplinary rounds are done Monday – Friday. This involves the patient in their care and allows the team members to collaborate with the patient to give them the best possible care and appropriate discharge to home or other facilities.

The Express Admit Unit (EXAU) is under the management of the CDU. There are 6-bed areas where the admitted patients stay until a floor bed is available. This gives them privacy and care while waiting for their room to be available.

Both CDU and EXAU can have patients on telemetry for cardiac monitoring.

Short Description

 The Clinical Nurse Manager will provide the knowledge, skill, and expertise necessary to successfully support the daily operations of the clinical unit while supporting unit alignment with organizational mission, vision, and goals.The Clinical Nurse Manager will be responsible to:Support and maintain successful unit-based throughput efforts through the facilitation of appropriate and timely bed assignments resulting in fair, safe, and balanced clinical workloads for all clinical team members. Ensure that all available resources are utilized in an efficient, effective, fiscally responsible manner that supports the delivery of safe, high-quality care to all patients.Identify, implement, and support the deployment of evidence-based interventions designed to maximize successful input, throughput and output related processes.Support staff engagement by serving the unit in a consistent, supportive, compassionate, and nurturing manner.Facilitate the successful and appropriate allocation of clinical resources through preemptive planning while also demonstrating the ability to execute safe and clinically appropriate strategies to address urgent and emergent clinical needs. Serve as a role model/mentor empowering all clinical staff to identify innovative solutions to address patient needs while ensuring all clinical staff receive the support needed to practice in alignment with the full scope of their clinical role. Support and empower the clinical team in the implementation of successful evidence-based practice changes in effort to address opportunities for improvement that are identified through quality, process, and performance improvement efforts. Ensures the delivery of quality patient care through the coordination of organizational priorities at the direction of the Clinical Director . Assists the Clinical Director in coordinating interdepartmental and ancillary activities to ensure quality, cost-effective patient care. Lead the collaboration of inter-professional care teams to achieve successful clinical outcomes for all patients.Identify and support the elements of improved care quality including, improvements in nursing sensitive care quality indicators (NDNQI), effective care coordination, mitigation of gaps /omissions in care, prevention of potential errors from reaching the bedside.

Education Requirements

Education: Graduate of NLN accredited School of Nursing 

License/Certification Requirements

License/Certifications/Registration: Current NJ-RN License (Registered Nurse); Current American Heart Association BLS Certification (Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers); certain specialties may require advanced certification (i.e. ACLS, NALS, PALS)