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$25,000 Sign-On bonus for experienced Registered Nurse / RN

Fountain Valley Regional Hospital is proud of the full range of quality services we provide. Since 1971, we have dedicated our efforts to meet and serve the medical needs of our growing community. We were the first hospital in Orange County to offer residents an accredited Chest Pain Center and a Thrombectomy Receiving Center certified by The Joint Commission. We are one of only two certified Pediatric ICUs in Orange County and the only hospital in Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach with a Level III Neonatal ICU. We�re proud of the efforts of our physicians, nurses and staff who strive to provide you with the best care possible.

We offer competitive salaries and benefits including a matching 401(k), several health & dental plans to choose from, generous tuition assistance plans, and relocation assistance for select positions.

Position Summary:

The manager has a 24-hour, 7 day a week responsibility to provide leadership, management, administration and supervision for the cost center(s). This includes planning, organizing, staff development, performance management, quality fiscal and information management, regulatory compliance, daily operations, building and enhancing relationships through customer relations and appropriate professional involvement. The manager is accountable for the management of the cost center(s) within the established budget. The manager will work closely with directors, ancillary staff, managers, medical directors, medical department chairs, physicians and other disciplines to develop services and ensure quality. Manager will have access to all pertinent patient health information.

Essential Duties:

• Provides leadership to the staff related to care of the specific patient population/department and associated administrative management
• Demonstrates knowledge of growth, development and problem solves
• Understands range of treatment needed as appropriate to the ages of the patients served
• Ensures standards of care and policies and procedures are current, evidence based, appropriate and are reviewed with all department staff
• Develops short and long term goals, actions plans, objectives and initiatives and present to department director to ensure alignment with both departmental and organizational goals. Effectively executes goals, action plans, objectives and initiatives
• Ensures departmental action plans meet departmental and organizational goals
• Ensures regulatory compliance
• Submits, updates and ensures adherence with budget
• Attends leadership meetings and serves on hospital/departmental committees
• Ensures compliance with labor benchmarks of department specific units of service
• Performs scheduling, time card adherence and submits pay period productivity variance reports identifying rationale for variance and follow up actions to correct
• Controls and monitors supply costs to achieve flexed budgeted costs
• Reviews statistical analysis information and corrects
• Identifies and implements cost savings through labor and supply utilization efficiencies
• Ensures sound staffing, anticipates and forecasts personnel needed, maintains staffing plan consistent with departments productivity benchmark, active in recruiting, interviewing, hiring and training
• Maintains individual patient classification system which predicts nursing care requirements by shift and maintains documentation to discern trends and patterns of nursing care delivery by shift and staff mix
• Ensures performance evaluations are completed on time and criteria-based job performance standards, and applicable competencies, are current with each staff member
• Assesses and implements staff development, recognition and cross-training
• Collaborates with coordination of hospital orientation, interviewing, mandatory continuing education programs and department specific orientation of all department staff
• Provides feedback and effective counseling to staff in a timely manner
• Maintains personal knowledge and expertise in department specific area
• Supports other departments within the facility and maintains good rapport
• Ensures a routine mode of communication with staff on a regular basis
• Communicates self or staff concerns or problems through proper verbal or written channels
• Ensures hospital mission, vision and values are maintained and upheld
• Demonstrates effective and responsible relationships with patients, families, medical directors, physicians, employees, management, administration and related outside agencies
• Ensures timely follow up of patient, family, staff and physician concerns
• Identifies and executes ways to increase quality, service and satisfaction to increase PSMS scores
• Achieves measurable improvements in key quality initiatives
• Other duties as assigned by department director

Required:

• Current California RN license, or the ability to obtain California RN license before start date.
• BLS, ACLS, PALS
• BSN
• Three (3) years clinical experience
• At least two (2) years in a healthcare leadership role
• Current American Heart Association BLS Certification (maintained current at all times)
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Demonstrated experience in leading patient experience initiatives.
• Effective verbal, written and listening skills
• Ability to independently manage priorities
• Current knowledge of the field with evidence of ongoing continued education
• Proficiency in multiple standard healthcare computer programs (e.g., CERNER, KRONOS, etc.)
• WCC & HBO Certified (for Wound Care Nursing Manager only)

The hospital, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to combine any of the above required experiences, or to consider applicants other work related experience in order to meet the above mentioned requirements.

Preferred:

Masters preferred

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Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant�s or employee�s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.