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Assistant Nurse Manager: NICU Akron

LOCATION: Akron, Ohio

CATEGORY: nursing

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Overview

At Akron Children’s, careers in nursing feel different. You make an impact on a daily basis, face-to-face, on children and their families. You do much more than treat patients. As the individual your patients come to recognize, rely on and smile at, you go beyond the title of nurse. Because this is more than a job. It’s what you were meant to do.

Success Profile

What makes a successful nurse at Akron Children's? Check out the top traits we’re looking for and see if you have the right mix.

  • Compassionate
  • Helpful
  • Personable
  • Positive
  • Sincere
  • Understanding

Job Description

Job Requisition Number 24431

Full-time, 40 hours/week

7pm-7:30am

Hybrid
NICU, PICU, Special Care Nursery experience preferred.


Summary:

The Assistant Nurse Manager assists the Nurse Manager with assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating delivery of patient care on assigned units on 24-hour basis.

Responsibilities:

  1. Adds value as a key member of management; understands the business, financials, industry, customers and strategy.
  2. Supervises employees, provides direction, coaches, trains, develops, and manages performance to company goals and expectations.
  3. Prepares, manages, and adheres to department budget to maintain expenditure controls.
  4. Assists Nurse Manager in maintaining operational aspects of the patient care unit in collaboration with support services.
  5. Assists Nurse Manager in contributing to nursing and the Hospital through support of philosophy, objectives, educational efforts, and research efforts.
  6. Other duties as required.

Other information:
Technical Expertise

  1. Experience in clinical pediatrics is required; clinical experience in assigned area is preferred
  2. Demonstrates positive interpersonal relationships which enhance communication, promote conflict resolution and facilitate staff development.
  3. Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required. Epic software or similar EMR software is required.

Education and Experience
  1. Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing [BSN] is required; Master’s degree [MSN] is preferred.
  2. Certification: Registered Nurse licensure is required. • Current Health Care Provider BLS training from the American Heart Association is required. • If assigned to general care units, PEARS is required. • If assigned to critical care units, PALS, ACLS, TNCC, and/or NRP is required. • If assigned to ED, Surgical Services, Sedation Services, Transitional Care/Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, and Transport, within 1 year of date of hire PALS, ACLS, TNCC, and/or NRP is required.
  3. Years of relevant experience: 5 to 7 years is preferred.
  4. Years of experience supervising: 3 to 5 years is preferred.

Full Time

FTE: 1.000000


Status: Fixed Hybrid


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Grow Your Career with Akron Children’s

Here at Akron Children's, we offer many ways for our nurses to succeed and grow professionally. There are multiple ways to grow your nursing career into areas such as leadership, education/professional development, advanced practice, informatics, research, quality, and more.

Benefits

Benefits for Akron Children’s team members go far beyond their compensation. Our comprehensive benefits program offers coverage, connections and resources that enable you to live your best life while growing your career.

  • Nurse Residency
    Program

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  • Career
    Development

  • Ascend
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  • Awards and
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Our Promises

  • To treat every child as we would our own.

  • To treat others as they would like to be treated.

  • To turn no child away.

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