Nurse Manager, Urology - Full-Time, Days

University of Chicago Medical Center | Urology | Full-Time | Day Shift Be a part of a world-class academic healthcare system, **UChicago Medicine**, as a **Nurse Manager** at our **DCAM** clinic. Here, you will work alongside our **Urology** clinic team. This position is a 100% onsite opportunity. You will need to be based in the greater Chicagoland area. Urologists at the University of Chicago Medicine provide treatment for a wide variety of urologic conditions in men and women. We believe in developing and using innovative and comprehensive treatments that safeguard your quality of life by preserving normal urinary and sexual function. Under the general direction of the Section Chief, the Physician Director for the practice, and/or the Director, responsible for administrative and patient care activities at the University of Chicago Hospitals. The nurse manager oversees day-to-operations, including scheduling, planning, organizing, and directing all activities related to patient centered care in the unit, and handles an array of administrative duties, including recruitment and hiring; supervision; purchasing; inventory; facility, safety and equipment management. Responsible for preparing for and participating in various inspections, including the JCAHO accreditation process. **Essential Job Functions** - Participates in the recruitment and selection of unit staff. Identifies recruitment needs and necessary staffing levels - Determines staffing needs in consultation with physician director and assures proper scheduling and utilization of services in maintaining quality patient care. - Assists staff members in identification of learning needs and promotes staff participation in professional and institutional activities. Participates in and promotes educational opportunities for staff. Encourages staff participation in designing and attending in-service classes. - Assesses patient acuity and plans appropriate assignments to meet patient needs for both inpatients and outpatients. - Evaluates staff performance on a formal and informal basis. Completes annual performance evaluations and forwards to appropriate individuals. Provides recommendations for merit increases. - Evaluates staff performance on a formal and informal basis. Completes annual performance evaluations and forwards to appropriate individuals. Provides recommendations for merit increases. Recognizes staff for performance, provides constructive criticisms and/or reprimands, commendations, suspensions, discharges, transfers, promotions or demotions. Handles difficult situations involving interpersonal relationships between staff and physicians, patients, families of patients, and other employees. Establishes priorities and assures implementation of goals and objectives, evaluating performance and reporting significant results. - Ensures that appropriate staff attend mandatory educational programs and in-services per JCAHO regulations. - Assists in testing and evaluating new equipment, procedures and programs. - Participates in periodic review of sectional activities needs assessment and development and prioritization of goals and objectives. Assists in the development and review of policies, procedures, and standards. - Confers with physicians and supervisors concerning the care and treatment of individual patients. Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates patient care on a daily basis. - Makes regular inspections to ascertain state of maintenance of the environment, including equipment, and takes required corrective action. - Confers with supervisory and administrative personnel concerning management problems. - Provides orientation and training of staff members in carrying out physicians' orders, seeing to the needs of patients, and developing approved nursing practices. - Evaluates and revises orientation plan as necessary. - Collaborates with medical director on quality assurance issues. Collaborates with medical director in collecting data for staff meetings, r…