Nurse Manager, Urology - Full-Time, Days

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, research, reports and evaluation.
• Promotes safety of patients and personnel by compliance with institution and regulatory agency standards and policies. Defines and organizes quality improvement initiatives.
• Assists in providing patient care and obtaining necessary documentation for a wide variety of research protocols.
• Participates in budget development, making recommendations regarding staffing, equipment, and supply issues.
• Monitors expenditures throughout the year, and takes required corrective action. Promotes cost containment programs.
• Demonstrates a cost conscious attitude toward time and resource usage.
• Assumes accountability for own nursing practice and professional growth.
• Acts as a role model to promote professional growth and clinical competence.
• Participates as appropriate in educational programs designed to promote professional growth and development, including planning, teaching and coordination of education programs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Currently licensed as a registered professional nurse in the State of Illinois.
• Five or more years nursing experience required.
• Demonstrated clinical and/or leadership skills that serve as a role model for subordinates. 
• Excellent organizational skills. 
• Computer proficiency. 
• Considerable skill in determining priorities, working independently, and exercising sound judgment.  
• High degree of initiative and problem-solving ability. 
• Considerable skill in communicating verbally and in writing. 
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure. 
• Maturity; ability to exercise judgment and assume responsibility. 
• Willingness to learn new systems and processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing, but experience may be considered in lieu of degree. 
• Ambulatory nursing experience.
• Two or more years of experience with surgical procedures.  
• Several years in a nursing leadership capacity preferred
• Familiarity with UCH Information Systems (Epic, Last Word, OACIS). 

Position Details

• Job Type/FTE: Full-Time (1.0 FTE)
• Shift: Days – 8-hour shifts, 8 am - 5 pm, flexibility required depending on clinic needs
• Work Location: Onsite - DCAM - Hyde Park
• Unit/Department: Urology Clinic
• CBA Code: Non-Union