JOB TITLE: NURSE MANAGER 2

JOB CODE: 30450

SERIES NATURE OF WORK: The Nurse Manager series describes work in the management and coordination of nursing care and treatment of people at a Commonwealth facility.

DEFINITION: This is professional and administrative nursing work directing nursing services at a Commonwealth facility for people with a mental or physical injury, illness, or developmental disability. An employee in this job serves as a lead nurse manager at a Commonwealth facility specializing in forensic nursing care or as the assistant to the Nursing Director in the overall administration of nursing services at other Commonwealth facilities for people with a mental or physical injury, illness, or developmental disability. As a lead nurse manager at a Commonwealth facility specializing in forensic nursing care, the employee plans, directs, coordinates, and evaluates the administration of facility-wide nursing services, including health care and treatment, clinical nursing care, employee emergency health care coordination programs, and specialized functions such as infection control, quality assurance, improvement, risk management, emergency services, and in-service nursing care education. Employees plan, establish, administer, and maintain nursing care policies, standards, and procedures; coordinate nursing care and services with other facility discipline managers; and participate in the overall administration of the facility. Work involves supervising Nurse Manager 1, Registered Nurse Supervisor, and nursing direct care staff providing specialized nursing services such as nurse instruction, quality assurance, improvement, risk management, and infection control activities and emergency services. As the assistant to the Nursing Director at a Commonwealth facility, the employee plans, administers, and manages the psychiatric or medical nursing care and treatment provided in the facility and coordinates nursing programs with other facility disciplines in the development and implementation of comprehensive care and treatment programs through subordinate Nurse Managers and Registered Nurse Supervisors. The employee assists the Nursing Director in developing, implementing, and evaluating nursing policies, procedures, and standards. Work is performed independently under the direction of the facility administrator or Nursing Director and is reviewed through conferences, reports, and evaluation of results achieved for conformance to departmental and facility policies and procedures.

   DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISITICS:

     • This job is differentiated from the lower-level jobs by the responsibility for supervising Nurse Manager 1 positions.

EXAMPLES OF WORK: (NOTE: The examples of work are representative of the work, but every position classified to this job may not perform all examples of work listed. Conversely, this is not an all-inclusive list of work examples.)

• Serves as the lead nurse manager at a Commonwealth facility specializing in forensic nursing care.

• Serves as the assistant to the Nursing Director at Commonwealth facilities for people with a mental or physical injury, illness, or developmental disability.

• Plans, directs, administers, coordinates, and evaluates facility-wide nursing care and services, including care, treatment, and specialized services such as in-service nursing education and training, quality assurance, improvement, risk management, infection control, and the required employee examination, immunization, and emergency health care coordination programs.

• Assists the Nursing Director with planning, directing, coordinating, and evaluating nursing care and treatment.

• Develops, establishes, administers, and maintains policies, standards, and procedures pertaining to nursing care and services, or assists the Nursing Director in developing policies, standards, and procedures regulating nursing care, treatment services, and the continuity of care provided.

• Prepares, or assists the Nursing Director with planning and preparing nursing services budgets and proposals, including requests for equipment, supplies, and staff.

• Confers with multi-discipline program managers and the facility administrator, or multi-discipline supervisory staff and the Nursing Director, concerning the coordination and integration of nursing care and services with other disciplines.

• Provides consultation to semi-autonomous unit nursing staff, such as long-term care, mental health care, acute care, geriatric care, or forensic care on nursing practices and administrative services.

• Directs the planning, development, and implementation of in-service nursing education and training programs for professional and non-professional direct care staff.

• Participates in administrator staff meetings, facility conferences, and committee meetings of facility staff and professional and civic organizations.

• Provides direction for nursing care and treatment provided in the facility to ensure continuity of care; completion of required employee immunizations, examinations, and emergency health care coordination programs; and compliance with departmental and facility policies, accreditation, certification requirements and regulations, and professional nursing standards, practices, and procedures.

• Reviews staffing requirements for nursing care and services, evaluates effectiveness of staff utilization, and assigns and reassigns staff to maintain coverage and to meet objectives.

• Evaluates requests for training and continuing education and arranges for training of nursing services staff.

• Directs the preparation and maintenance of care plans, as well as employee medical records and reports concerning the facility's nursing care and treatment services and operations.

• Performs the full range of supervisory duties.

• Employees in this job may participate in the performance of their subordinates’ work consistent with operational or organizational requirements.

• Performs related work as required.

ENTRY LEVEL KNOWLEDGES, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Knowledge of professional nursing management, administration, and the educational principles and practices involved in the administration and operations of a nursing care and services program.

• Knowledge of current theories, practices, and developments in the field of professional nursing, including the therapeutic and adverse effects of pharmacology, psychopharmacology, and medical treatments.

• Knowledge of licensing, certification, and accreditation regulations and standards applicable to people being served.

• Knowledge of the principles and methodologies of quality management, inclusive of risk management, quality assurance, and quality improvement.

• Knowledge of the principles and practices involved in program planning, organization, management, and evaluation.

• Ability to coordinate nursing services with other disciplines within the facility.

• Ability to direct the instruction of professional and non-professional employees in professional nursing care and treatment principles, practices, and techniques.

• Ability to direct the establishment and maintenance of nursing care and services documentation, records, and reports.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.

• Ability to communicate effectively orally.

• Ability to communicate effectively in writing.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING: (NOTE: Based on the Entry Level Knowledges, Skills, and Abilities)

• Two years as a Nurse Manager 1 (commonwealth title) in a facility providing nursing care and services for people with a mental or physical injury, illness, or developmental disability;

or

• Eight years of professional nursing experience, including three years in a managerial capacity providing care and services for people with a mental or physical injury, illness, or developmental disability; and a bachelor's degree in nursing, nursing education, or nursing administration. A master's degree in nursing, nursing education, or nursing administration may be substituted for up to one year of the required general professional nursing work experience;

or

• An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes three years in a managerial capacity providing nursing care and services for people with a mental or physical injury, illness, or developmental disability.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• All positions require active authorization to practice as a Registered Nurse in Pennsylvania.

• All employees possessing an active temporary practice permit must obtain licensure as a Registered Nurse within the one (1) year period defined by the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing.