Nursing Administrator, Manager - Wellstar Medical Group Musculoskeletal Clinics

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Work Shift
Day (United States of America)

Job Summary:

The Nursing Administrator Manager is a registered professional nurse who provides clinical leadership, guidance, and support to nursing and clinical team members, including Registered Nurses (RNs), Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), and Certified Medical Assistants (CMAs), across multiple Wellstar Medical Group (WMG) practices and service lines. As a member of the WMG Nursing Administration leadership team, this role partners with physicians, operational leaders, and clinical staff to advance patient safety, quality outcomes, regulatory compliance, and clinical excellence throughout the ambulatory care setting.
The Nursing Administrator Manager reports directly to the Director of Nursing, Wellstar Medical Group (WMG), and serves as a member of the WMG Nursing Administration leadership team. In partnership with the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), physicians, operational leaders, and clinical staff, this leader advances patient safety, quality outcomes, clinical excellence, and operational effectiveness across assigned practices and specialties.
The Nursing Administrator Manager is accountable for ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care through effective leadership, clinical oversight, workforce development, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. As a clinical standard bearer, this leader fosters an environment that supports professional growth, exceptional patient experiences, and adherence to organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and nursing standards of practice.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Exemplary Practice and Outcomes
* Promotes staff competency in clinical care delivery
* Leads clinical policy development and workflow standardization to support practice at the top of licensure
* Supports system and WMG patient safety and quality/value initiatives by working with Manager Regional RNs and physician leadership to implement in practices
* Serves as a clinical staff safety advocate; to promote a safe practice environment for all clinicians
* Holds self and staff to the highest professional standards. Is an active member of ones professional community and serves as a role model for professional nursing practice and nursing leadership, possesses hiring skills and supports effective orientation and onboarding of new staff, advances the field through transformational leadership and scholarly activity.
* Successfully employs change management strategies and instills in self and others the curiosity to explore new knowledge and ideas. Possesses skill and exercises necessary respect while leading a varied generational and diverse leadership team and workforce.
Collaboration and Partnership
* Works collaboratively and as a team member with medical group leadership. Partners with Human Resources to achieve desired organizational culture, staffing and workforce metrics.
* Fosters positive working relationships between staff and physicians across the Health System
* Fosters a culture that focuses on patient satisfaction, safety, customer service, staff participation, collaboration, motivation, and effective communication
Evidence Based Practice and Research
* Promotes evidence based practice, nursing research and performance improvement in nursing
* Partners with physicians and operational leaders in the analysis and decision making process in the evaluation and implementation of new patient care products and services
* Effectively identifies areas of risk and proactively works to ensure compliance and safety standards. This includes assuring service meets or exceeds licensure, regulatory and accreditation standards.
* Applies the effective use of data and evidence to support decision making for safe and ethical patient care, and demonstrates awareness of legal and ethical issues related to patient and staff data, information and confidentiality
Learning and Professional Development
* Creates opportunities for self, Manager Regional RNs, and clinical staff to grow professionally
* Develops and supports ongoing learning needs for clinical support staff; coordinate efforts with Organizational Learning to support annual and new hire clinical competency requirements for clinical staff
* Represents the organization positively to the community, building credibility and willingness to serve on committees and task forces as needed to share knowledge and skill; champion a service line or need; and seeks opportunities to advance skill and scope of responsibilities
Resources and Support
* Engages staff in decision-making via shared governance processes, and partners with others to promote relationship-based care delivery systems that support patient centered care and service excellence, while effectively providing nursing leadership for specific practices/service line(s). Possesses and uses good negotiation and mediation skills.
* Analyzes and manages financial resources; uses lean and other quality skills to reduce waste and improve performance of clinical systems of care; integrates marketing and communication strategies to advance ones practices/service line and organization as a whole
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Required Minimum Education:

- Bachelors Nursing or Masters Nursing-Preferred

Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s):

All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.
- RN - Reg Nurse (Single State) or RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact
- BLS - Basic Life Support or ARC-BLS - Amer Red Cross Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor

Additional License(s) and Certification(s):

Required Minimum Experience:

Minimum 5 years of experience if an associate nursing degree. Must complete Bachelor of Nursing within three years of position start date. Required and
Minimum 2 years of progressive experience in a managerial role in other care setting Required or
Minimum 2 years of progressive experience in a clinical supervisory or managerial role in the ambulatory care setting Required

Required Minimum Skills:

Should possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and relationship building; ability to present in groups, lead and organize meetings; leadership that includes such skills as successfully implementing and managing a change process ability to use systems thinking - and inspire, coach others to be successful; model the way for professional practice; and professionalism and teamwork/collaboration for self/department/medical staff. High
Must be a continuous learner who supports shared governance/shared decision making; manage the design and delivery of care that is based on evidence and focused on quality and safety. High
Knowledge of risk management and various accreditation/regulations/licensing requirements assuring that these are upheld while advancing industry standards through the achievement of goals by effective management and measurement of outcomes. High
EHR experience as well as proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite products. High

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