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Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

Under general supervision and in collaboration with the director, provides leadership in the Emergency Department to ensure the quality of care and operational effectiveness of the designated shifts. Utilizes skills in assessing, planning, organizing, and evaluating the provision of patient care. Demonstrates system thinking, initiates improvement strategies, promotes employee development, and works collaboratively with physician partners. Adheres to the principles of Service Excellence Guiding Behaviors and the philosophy and mission of Mercy in all aspects of job performance.

Your best life. Our one purpose.

At MercyOne, we are dedicated to the well-being of both our colleagues and the patients they serve. Elevating patient-centered care comes from the efforts of all colleagues.

What we offer:

We care about your well-being, both physical and mental, which is why our benefit package includes:

• Wellness programs

• Education reimbursement

• Personalized health insurance plans including dental and vision

• Paid time off

• Long- and short-term leave

• Retirement planning

• Life insurance coverage

About the job:

Under general supervision and in collaboration with the director, provides leadership in the Emergency Department to ensure the quality of care and operational effectiveness of the designated shifts. Utilizes skills in assessing, planning, organizing, and evaluating the provision of patient care. Demonstrates system thinking, initiates improvement strategies, promotes employee development, and works collaboratively with physician partners. Adheres to the principles of Service Excellence Guiding Behaviors and the philosophy and mission of Mercy in all aspects of job performance.

What you will do:

• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide service/care appropriate to the age of the patients served, in accordance with Mercy standards.

• Provides leadership in the development, implementation and

• evaluation of unit/service goals and monitoring outcomes, in

• order to accomplish strategic objectives and support the mission.

• Promotes achievement of best practice in access, technology,

• service and coordination of information between providers/services.

• Makes decisions based on knowledge, experience and the ability to forecast using information management and relevant data.

• Shows mastery of job content, demonstrates skill and knowledge of individual profession and area of responsibility. Keeps current with new trends and developments and seeks out continuous education for management skills.

• Promotes practices to maintain an efficient and effective work force through staffing model development, recruitment, selection, training, and evaluation processes.

• Collaborates and fosters positive professional relations with medical staff.

• Recognizing patient needs and competencies of the staff, gives employees appropriately challenging assignments.

• Defines and communicates employee performance expectations. Assesses staff competency and actively participates in the planning and implementation of staff development processes and activities.

• Provides leadership and promotes staff involvement in continuous quality improvement activities. Conducts on-going quality management by identifying quality assurance issues and

• coordinating action and follow-up. Identifies problems, opportunities, threats and trends early and reports findings to the Clinical Manager.

• Ensures risk management principles and practices are implemented. Ensures staff adherence to standards and regulatory agency requirements.

• Practices participative management; shares responsibility and

• influence.

• Facilitates the development of working relationships which enhance team and individual performance to achieve best practice.

• Confronts others skillfully, applying policies consistently and

• fairly. Evaluates and disciplines employees as needed.

• Develops a network of contacts (internal and external), and works well with other departments/units as well as within the community. Builds cooperative working relationships.

What we are looking for:

• Is a Registered Nurse, maintaining a current Iowa license. B.S.N. required.

• Requires a minimum of two to three years relevant work experience. One to two years of management experience preferred.

• Must have ability to cope with frequent stress and is capable of successfully working through adversity.

Why MercyOne Western Iowa?

MercyOne Western Iowa serves the needs of individuals in a 33-county area including western Iowa, eastern Nebraska and southeastern South Dakota. MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center, a 238-bed regional facility, is home to the only Level II trauma center in the area – one of only four trauma care facilities in the state to receive verification from the American College of Surgeons – and MercyOne Air Med, a regional helicopter ambulance service. Along with owned and managed hospitals in Primghar and Hawarden, Iowa, and a partnership with Dunes Surgical Hospital in South Dakota, the region also operates a primary care network, specialty care clinics and home health care, providing an entire continuum of preventative, primary, acute and tertiary health care services to provide personalized, compassionate care for the communities we serve and beyond.

About MercyOne and Trinity Health

We are MercyOne: a connected system of health care facilities and services dedicated to helping you and your community live your best life so you can get well—and stay well. With 420 care locations, our clinics, medical centers and affiliates are never too far from home, allowing us to improve the lives of individuals and communities across the state of Iowa and beyond. MercyOne Western Iowa is a member of Trinity Health

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

Our Mission defines us:

MercyOne serves with fidelity to the Gospel as a compassionate, healing ministry of Jesus Christ to transform the health of our communities.

Our timeless Values guide us:

• Reverence

• Integrity

• Commitment to the Poor

• Compassion

• Excellence

• Justice

• Stewardship

MercyOne Cultural Beliefs direct us:

• Be ONE: I benefit from and strengthen MercyOne.

• Personalize Care: Your experience. My responsibility.

• Own It!: I own my actions to deliver our key results.

• Improve Daily: I make improvements every day for those we serve including each other.

• Innovate: I imagine and embrace bold new ideas to revolutionize health.

MercyOne Siouxland Medical Center and all its affiliates are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, physical disability or any other classification protected under local, state or federal law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran