NHS Human Services, Inc.

Job Location: Choctaw Regional Medical Center

General Summary: The Emergency Department (ED) Manager primary responsibilities will include providing administrative oversight and direction for the Emergency Department and Trauma Services at Choctaw Regional Medical Center. The Emergency Department Manager will provide accountability for planning, directing, leading, and evaluating nursing care within the department. It is the policy of Choctaw Regional Medical Center, that the Emergency Department (ED) Manager that works in the Emergency Department will provide professional nursing care within the Emergency Department.

Essential Functions:

• Coordinate care with different disciplines, and provide care that reflects initiative, flexibility, and responsibility indicative of professional expectations with a minimum of supervision.
• Triage safely, rapidly, and accurately, every patient that enters the emergency care system.
• Determine priorities of care based on physical and psychosocial needs, as well as factors influencing patient flow through the system.
• Communicate with emergency department (ED) physicians about changes in patient's status, symptomatology, and results of diagnostic studies.
• Able to respond quickly and accurately to changes in condition or response to treatment.
• Be familiar with all equipment in the emergency department (ED).
• Responsible for keeping a record and reviewing of all admits, transfers, and trauma charts that come through the emergency department (ED).
• Participate in the Mississippi Trauma System and adhere to their policies.
• Enter trauma patients in the trauma registry monthly in accordance with the Mississippi Trauma System.
• Responsible for overseeing unit.
• Make and maintain the nurses schedule and ensure that all shifts are covered.
• Maintain a record of all cultures and send out labs that are ordered in the emergency department (ED) and follow through with care of those patients.
• Attend meetings as appropriate that involve the emergency department.
• Write policies and procedures to ensure efficiency and safe patient care of patients in the emergency department.
• Report fetal deaths and spontaneous abortions (within a certain time limit) to the state monthly.
• Coordinate with the county and regional level Emergency Medical Assistance (EMA) about the county wide annual disaster drill.