Manager Radiology Nurse Services

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. Our team’s efforts have led to the creation of many research programs and initiatives to develop advanced treatments found nowhere else in the world. In our commitment to advancing standards in an ever-evolving healthcare environment, our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care, research, and education. Our strong alliance with Texas Heart® Institute and Baylor College of Medicine allows us to bring our patients a powerful network of care unlike any other. Our collaboration is focused on increasing access to care through a growing network of leading specialists and revolutionizing healthcare to save lives and improve the health of the communities we serve.

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The Manager of Radiology will have 24 hour accountability for a unit area. The major responsibilities are in providing leadership and communication, monitoring the work environment, assuring quality, managing the fiscal budget, managing human resources and ensuring the delivery of competent clinical practice.

The Manager of Radiology Services will be Accountable and have authority for developing, implementing, and evaluating outcome management programs for the defined patient population. Utilizes various skills to educate, consult and assist the patient care team in achieving the highest quality and best possible outcome for the patient cost-effectively. Collaborates with a patient care team, which includes but is not limited to physicians, Radiology and nursing staff, business and financial services, utilization management, and quality management; Utilizes a scientific approach in the analysis of patient care, identifying opportunities for quality improvement and cost reduction based on current research findings supported in literature. Will also be responsible for overseeing and coordinating the workflow of the Radiology Nurses for inpatient and outpatient services.

Quality & Program management: Participates in unit, service and divisional CQI/CQE programs, documents results, reports by deadlines, formulates corrective action plans for improvement.

Meets established research-based standards of care, quality control targets, operationalizes CQI.

Develops a multidisciplinary program to monitor quality patient care indicators.

Adjusts staffing patterns according to unit activity and patient acuity.

Fiscal: Reviews fiscal Worksheet, analyzing variances and implementing appropriate action plans.

Develops and Manages the unit budget to control operational and capital expenditures for capital equipment priorities based on patient unit needs and according to budget policy.

Maintains fiscal budget within established variance, focusing on hppd, labor cost per day, overtime, orientation costs, SSP costs and medical supplies.

HR Management: Shared leadership in place with structured recruitment and retention and PEP/professional practice.

Facilitates professional growth and development of staff utilizing career development plans. Identifies staff career development and training needs. Uses CQI/CQE and staff input for development of educational programs.

Directs and Participates in the orientation of new employees, evaluates programs effecting employees.

Demonstrates accountability for human and material resource management with division guidelines and standards by monitoring, correcting variances for productive and non-productive utilization.

Staff is developed to assume leadership roles both formally and informally, via role modeling and facilitating staff participation in shared governance structure.