Nurse manager job duties:

☛ Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.

☛ Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.

☛ Maintains nursing operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.

☛ Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care; enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations; measuring health outcomes against standards; making or recommending adjustments.

☛ Maintains nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training nurses and auxiliary staff.

☛ Completes patient care requirements by scheduling and assigning nursing and staff; following up on work results.

☛ Maintains nursing staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.