Clinical Nursing Director Endoscopy Tufts Medical Center

Clinical Nursing Director Endoscopy, Tufts Medical Center

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About Tufts Medical Center: Tufts Medical Center is a world‑renowned academic medical center that has been providing exceptional care across New England for over two centuries. Our clinicians are dedicated to delivering innovative, patient‑centered care every day, from primary care to a Level I Trauma Center to a leading heart transplant program and more than 100 specialties and services. As the principal teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine, we are also a leading research institution conducting game‑changing medical and health policy research.

Tufts Medical Center is seeking a Clinical Nursing Director who will report to the Executive Director of Perioperative Services and Endoscopy. The Director will have overall responsibility for planning, developing, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating nursing care, patient safety, clinical quality outcomes, evidence‑based practices, and professional development of nursing staff. The role collaborates across disciplines and departments to ensure procedures are well planned and services are fully integrated for a patient‑centered and safe approach to care.

The unit includes outpatient and inpatient GI procedures—upper endoscopy, colonoscopy, ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound, and bariatric procedures—and features three procedure rooms, two advanced procedure rooms, prep and recovery areas, and a manometry program.

• Massachusetts RN Licensure
• 7 years of RN experience, including at least 5 years of management experience
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Master’s Degree in Health Administration, Nursing, Business Administration, or a related field

• Initiates and manages change, ensuring appropriate support and resources for staff
• Creates opportunities for multidisciplinary forums to solve problems and facilitate planning
• Monitors and ensures excellence in the clinical practice of nursing and the delivery of patient care on the unit
• Integrates the nursing service philosophy into all unit practices and programs
• Keeps current with literature regarding changing practices, interventions, and research in patient care and health care delivery
• Utilizes a performance‑improvement process to assess the response to care from patients, families, and others
• Provides leadership in setting the direction of the unit and is responsive to changing internal and external factors
• Maintains open communication with managers of supporting departments to ensure appropriate service levels at all times
• Manages human, fiscal, and other resources needed to support clinical nursing practice and positive patient outcomes
• Develops quality‑driven and cost‑effective programs of care
• Monitors and critically analyzes unit resource utilization
• Collaborates with physicians, hospital administrators, and other relevant groups on methods of delivering care
• Ensures appropriate staffing plans to accommodate changing needs of the unit
• Applies knowledge of federal, state, hospital, unit, and accreditation agency standards, policies, and procedures to direct patient care
• Oversees operating and capital budgets; implements strategies to improve efficiency and reduce costs
• Creates and fosters a learning environment that facilitates the professional growth and development of staff
• Oversees written policies and procedures

• Ability to sit for extended periods
• Occasional lifting of 5‑15 lbs and turning patients
• Occasional twisting, bending, reaching, pushing/pulling, kneeling, and squatting

• Effective communication with patients, families, physicians, and the healthcare team
• Maintains and develops clinical knowledge, judgment, and skills
• Knowledge of and application of the nursing process
• Strong clinical and theoretical skills
• Proactive approach to challenges

This role focuses on providing professional and non‑professional nursing care services in accordance with physician orders, while also…