CNO Lake Wales Hospital

Responsibilities

• Promotes system thinking as a value in the nursing organization. Considers the impact of nursing decisions on the healthcare organization as a whole.
• Provides leadership in building loyalty and commitment throughout the organization. Synthesizes and integrates divergent viewpoints for the good of the organization.
• Promotes nursing management as a desirable specialty and assures there is a succession plan for own position. Actively mentors others into the leadership role.
• Participates in workforce planning and employment decisions, champions a diverse workforce, interprets and evaluates employee satisfaction/quality of work surveys taking action as needed to assure a positive outcome.
• Identifies clinical and leadership skills necessary for performing job-related tasks. Selects top talent, assesses job candidate skills, and matches organizational needs with appropriate skill sets. Identifies future skill sets needed to remain competitive.
• Analyzes market data in relation to supply and demand and manages resources to assure appropriate compensation. Develops and implements recruitment and retention strategies in partnership with Human Resources.
• Acts as a change agent, utilizing change theory to plan for the implementation of organizational change, supports staff during the change, and adapts leadership style to the situations of the change.

• Serves as a role model for the mission and values held by Advent Health and the nursing profession. Ensures both are embedded in the planning and delivery of patient care services.
• Creates an environment in which others are setting expectations and holding each other accountable.
• Creates an environment in which professional and personal growth is an expectation.
• Integrates high ethical standards and core values into everyday work activities.
• Teaches and mentors others to routinely utilize evidence-based data and results.
• Advocates the perspective that patient care is the core of the organization’s work.
• Ensures that nurses are actively involved in decisions that affect their practice.
• Participates in at least one professional organization and supports/encourages others to participate in a professional organization.

• Creates an environment that recognizes and values differences in staff, physicians, patients, and communities through championing diversity and cultural competency in the organization.
• Practices shared decision making in order to build collaborative relationships
• Builds trusting relationships with staff, peers, other disciplines and ancillary services, Physicians, vendors, community leaders, legislators, and academic providers.
• Actively involved in community and academic relations and is an advocate for positive medical staff relationships.

• Produces cogent and persuasive written materials and verbal presentations to address nursing, health care, and organizational issues appropriate to the audience.
• Maintains credibility when communicating adverse news, follows through on promises and concerns, provides service recovery to dissatisfied customers, cares about people as individuals and demonstrates empathy and concern while assuring that the organizational goals are met, accomplishes objectives through persuasion, celebrates successes and accomplishments, and communicates a shared vision for the organization.

• Acts as a change agent when patient care work/workflow is redesigned and determines the appropriateness of new delivery models which are instituted.
• Utilizes, interprets, and disseminates evidence-based practice and outcome measures in the delivery of patient care.
• Participates in utilization management, case management, quality improvement, and risk management functions of the organization to assure the quality of care delivered in the organization is appropriate for the patient population served.
• Applies broad knowledge of healthcare economics, including federal and state payment systems and regulation, as well as private insurance issues, payor mix, and benchmark data.
• Provide strategic oversight and guidance for the facility’s patient and workforce safety, ensuring clear goals,…