Director of Nursing

Description

The Director of Nursing is accountable for the effective delivery of competent, compassionate, and efficient care for specific patient care unit(s) on a 24-hour basis. This includes oversight for clinical operations and human resources, financial, and quality management.

• Develops work processes and systems to facilitate excellent patient care outcomes and patient, staff, and physician satisfaction.
• Facilitates communication and ensures proper flow of information.
• Oversees patient flow in patient care and support areas.
• Ensures operational effectiveness, emphasizing cost containment without jeopardizing patient care priorities, improvement, innovation or quality of care.
• Partners with service-wide leadership to interpret policies and operational procedures, resolving problems related to staffing, and utilization of facilities, equipment and supplies, as required.
• Investigates any patient care and/or administrative problems and keeps communication open with directors, managers, and staff to ensure high employee morale and a professional, safe patient care environment
• Ensures the effective delivery of competent, compassionate and efficient care by monitoring and evaluating patient care processes and outcomes
• Facilitates shared governance at the unit level and throughout Nursing Service.
• Represents Altus Community Healthcare in its relationships with other health organizations, professional organizations, government and accrediting agencies.
• Collaborates with leaders from local institutions of higher education to provide a supportive learning environment for students of various healthcare programs.
• Provides support to staff during the development, implementation, and utilization of information systems that impact the delivery of patient care services within the hospital.
• Identifies appropriate internal controls for department; provides mechanisms to monitor and enforce compliance.
• Participates in supplies inventory/management cost savings productivity.
• Works with leadership to enhance revenue production while decreasing cost and inefficiencies.
• Participates in supplies inventory/management/cost savings

• Provides leadership and direction for the staff
• Recruits and retains competent, compassionate staff while monitoring performance standards and promoting fair labor practices.
• Promotes a work environment that demonstrates caring by accessibility to safe equipment and adequate supplies.
• Achieves performance outcomes through engagement of the nursing staff.
• Leads by example implementing management techniques and practices that create an environment that attracts and retains nursing staff.
• Mentors staff and objectively evaluate and documents performance, taking corrective action as appropriate.
• Completes employee performance evaluations according to established timelines.
• Provides professional guidance to ensure the highest quality care is available to patients and appropriate standards of care that meet national, state, and local rules and regulations
• Provides and develops professional leadership at the unit level in the nursing organization.
• Encourages and supports staff development.
• Maintains professional affiliations and enhances professional development to keep current in the latest healthcare trends and developments.

• Operationalizes and participates in continuous quality improvement and risk management programs at the unit(s) level in a collaborative manner with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
• Monitors patient care operations, and related programs, initiating appropriate changes, where necessary.
• Responsible for nursing policy and practices, assuring their consistency with requirements specified by the Texas Nurse Practice Act and other legal and regulatory mandates.
• Supports quality related programs at the unit level, including but not limited to patient satisfaction with nursing, nurse satisfaction, the nursing aspects of the National Patient Safety Goals, other regulatory requirements for nursing / nurses, and the nursing aspects for specialty quality standards (e.g. critical care, disease management, etc.).
• Demonstrates…