Chief Nursing Officer

Overview

With a legacy that spans over 150 years, Bon Secours is a network dedicated to providing excellent care through exceptional people. At every level, everyone on our teams has embraced the call to provide compassionate care. Here, you can work with others who share common values, and use your skills to help extend care to all of our communities.

Chief Nursing Officer | Midlothian, VA
St. Francis Medical Center

This position is the acute care nursing leader under the direction of the facility administrator and Regional Chief Nurse Executive and, as such, is responsible for monitoring the standard for nursing practice and patient care. This position is responsible for the full scope of nursing services within the organization, leadership in planning, directing, coordinating, providing and improving patient care services consistent with hospital policies, objectives and standards for quality nursing care, and oversight of achieving financial and strategic objectives.

• Lead in a changing environment with focus on stabilization of daily operational issues while remaining in alignment with the Strategic Plan and using Best Practice principles and nursing research to promote professional nursing practice connecting the continuum of care.
• 24-hour responsibility and accountability for the delivery of professional nursing care and the allocation of resources for the assigned areas of responsibility and overall nursing care delivery.
• Achievement of clinical outcomes, productivity/outcomes measures, and adherence to nursing practice standards.
• Implement quality improvement plans, which are unit specific and achieve continuous improvements using measurable monitoring tools and processes.
• Cultivating and perpetuating a culture that embraces and exemplifies nursing professional practice and leadership excellence.
• Fiscally accountable to design and achieve budget through cost reductions and revenue enhancements; initiate proactive interventions that achieve continuity of care across the continuum.
• Create quality initiatives that support competency of resources, safe environment, regulatory expectations and a reduction of risks with unique plans for all areas of nursing practice; knowledgeable of all regulatory expectations and achieve regulatory compliance for nursing.
• Develop manpower plans based on objective data; initiate standardization of safe staffing plans; minimize risk management vulnerabilities. Required to understand the complexities of union environments.
• Collaborate with finance and site leadership to design and achieve budget-revenue targets.
• Advance the practice of nursing by implementing best practice interventions; use data measures to improve clinical outcomes for groups of targeted patient populations; support and use nursing research; implement structures and processes for caregivers to influence improvements in their practice.

• BSN required / MSN preferred
• OH RN license or eligible to transfer
• 5+ years related experience including 3-5 years’ management and/or leading others.
• Experience with the complexities of managing in a non-union environment is preferred; with labor relations experience and union avoidance strategies.

• Competitive pay, incentives, referral bonuses and 403(b) with employer contributions (when eligible)
• Medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, HSA/FSA options, life insurance, mental health resources and discounts
• Paid time off, parental and FMLA leave, short- and long-term disability, backup care for children and elders
• Tuition assistance, professional development and continuing education support

Benefits may vary based on the market and employment status.

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