Director Nursing

Director Nursing – Novant Health

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• Direct and coordinate appropriate resources for all daily operations, human resource management, fiscal management and strategic planning for designated services to assure the delivery of quality services while supporting the organizational mission, vision, values and goals.
• General Management:
  Directs and evaluates any and all management operations related to movement of patients from Admission to Discharge. Reviews results and recommends actions in coordination with corporate goals. Presents to leadership outcomes and plans for continued growth and improvement. Exercises extreme discretion in review of all records and information to ensure confidentiality of all matters. Participates with leaders from the Governing Body, Senior Leadership, Medical Staff and clinical areas in health system’s decision-making structures and processes.
  
  Participates in developing and implementing the system’s plan for providing patient care consistent with the system’s mission, goals, values and strategic plan. Participates with leaders from the governing body, senior leadership, medical staff and clinical areas in planning, promoting and conducting organization-wide performance assessment and improvement activities.
• Leadership:
  Acts with honesty and integrity with employees and customers, showing and speaking with respect for the rights of others, human dignity, local culture and Novant’s mission, vision, and values. Assures staff competency. Seeks input of staff in decision making. Facilitates decision making within the area of responsibility. Effectively balances authority of office, knowledge, and personality/persuasive power in executing role. Trusts others to act when aim is shared and appropriate.
  
  Acts with confidence. Demonstrates skillful leadership, defined by: leading and participating in teams, coaching and mentoring of direct reports, timely and appropriate conflict resolution, effective and timely communications, timely decision making as evidenced by positive performance evaluation feedback from stakeholders (peers, staff, financial staff) in these areas. Participates effectively with the Administrative Team as evidenced by active involvement, timely preparation and follow‑up and honest, open communication.
  
  Serves as a positive role model as evidenced by professional demeanor, skillful written and oral communications, reinforcement of strong customer service to staff and ethical judgment in problem solving. Participates in activities outside the facility which promote / provide community benefit as well as provide increased exposure for Hospital. Pursues continuing and / or formal education and maintains professional affiliations to further career development and understanding of the health care / business environment as evidenced by completed education and seminar hours and professional group participation.
• Business Acumen:
  Demonstrates ability to see the organization as a whole, recognizing the interdependence and connection between and among its various systems and processes. Thinks upstream and downstream. Anticipates and prepares for the future. Accepts minor set‑backs in pursuing goals. Implements organizational policy and procedure. Delegates responsibility for completion of the department’s core activities. Develops solid business plans for capital projects. Provides project/process consultation to staff.
• Clinical Oversight and Quality Improvement:
  Stabilizes and continually improves the core processes of the area of responsibility. Assures quality is monitored and opportunities for improvement are identified, tested, and implemented as appropriate. Manages the interdependence of processes both within and external to the department. Communicates the status of core processes of the area of responsibility and the system. Judges successes on qualitative as well as quantitative measures.
  
  Develops organization wide patient care programs, policies and procedures that describe how patients’ nursing care needs or patient populations receiving nursing care are assessed, evaluated and met.…