Director of Nursing

Description

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.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• 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 transparency with the clinical staff regarding clinical indicators.

• Assists with the development of strategic plans for patient care services as a whole and specifically, for assigned areas of responsibility.
• Assists in the evaluation and documentation of goal achievements, issues and recommendations.

• Function as the facility’s pharmacy support personnel
• Work with the contracted pharmacist to ensure the appropriate ordering, formulary management, use of therapeutic drugs, and safeguarding of all medications used in the facility.
• Management of medication tracking and charting within the facility, in accordance with state law, and under the direction of the…