Chief Nursing Officer - CNO - Adult Services

The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) has accountability for daily operations, ensuring that nursing care performance at the facility level meets the quality, safety and financial targets established by the system. The CNO leads facility-wide professional nursing care, in alignment with the American Nurses Association’s
* Standards of Practice and Professional Performance*, the
* Code of Ethics for Nurses
* and the
* Social Policy Statement
* in the pursuit, attainment and maintenance of Magnet Recognition Program.
** Essential Responsibilities**:
* Human Resources Management*—Participate in workforce planning and employment decisions, analyze supply and demand market data, contribute to the development of compensation, recruitment, onboarding, retention, reward and recognition strategies.
* Ensure development and implementation of an outcome-based performance management program.
* Ensure development of educational programs to foster workforce competencies, development goals, and re-educate the workforce for future new roles.
* Evaluate the results of employee engagement and quality of work environment surveys.
* Formulate programs to enhance work-life balance and healthful work environments, and to address sexual harassment, workplace violence, and verbal and physical abuse.
* Facilitate staff education on risk management and compliance issues.
* Correct areas of potential liability.
* Ensure compliance by staff with all required standards.
* Use knowledge of classic and contemporary systems thinking in problem solving and decision making.
* Promote systems thinking as an expectation of leaders and staff.
* Consider the impact of nursing decisions on the healthcare facility as a whole.
* Participate in and contribute to professional organizations and contribute to the advancement of the profession.
* Encourage leader and staff participation in professional organizations, lifelong learning and educational achievement.
* Role model standards of professional practice (clinical, educational and leadership) for colleagues and constituents.
* 10 to 12 years of progressive leadership experience in multiple types of health care organizations and/or health care systems.
* 5 years in a senior leadership role in one or more of the areas that are under the direction of this position, preferably in a large, academic health care system.
* Work experience in a multi-hospital system or integrated delivery system.
* Broad based knowledge of the full scope of operations in an accredited academic medical center or primary teaching hospital of comparable size and scope to OU Health.
* Additional experience in a leadership role in ambulatory care and a physician practice.
* Experience working with and/or reporting to Governing Boards.
* Academic teaching and/or research experience.###
** OU Health is the state’s only comprehensive academic health system of hospitals, clinics and centers of excellence. With 11,000 employees and more than 1,300 physicians and advanced practice providers, OU Health is home to Oklahoma’s largest doctor network with a complete range of specialty care. OU Health serves Oklahoma and the region with the state’s only freestanding children’s hospital, the only National Cancer Institute-Designated OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center, Oklahoma’s flagship hospital, which serves as the state’s only Level 1 trauma center and Edmond Medical Center in the heart of the Edmond Community.

Becker’s Hospital Review named University of Oklahoma Medical Center one of the 100 Great Hospitals in America for 2020. OU Health’s oncology program at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center was named Oklahoma’s top facility for cancer care by U.S. News & World Report in its 2020-21 rankings. OU Health also was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as high performing in these specialties:
Colon Surgery, COPD and Congestive Heart Failure. OU Health’s mission is to lead healthcare in patient care, education and research.**###
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