Director of Nursing - Acute Care and Dialysis

Director of Nursing - Acute Care and Dialysis Job Description

The nursing director co-creates a culture of excellence, innovation, and transformation with professional nurses, other leaders, and Associates. The nursing director fosters healthy work environments, advances professional autonomy, clinical competences, and safe, ethical, and high-quality nursing care; and assures that nurses are allowed to practice within their full scope. The main goal is to assure the alignment of nursing’s goals, activities, and practices with the values and mission of the organization, governing boards, and constituencies.

In addition to accountability for the direction of nursing practice, nurse administrators are responsible for the oversight and direction of all aspects of the clinical or educational enterprise.

Nursing director has core accountabilities for the following: (a) safety, quality, and risk; (b) patient and population health advocacy; (c) clinical care delivery and optimal patient outcomes; (d) healthy work environment; (e) strategic, financial, and human resource management; (f) legal and regulatory compliance; (g) networking, partnering, and collaboration; and (h) accountability/advocacy for their Associates.

Nursing director, at this level of influence, has line authority over a service line or multiple units that have registered nurses working who deliver nursing care in inpatient, hospital outpatient departments, or ambulatory care settings. At Nemours Children’s Hospital these may include, but are not limited to, acute care, critical care, cardiac services, transport, and perioperative services. The nursing director reports directly or indirectly to the SVP, Chief Nursing and Patient Operations Officer.

The nursing director is charged with handling the daily operation of multiple units or departments. Typically, the nursing director is supported by a unit manager(s) who executes daily operations within defined clinical area(s). The nursing director efforts are directed toward program management, including program goals, objectives, and quality organizational outcomes. The nursing director mobilizes internal and external stakeholders to assure programmatic goals and objectives are met.

The Standards of Nursing Administration Practice are authoritative statement of the duties for all nurse administrators.

STANDARDS OF PRACTICE FOR NURSING ADMINISTRATION

• Assessment:
  
  Collect comprehensive pertinent data and information relative to the situation, issues, problem, or trend
• Identification of Problems, Issues, and Trends:
  Analyze the assessment data to identify problems, issues, and trends
• Outcomes Identification:
  Identify expected outcomes for a plan tailored to the system, organization, or population, problem, issues, or tend
• Planning:
  
  Develop a plan that defines, articulates, and establishes strategies and alternative to attain expected, measurable outcomes
• Implementation:
  Implement the identified plan
  • Coordination:
    
    Implement the plan and associated processes
  • 5b. Promotion of Health, Education, and a Safe Environment:
    
    Establish strategies to promote health, education, and a safe environment
• Evaluation:
  
  Evaluate progress towards attainment of goals outcomes

STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE FOR NURSING ADMINISTRATION

Ethics:

Practice ethically.

• Culturally Congruent Practice:
  Practice in a safe manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles
• Communication:
  
  Communicate effectively in in all areas of practice
• Collaboration:
  
  Collaborate with health care consumers, colleagues, community leaders, and other stakeholders to advance nursing proactive and health care transformation
• Leadership:
  
  Lead within the professional practice setting, profession, health care industry, and society
• Education:
  
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