Chief Nurse Executive

1202 Highway 60

Socorro, NM

The CNE is focused on developing a highly effective, accountable and professional nursing and clinical community for the exceptional patient and employee experience, achieving high reliability in clinical outcomes, and meeting budgetary/ financial performance for the areas assigned. This position is responsible for ongoing regulatory readiness, collaboration to ensure safe and effective nurse staffing, and integration with key areas to achieve efficient operations, patient placement and resource utilization.

Leader for the patient experience and is responsible to drive results, ensure appropriate patient and family involvement, timely resolution of complaints and sets the overall tone where the Presbyterian Promise and excellence is the norm. This position provides leadership for nursing departments, new program development, and continuous improvement projects, and assists with cross departmental initiatives.

• * Champion and engage in interprofessional collaboration among nursing, medical and allied health professionals to achieve optimal patient care service outcomes and effective integration of care to meet or exceed patient, family, staff and provider experience and expectations via the Presbyterian Promise.
• * Lead efforts to maintain ongoing regulatory readiness through process improvement, measurement and policy oversight.
• * Through successful management of resources, assure that recruitment, orientation, education, certification, communication and retention needs of qualified nursing and support staff are met. Meet overall and first year employee turnover goals.
• * Create and continually promote a positive and collaborative climate which promotes strong direct care nursing/ staff engagement to participate in decisions that influence the establishment and attainment of unit, department, and hospital objectives including the responsibility for patient satisfaction, quality outcomes, and their own growth and professional competencies.
• * Ensure a practice environment that enables the implementation of evidence-based nursing best practices that are consistent throughout the organization and aligned with the organizations broader high reliability quality improvement plan.
• * Support of Shared Governance Model and Partners in Care committee within the facility through planning, improvement, and implementation of their body of work.
• * Prepare, monitor, and document adherence to budget for the nursing and support services. In collaboration with the facility finance business partner, evaluate the effectiveness of tools utilized for monitoring nursing unit productivity and staffing. Evaluate nurse staffing and ensure adequacy and safety, recommends improvements to the staffing model.
• * Continuously improve patient care services through innovative service enhancements, exploration of developmental opportunities, coordination of initiatives across multiple departments, performing benchmarking, market and competitor analysis, understanding quality and cost drivers; actively lead performance improvement initiatives and monitor nursing-sensitive quality and safety indicators.
• * Be driven to achieve continuous improvement in quality of clinical care and skilled in the use of data to drive change.
• * Evaluate and improve the quality of nursing care provided; redesign and improve models of care that are integrated with the care team and deploy; monitor effectiveness.
• * Provide input for priorities, timing and methods to ensure that training and development of nursing personnel is in place for routine and ongoing validation of competency for new processes and required skills.
• * Support, coach, and mentor others to succeed with change; develop…