Dir of Pat Care Svs-Nurse Exec

Company Overview Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please  to learn more about our locations.

Job Description The Director of Patient Care Services (DPCS) is responsible for directing, planning, and facilitating long and short term goals, policies and procedures, and process improvements for assigned departments. The DPCS maintains effective communication with all nursing and other ASC personnel; physicians, board members and stakeholders. The DPCS strives for the advancement of the nursing profession within the community and on the local, state, and national level.

The DPCS maintains awareness of legislation affecting nursing practice and implements practice or process changes as needed; acts as a resource person for the hospital related to nursing standards and practices.

Key Responsibilities:

Participates in the development, monitoring and execution the Ambulatory Surgery Centers strategic plan demonstrating systems thinking and change management skills. In collaboration with unit/department managers contributes to planning, decision making and policy formulation.

Attends/holds membership on hospital and medical staff committees as appropriate. Attends Board of Governors and physician meetings to report on activities of nursing and assigned departments.

Provides administrative coverage in the absence of the administrator. Participates in community educational programs and meetings as the hospital's representative.

Demonstrates ability to lead/direct Patient Care Services (PCS) team by providing leadership, mentoring and guidance to patient care leaders and staff using principles of management. Identifies needed changes, facilitates/directs the change and role models positive attitude toward change. Role models professional nursing practice and behaviors. Coaches (PCS) management team in leadership principles. Collaborates with members of the hospital’s leadership team.

Identifies, develops and facilitates: patient safety initiatives, quality improvement strategies, nursing and employee satisfaction initiatives and other programs to maintain and improve the patient-focused culture of assigned departments and services. Embraces shared decision making by energizing staff and others in decision making that is patient and family centered in an environment that is conducive to discussion and opinion sharing.

Maintains positive verbal / nonverbal communication in interactions with staff, other departments, physicians, patients and families.

Maintains patient and employee confidentiality in all communication interactions: written, verbal, and electronic.

Builds and maintains a trusting collaborative relationship with staff, peers, other disciplines and ancillary services, physicians, vendors, community leaders, nursing and other education programs. Accomplishing objectives through persuasion, celebrating successes and accomplishments and communicating a shared vision.

Responsible for oversight, development, allocation, and administration of the budget for assigned departments, based on past requirements, forecasted patient care needs, best practice, available resources and for quality management outcomes. Read, analyze, and interpret the most complex data documents.

Develop, implements and assures the organization's plan for providing nursing care and other assigned patient services in accordance with the mission / vision of the hospital. Evaluates problems and concerns in the patient care services…