Assistant Director Nursing; RN) Ambulatory Orthopedics

The Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) for Ambulatory Orthopedic Services at Med Star Washington Hospital Center is a member of the Med Star Health entity-based Division of Nursing and leadership team, providing clinical leadership and administrative oversight for ambulatory orthopedic services in collaboration with the Director of Nursing. This role directs and coordinates clinical operations and patient care delivery for professional nursing and support staff, ensuring the provision of holistic, culturally competent, person-centered, safe, high-quality, cost-effective, and evidence-based care throughout the orthopedic treatment and recovery journey.

The ADON supports staff development, promotes shared decision-making, monitors clinical quality and performance outcomes, and ensures adherence to regulatory and accreditation standards and Med Star Health policies and procedures. Working collaboratively with orthopedic surgeons, advanced practice providers, rehabilitation specialists, and interdisciplinary partners, the ADON coordinates patient transitions across the continuum of care, advances quality and patient safety initiatives, and fosters a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and cost-conscious care.

This leader demonstrates behaviors consistent with Med Star Health's mission, vision, goals, SPIRIT Values, patient care philosophy, and commitment to sound moral and ethical judgment while promoting optimal patient outcomes and staff engagement.

• In collaboration with the Director of Nursing develops site/office goals objectives policies and procedures and ensures compliance with entity policies and procedures clinical practice guidelines and regulatory and accreditation standards.
• Develops and maintains effective relationships and partnerships across disciplines (e.g. medicine) and departments (e.g. environmental services) to ensure the delivery of efficient and quality patient care services. Contributes to the efforts to ensures site/office activities and patient throughput proceed smoothly.
• In collaboration with the Director of Nursing develops standards of performance for associates evaluates performance and conducts performance management planning. Initiates or makes recommendations for personnel actions. Sets clear expectations for performance and holds associates accountable. Maintains ongoing communication with associates to review programs discuss new developments and exchange information.
• Completes annual performance reviews of site/office-based associates in a timely manner. Ensures the reviews reflect the individual associate's ability to meet performance expectations and beneficial ongoing developmental goals. Provides associates with ongoing feedback and champions their continued professional growth and development.
• In the absence of the Director of Nursing/Senior Director of Nursing maintains communication with the VP and CNO MAS & MMG Medical Director providers other clinical leaders and personnel from other departments for the purpose of coordinating operations among the site/office clinical nursing division and entity.
• Contributes to the development implementation monitoring and management of the site/office-based budget and to support the organizational objectives patient care standards and quality of care. Demonstrates fiscal responsibility with day-to-day site(s)/office(s) productivity and operations. Ensures availability of necessary materials supplies and equipment for safe and optimal patient care delivery.
• Implements approaches and strategies that optimize patient care delivery and outcomes. Rounds on patients during the day for the purpose of engagement satisfaction and improvement in the care experience. Investigates and follows through on patient complaints and safety events.
• Supports and promotes quality and patient safety initiatives and high reliability standards. Leads site/office-based safety huddles. Escalates care delivery concerns to the Director of Nursing and other leaders as necessary and following the chain-of-command. Takes action to ensure optimal execution of the National Patient Safety Goals nursing sensitive indicators/measures regulatory requirements and other identified quality metrics. Identifies and participates in performance improvement opportunities as appropriate and based on findings.
• Collaborates with the Director of Nursing and Operations leader(s) in the hiring evaluation…