Clinical Director - Nursing Leadership

About the Role

Manages the nursing services and staff for a department, ensuring quality and full compliance with relevant policies and standards.

Responsibilities

• Implementing and monitoring programs and practices for the delivery of safe and efficient quality nursing care for patients and their families.
• Ensuring consistent application of nursing services policies and standards throughout the organization.
• Monitoring patient outcomes and quality and effectiveness of nursing care.
• Overseeing performance of teams; identifying and addressing staff training and development needs.
• Apprising medical staff, department heads, and administrators in matters related to nursing service and strategies.

Financial Management

• Recognizes the impact of reimbursement on revenue.
• Understands the relationship between values-based purchasing and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement.
• Creates, monitors, and analyzes a budget; explaining variance.
• Conducts ongoing evaluation of productivity, forecasting future revenue and expenses.
• Documents capital appropriations and project authorizations.

Human Resources Management

• Evaluates and specifies the critical resources required to accomplish the team's objectives.
• Initiates requests for required resources based on staff competency with patient acuity.
• Allocates team resources responsibly and equitably within the scope of labor laws.
• Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison.
• Discovers opportunities to improve resource utilization.
• Implements changes in role consistent with scope of practice.
• Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow.
• Resolves conflicts in a wide variety of situations, such as workload allocation, schedule overlap, etc.
• Adjusts management and personal style to fit the needs of different people and different situations.
• Explores motivational factors and tailors motivational efforts to individual needs and situations for the department.
• Conducts evaluations on personnel performance at the workplace and recommends improvement plans.
• Coaches others on operating personnel management systems and their processes.

Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors

• Identifies issues that require immediate attention and applies principles of crisis management.
• Manages conflict and promotes team dynamics.
• Mentors and coaches staff.
• Promotes and encourages stress management.
• Encourages participation in professional action principles of self-awareness.
• Fosters a healthy work environment.
• Understands the components of cultural competence as they apply to the workforce.
• Maintains an environment of fairness and processes to support it.
• Capitalizes on differences to foster highly effective work groups.

Performance Improvement, Safe Practice, Quality Care, and Regulations

• Assesses customer and patient satisfaction while developing and implementing strategies to address satisfaction issues.
• Provides direct service to internal or external customers.
• Facilitates the resolution of customer problems, issues, or concerns.
• Monitors and promotes workplace safety requirements resulting in positive patient outcomes.
• Applies systems thinking knowledge as an approach to analysis and decision-making.
• Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities.
• Provides evidence-based nursing care.
• Promotes and communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care.

Leadership

• Serves as a leader of patient care.
• Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, influence, determination, integrity, confidence.
• Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events.
• Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate and attain desired behaviors; increases productivity.
• Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transformational, and associated techniques.
• Applies techniques of "action learning" to problem solve and personally reflect on decisions.

Clinical Performance Improvement

• Shares experiences with process performance improvements across multiple areas.
• Recognizes recurring and difficult problems and explores new or innovative solutions.
• Leverages technology to facilitate the sharing of clinical performance or outcomes data.
• Compares and contrasts different approaches for performance improvement; highlights pros and cons.
• Creates mechanisms for ensuring quality and performance measures are understood and valued by nursing staff.
• Consults on and coaches on developing business cases to justify improvement initiatives.

Clinical Policies and Standards

• Monitors different types of clinical practice to ensure compliance with standards.
• Evaluates existing and evolving standards and procedures and their impact on the organization.
• Informs others on advanced clinical standards and policies across medical specialties.
• Collaborates with other functions in establishing and documenting joint standards.
• Participates in the development of clinical policies and practices.
• Develops control and monitoring mechanisms for clinical policies adherence.

Healthcare Policy and Ethics Compliance

• Shares experiences with addressing diverse problems in healthcare policy compliance.
• Demonstrates best practices for dealing with complex compliance or non-compliance situations.
• Guides others in making correct decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas.
• Designs or revises organizational practices and procedures to ensure compliance with policies.
• Supports and coaches on mechanisms that encourage attention to compliance issues; all clinical activities.
• Participates in translating policy changes into operational programs and services.

Healthcare Regulatory Environment

• Implements programs as needed to comply with diverse healthcare laws or regulations.
• Monitors regulatory compliance of all healthcare practices to ensure no violations.
• Evaluates key aspects of pending healthcare regulations and legislation that may impact the company.
• Provides recommendations and implements solutions to existing and potential legal problems.
• Shares main considerations and issues related to laws and regulations in the implementation of healthcare practices.
• Collaborates and communicates with all departments of the healthcare organization for the preparation for external audits.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of clinical patient care experience in a relevant setting.
• Minimum of 2 years of healthcare leadership experience.
• RN License in state of employment or compact.
• BLS certification.

Schedule

5 Days - 8 Hours

Work Type

Full Time