Director, Nursing - Emergency Services

About the role

The Director of Nursing is a registered professional nurse who provides leadership and management of a specific service line through the application of advanced competencies in communication, job knowledge, professionalism and business skills. This leader is a member of the chief nursing officer's administrative team and may serve as her/his designee for assigned responsibilities. He/she reports to the nursing operations leader and demonstrates own leadership to effectively partner with nursing leadership, hospital vice presidents, medical staff and other departments to create a center of excellence for their specialty service and to meet or exceed the hospital's mission, vision and goals.

Scope of responsibility

• Administers to two or more cost centers with a range of 50 to 200 FTEs in a hospital or specialty hospital in a smaller rural community area or system accountability for a domain of nursing practice
• Handles a budget less than 80 million dollars
• Provides direct leadership for a group of nurse managers and others who comprise their specialty service line

Core responsibilities

Exemplary Practice and Outcomes

• Holds self and staff to the highest professional standards and ethics ensuring corporate compliance standards etc. are met by leaders and staff
• Is an active member of one's professional community and serves as a role model for professional nursing practice and nursing leadership advances the field through transformational executive leadership, support of shared governance, and scholarly activity
• Successfully works with the nurse manager to employ change management strategies and instills in self and others the curiosity to explore new knowledge and ideas

Resources and Support

• Engages leaders in decision-making and partners with others to promote patient centered care and service excellence while effectively providing leadership and management skills for a specific business/clinical unit, possesses strong and effective negotiation and mediation skills
• Serves to support the nurse managers to promote the effective running of the care delivery system and ensures that the clinical processes of care are working as intended
• Serves as a resource for all leaders and accepts additional leadership responsibilities
• Analyzes and manages financial resources; uses lean and other quality skills to reduce waste and improve performance of operations and clinical systems of care; integrates marketing and communication strategies to advance one's service line and organization as a whole
• Hires and develops an engaged team of leaders and staff that raises each other's performance to achieve top percentile standing in all pillar goals

Interdisciplinary Teamwork and Collaboration

• Effectively communicates to diverse audiences on nursing, health care and organizational issues and this includes the ability to set standards and holds leaders and staff accountable for performance standards
• Proactively establishes a health work place by reducing unnecessary conflict - resolves it when necessary promotes and achieves positive team dynamics
• Establishes partnerships by employing strong relationship building skills with all hospital leaders and medical staff by striving to understand others (and situations) and keeping the long view in mind is fair and just using reflective practice skills to monitor self and leader performance/interaction skills exercising coaching and guiding skills
• Creates opportunities for self and leaders to grow professionally and implements a desirable workplace to recruit and retain talented leaders and staff

Professional Development

• Seeks opportunities to advance knowledge and skills through formal and information education offerings to enhance one's understanding of how healthcare is financed and how to manage a diverse nursing workforce
• Represents the organization positively to the community, building credibility and willingness to serve on committees and taskforces as needed to share knowledge and skill; champion a service line or need; and seeks opportunities to advance skill and scope of responsibilities

Evidence Based Practice and Research

• Effectively identifies areas of improvement of leaders and clinical systems and sponsors projects to improve the same
• Includes assuring nursing division meets or exceeds licensure, regulatory and accreditation standards
• Applies the effective use of data and evidence to support decision making for clinical and operational responsibilities and demonstrates awareness of legal and ethical issues related to patient and staff data, information and confidentiality

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Registered Nurse; includes three (3) years of progressive operational leadership to include direct management of others and financial management
• Experience managing department-level budget and metrics strongly preferred
• In lieu of master's degree, must be enrolled in a graduate program with completion expected within 12 months of hire date

Education & licenses

• Bachelor's in Nursing
• Master's in Nursing or Master's Other/Related Field
• RN - Reg Nurse (Single State) or RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact (required upon hire)
• BLS - Basic Life Support or ARC-BLS - Amer Red Cross Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor (required upon hire)