Director Nursing - Operating Room - John C. Lincoln Medical Center

About the role

This role will have oversight of the Main OR & Outpatient Surgery Center at John C. Lincoln Medical Center. This role will report to the Sr. Clinical Director for the Perioperative service line.

Essential Functions

• Promotes an environment that supports excellence in personalized patient care and service by leading and directing implementation of a nursing leadership model and collaborative practice delivery system to commit to absolute quality, clinical care and service.
• Fosters collaborative partnerships with medical staff, members of the organization, and community.
• Uses evidence-based knowledge in decision making to improve and maintain high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
• Develops and is accountable for annual capital and operational budgets for defined areas of responsibility.
• Develops a strategic plan for short- and long-range goals including material, fiscal, and human resources.
• Identifies ways to strengthen the organization's financial health.
• Oversees the staff and ensure adequate staffing levels, inclusive of hiring/onboarding, evaluating, managing performance, coaching and developing employees ensuring employee productivity, quality of work, and alignment of goals with our mission, vision, and values.
• Ensure compliance with all policies, financial stewardship by being accountable for the financial integrity around development and maintenance of department budget.
• Direct, manage and evaluate personnel assigned to the defined areas, monitors competence of staff.
• Promotes organizational climate of decision-making, autonomy and accountability.
• Develops, facilitates and supports management infrastructure and unit-based structure.
• Participates with Medical staff, members of the management team, and the community to promote collegiality, communication, and operational effectiveness and efficiency.
• Facilitates and supports nursing and other educational opportunities to provide innovative learning experiences for staff and students and create a culture of development.
• Fosters collaborative relationships with schools of nursing and other external organizations.
• Develop and maintain systems for clinical and management records and reports to comply with State and Federal regulatory agencies, accreditation agencies, and other legal regulatory bodies.
• Supports service line initiatives to assure organizational and operational service line goals are met.
• Projects and plans for future program development, use of space, facilities and equipment for assigned areas.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelors from an accredited NLN institution
• Required: Masters in Nursing or other Healthcare related field
• Preferred: National certification for unit's specific patient population
• Required: 1 year Supervisor
• Required: 5 years in Nursing
• Required: Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) - Certification
• Required: Registered Nurse (RN) - License State Licensure And/or Compact State Licensure