Director Nursing - Women's Newborn Services

Responsibilities

• 25% Operations/ Personnel Management: Assumes 24 hour accountability for ongoing delivery of patient care for a division or service line, consisting of multiple nursing/patient care units/areas; maintains a broad awareness of daily operations to guide patient care delivery;
• Participates in strategic planning, service line growth and practice innovator
• Provides leadership and guidance to managerial and support staff in daily operations of patient care areas.
• Assists managerial and support staff in identifying and resolving ethical and interdepartmental issues.
• Participates in process improvement activities and root cause analysis investigations.
• Provides guidance to managers with performance related issues.
• Provides leadership in the determination of clinical, scholarly, and administrative nursing goals and directions, as well as the associated functions and processes necessary to achieve those goals.
• Participates in development and implementation of hospital plan for provision of patient care by monitoring and recommending productivity levels for care provided by nursing personnel.
• Participates in acquiring, allocating and evaluating human, material and financial resources for specific functions and processes.
• Responsible for development of and administration of annual capital and operating budgets within scope of responsibility; monitors performance by reviewing variances and takes corrective action to meet expected performance levels.
• Collaborates with other departments to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of all patient care activities.
• Establishes and maintains systems of clinical and administrative records and reports to meet standards of regulatory and licensing agencies and to provide information base for effective administrative action.
• Strives to provide workforce reflecting population diversity. Ensures delivery of culturally-competent care and ensures safe and healthy, safe working environment.

Leadership

• Participates in development, implementation and evaluation of organizational policies, procedures and programs at executive level.
• Actively participates in organizational committees and decision making.
• Interprets and facilitates application and implementation of philosophy, objectives and standards; identifies methods and monitors achievement of relevant objectives and standards.
• Provides leadership in assurance of professional nursing practice environment in which registered nurses are autonomous, govern their practice, and are accountable to provide effective, efficient, safe, and compassionate quality care.
• Facilitates atmosphere of participative management and development of collegial relationships amongst nursing and other organization staff.
• Collaborates with other professional disciplines to achieve organizational health care goals.
• Actively participates in interdepartmental relationship building.
• Serves as a professional role-model and mentor to motivate, recruit, and retain professional and unlicensed personnel.
• Responsible for identifying methods to achieve and monitor compliance with requirements of regulatory agencies.
• Responsible for the overall management of nursing practice, nursing education and professional development, and nursing research for an individual service line.

Patient Care

• Implements effective and ongoing program to measure, assess, and improve quality and appropriateness of nursing care delivered to patients;
• Supports and facilitates outcome measurement and evidenced-based practice.
• Uses data from various sources to initiate quality and process improvement within department.
• Participates in development, implementation and evaluation of: standards of nursing care and practice, nursing policies and procedures, nursing job descriptions, initial competency assessments, annual competency assessments, and nursing documentation systems.
• Evaluates factors related to safety, outcomes, effectiveness, cost and social impact of patient care services within scope of responsibility.

Evidence-Based Practice

• Provides support for conduct, dissemination, integration and utilization of research to ensure evidence-based nursing practice, healthcare and management systems.
• Advocates for resources to support research.
• Facilitates dissemination of research findings and integration of evidence-based guidelines and practices within the health-care setting.
• Identifies areas of clinical and administrative inquiry suitable for nurse researchers.
• Identifies key measures for the departments success, based on the organization goals and objectives.
• Makes progress and develops actions to attain goals.
• Communicates goals to staff and to others in the organization.

Professional Development

• Develops and maintains professional competencies by attending educational and leadership programs and participating in professional and community organizations.
• Sets opportunities for publication, presentation and professional leadership in professional and community societies.
• Promotes environment for learning within the department; encourages and facilitates staff and management attendance and internal and external educational activities.
• Serves as link between nursing staff and other health care disciplines, both within and outside of organized nursing services.
• Contributes to development of managers with respect to administrative, leadership, and managerial skills and personal/professional goals to prepare for increased responsibilities.