Director of Nursing Telemetry

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Director of Nursing is responsible for facilitating, coordinating, and delegating the delivery of patient care to a defined group of patients during their entire hospitalization period. They provide leadership and overall responsibility for the functioning of assigned clinical patient-care/procedural units. They are responsible 24/7, with full accountability, for the staffing and management of patient care in each of their units, promoting the practice of professional nursing as specified in the patient care area, and acquiring, developing, and utilizing resources (human and material) needed to fulfill these responsibilities.

This role acts as a liaison between physicians and the patient care team and collaborates with administrators, physicians, staff, other managers, and all customers of the Methodist Healthcare System to provide services that consistently meet and exceed customer expectations. This is achieved by assessing and prioritizing opportunities to improve, plan, and implement effective changes and evaluate outcomes of process improvement activities. The Director of Nursing models behavior consistent with the MHS management philosophy.

Essential Job Functions

• Builds and maintains a high-functioning team.
• Manages and provides guidance and direction to first-line supervisors/charge personnel, including interviewing, work allocation, orientation and training, staff development, problem resolution, evaluating performance, making recommendations for personnel actions, and motivating employees to achieve peak performance.
• Is responsible for meeting unit productivity targets.
• Manages and plans for unit and clinical activities, including supervising the treatment and care of the patients.
• Responsible for organizing, directing, teaching, and evaluating nursing care within the area of responsibility, ensuring adequate staffing.
• Participates in the planning, development, and management of operational and equipment budgets annually.
• Provides financial variance analysis reports in a timely manner.
• Reviews monthly financial statistics and plans expenditures according to budget limitations.
• Manages the ongoing implementation of approved plans.
• Anticipates the purchase or replacement of equipment with input from staff and physicians.
• Implements the equipment purchase process.
• Anticipates and recommends needs for added space and needed services not provided by the organization.

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing
  • Three years of recent RN acute care experience
  • PREFERRED: Master’s Degree in Nursing or related field; 1-year management experience as a charge RN, clinical care manager/supervisor, or manager

  Minimum Requirements

  • Certified Registered Nurse (RN) license to practice professional nursing in the state of Texas
  • RN license must be obtained within 90 days of hire

  Company Information

  Methodist Hospital Metropolitan houses 370 beds. We house the largest emergency room in downtown San Antonio. Our women's pavilion is the only freestanding, center-city facility dedicated to the health of women and their newborn babies. We welcome nearly 3,000 newborns into the world each year. We are home to the Methodist Weight Loss Center. We have been designated an American Society for Metabolic Surgery Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence®. Our hospital has been recognized by Modern Healthcare as a Best Place to Work in Healthcare. We are the first hospital in San Antonio to achieve Pathway to Excellence designation. Methodist Hospital Metropolitan has been recognized by Leapfrog for focus on safety and quality. We received a Grade A Hospital Safety Score for 8 consecutive rating periods. We are proud to be an Accredited Chest Pain Center by the American College of Cardiology and Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission. We were the premier Texas hospital to earn a Gold Seal of Approval for Sepsis Certification.