Nurse Director of Women and Children

Employment Type: Full time, Day Shift

About the Role

The Nurse Leader (NL) is a licensed registered nurse (RN) accountable for leading, managing, and advancing people, processes, and/or programs that support direct or indirect patient care. The NL promotes and advocates for patients, nurses/colleagues, and the practice of nursing as defined by clinical area(s) of expertise and assignment.

Responsibilities

• Trinity Health Culture: Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health and MercyOne Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.
• Professional Nursing Practice: Acts independently and appropriately within license, scope of knowledge, and experience in practice area. Supports safety by adhering to standards and acting as a champion role model. Accountable for personal learning and development by participating in knowledge, skill, and competency-enhancing activities.
• Professional Nursing Process: Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates (document, teach, coordinate, advocate) standard elements of professional practice: Assess, Diagnose, Outcomes Identification/Solutions, Plan, Implement, Evaluate (ANA). Participates in the development of clinical standards that are collaborative, collegial, and supported by current and relevant evidence-based practices, science, trends, and data (clinical and administrative) and patient care (AONL).
• Professional Leadership Practice: Inspires team to embrace the organization’s Mission, Values, and Vision. Cultivates excellence by supporting growth and development of the team. Advocates for continuous development with a focus on mentoring and succession planning. Engages and fosters transpersonal teaching and learning in the context of the caring relationship. Embraces and encourages humanistic altruistic values and behaviors. Advances nurses and others in the provision of quality-focused, patient-centered, and relationship-based healthcare. Utilizes transformational leadership principles (Magnet). Leads team effectively through change, recognizing reach beyond nursing to include broader healthcare implications. Embraces ideas and cultural differences while managing complex or competing priorities. Enhances a culturally proficient work team through respect, dialogue, and inclusion.
• Professional Leadership Process: Provides leadership and retains accountability for delegation, choices, decisions, and outcomes. Collaborates with key stakeholders and contributes to quality and improvement practices. Empowers staff to creatively problem-solve through the caring process (Caritas). Enhances an environment that prioritizes patient and colleague safety utilizing established and evidence-based practices, tools, and methodologies. Drives effective patient, process, performance, and stewardship/financial outcomes as measured by established metrics and trended data. Exhibits agility and willingness to take on new and additional responsibilities.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing and a bachelor’s degree is required.
• Master’s degree is required within five (5) years of hire, with continuous enrollment in a relevant graduate program documented.
• Current Iowa RN license (MercyOne Genesis, excluding Aledo and DeWitt – current Registered Nurse (RN) license in either Iowa or Illinois is required at the time of hire. A secondary RN license for the other state must be obtained within 12 months of the hire date).
• Three (3) to five (5) years of clinical nursing experience is required.
• Relevant supervisory experience required.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) is required within three (3) months of hire.
• Proof of completion of Mandatory Reporter for both Child and Dependent Adult Abuse training is required within six (6) months of hire.
• Specialty practice certification is preferred.
• Must be comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.
• Must possess a personal presence that is characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity, and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the philosophy, mission, vision, goals, and values of Trinity Health and MercyOne.

Benefits

• Education Assistance offered
• Effective Day 1 Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, and more) for positions 16 hours per week or greater
• Competitive wages; including weekend and night differentials
• Generous paid time off program
• Retirement Savings program with employer match starting on Day 1