Nursing Director Orthopedics

About the role

Plans, integrates, controls and evaluates human, material and fiscal resources required to provide patient care in specific departments. Provides leadership in establishing standards, goals, and direction. Facilitates, coordinates, and manages staff, material, and financial resources to achieve patient outcomes/care and to promote professional development/practice of staff. Incorporates the Nursing Department philosophy into leadership and clinical practice. Ensures implementation of departmental and department specific patient care standards and nurse competencies. This position serves the following patient age categories: neonatal, pediatrics, adolescent, adult and geriatric.

Responsibilities

• Assures an effective system for management of human resources.
• Evaluates and determines human resource needs for program development, maintenance or revision.
• Assures the following human resource functions meet organizational guidelines: position control, interviewing, hiring, scheduling, disciplinary process/termination, promotion; maintains system for evaluating staff performance in accordance with organizational guidelines.
• Develops/maintains criteria for staff performance in accordance with professional, regulatory agencies and departmental standards.
• Assures performance appraisal completion.
• Facilitates and develops effective work groups/team/staff members.
• Manages retention/turnover rate to meet organizational objectives.
• Develops/maintains an environment that supports learning and professional development.
• Assures departmental patient care services meets organizational goals and objectives.
• Develops and promotes departmental philosophy.
• Identifies and develops departmental goals and objectives utilizing trend data and customer and staff input.
• Develops/maintains an ongoing department organizational structure to meet program goals.
• Assures patient care outcomes are achieved through leadership rounds, case conferences, and data evaluation.