Clinical Director - Nursing Leadership

Summary:

Manages the nursing services and staff for a department; ensures quality and full compliance with relevant policies and standards.

Responsibilities:

• Implementing and monitoring programs and practices for the delivery of safe and efficient quality nursing care for patients and their families


• Ensuring consistent application of nursing services policies and standards throughout the organization


• Monitoring patient outcomes and quality and effectiveness of nursing care


• Overseeing performance of teams; identifying and addressing staff training and development needs


• Apprising medical staff, department heads, and administrators in matters related to nursing service and strategies

Standard I: Financial Management

• Recognizes the impact of reimbursement on revenue


• Understands the relationship between values-based purchasing and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement


• Creates, monitors, and analyzes a budget; explaining variance


• Conducts ongoing evaluation of productivity, forecasting future revenue and expenses


• Documents capital appropriations and project authorizations

Standard II. Human Resources Management

• Evaluates and specifies the critical resources required to accomplish the team's objectives


• Initiates requests for required resources based on staff competency with patient acuity


• Allocates team resources responsibly and equitably within the scope of labor laws


• Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison


• Discovers opportunities to improve resource utilization


• Implements changes in role consistent with scope of practice


• Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow


• Resolves conflicts in a wide variety of situations, such as workload allocation, schedule overlap etc.


• Adjusts management and personal style to fit the needs of different people and different situations


• Explores motivational factors and tailors motivational efforts to individual needs and situations for the department


• Conducts evaluations on personnel performance at the work place and recommends improvement plans


• Coaches others on operating personnel management systems and their processes

Standard III. Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors

• Situation Management


• Identifies issues that require immediate attention


• Applies principles of crisis management to handle situations as necessary


• Manages conflict


• Promotes team dynamics


• Mentors and coaches staff


• Promotes Professional Management


• Promotes and encourages stress management


• Encourages participation in professional action


• principles of self-awareness


• Fosters a healthy work environment


• Diversity


• Understands the components of cultural competence as they apply to the


• workforce


• Maintains an environment of fairness and processes to support it


• Capitalizes on differences to foster highly effective work groups

Standard VI. Performance Improvement/Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations

• Assesses customer and patient satisfaction while developing and implementing strategies to address satisfaction issues


• provides direct service to internal or external customers


• Facilitates the resolution of customer problems, issues, or concerns


• Monitors and promotes workplace safety requirements resulting in positive patient outcomes


• Applies systems thinking knowledge as an approach to analysis and decision-making


• Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities


• Provides evidence-based nursing care


• Promotes and communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care

Standard V. Leadership

• Serves as a leader of patient care


• Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc.


• Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, influence, determination, integrity, confidence


• Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events


• Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate and attain desired behaviors; increases productivity


• Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transformational, and associated techniques


• Applies techniques of “action learning” to problem solve and personally reflect on


• decisions

Clinical Performance Improvement

• Shares experiences with process performance improvements across multiple areas


• Recognizes recurring and difficult problems and explores new or innovative solutions


• Leverages technology to facilitate the sharing of clinical performance or outcomes data


• Compares and contrasts different approaches for performance improvement; highlights pros and cons


• Creates mechanism for ensuring quality and performance measures are understood and valued by nursing staff


• Consults on and coaches on developing business cases to justify improvement initiatives

Clinical Policies and Standards

• Monitors different types of clinical practice to ensure compliance with standards


• Evaluates existing and evolving standards and procedures and their impact on the organization


• Informs others on advanced clinical standards and policies across medical specialties


• Collaborates with other functions in establishing and documenting joint standards


• Participates in the development of clinical policies and practices


• Develops control and monitoring mechanisms for clinical policies adherence

Healthcare Policy and Ethics Compliance

• Shares experiences with addressing diverse problems in healthcare policy compliance


• Demonstrates best practices for dealing with complex compliance or non-compliance situations


• Guides others in making correct decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas


• Designs or revises organizational practices and procedures to ensure compliance with policies


• Supports and coaches on mechanisms that encourage attention to compliance issues; all clinical activities


• Participates in translating policy changes into operational programs and services

Healthcare Regulatory Environment

• Implements programs as needed to comply with diverse healthcare laws or regulations


• Monitors regulatory compliance of all healthcare practices to ensure no violations


• Evaluates key aspects of pending healthcare regulations and legislation that may impact company


• Provides recommendations and implements solutions to existing and potential legal problems


• Shares main considerations and issues related to laws and regulations in the implementation of healthcare practices


• Collaborates and communicates with all departments of healthcare organization for the preparation for external audits.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree


• Minimum of 3-5 years of clinical patient care experience in a relevant setting


• Minimum of 2 years of healthcare leadership


• RN License in state of employment or compact


• BLS

Work Schedule:

5 Days - 8 Hours

Work Type:

Full Time