Director, Nursing
Atlantic Health System
- Summit, NJ
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Maintains authority and accountability for the 24-hour management, administration, and organizational development of the OB/Maternity division.
- Participates in the implementation of the Medical Center's strategic plan, performance improvement programs, Human Resources programs, and annual operating budget, plans, goals, and objectives.
- Demonstrates a clear vision that supports AHS's vision, mission and shared values; foresees challenges and opportunities; generates break through ideas through innovation.
- Plans, organizes, and provides administrative oversight of assigned patient care units and/or departments.
- Ensures attainment of clinical, service, financial, and growth parameters for assigned patient care units/departments.
- Monitors nursing standards of practice, policies, procedures, protocols, and guidelines to ensure compliance with internal and external regulatory agencies.
- Provides effective clinical leadership, to ensure clinical metrics are identified, tracked and that clinical benchmarks are met for supervising departments.
- Has a strong understanding of EMS and community outreach as well as emgergency operations to improve access, growth, throughput, and quality.
- Provides the leadership support and resources to ensure a talent pipeline for succession planning and ensures professional development opportunities for team members.
- Responds to patients and families, as necessary. Acts as a patient advocate and maintains privacy and confidentiality of all appropriate information.
- Serves as a liaison to bed management and helps to drive decreasing throughput times.
- Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
- Nurse Managers, Assistant Nurse Managers, Clinical educators, nurses, patient care technicians, unit secretaries.
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the required job qualifications. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- A Bachelors (BA/BS/BSN) and Masters (MA/MS/MSN/MBA/MPA) degree are required. One degree must be in nursing.
- PhD or DNP preferred.
- 5 or more years of experience in a progressive nursing leadership position.
- Excellent oral/written communication skills.
- Must possess strong process improvement and financial management expertise.
- BLS required
- Minimum of 5 - 7 years of progressive leadership
- Minimum of 5 years of L&D experience
- Creates a working environment that promotes positive employee engagement, adherence to company policies, effective communications, collaboration, innovation, optimal productivity and continuous learning.
- Assures that systems are in place to ensure appropriate resources and competent staff.
- Directs department operations on a continuous basis and advises management on operational and functional improvement opportunities.
- Ensures that budget monitoring processes are in place and that appropriate action plans are established to address variances outside of established parameters.
- Identifies and implements ways to reduce and control expenses, as well as enhance revenues in the hospital and assigned areas.
- Ensures staff and physician awareness of cost impact on organization.
- Focuses staff on continuously building customer satisfaction for patients, physicians, colleagues, the community, and other departments served.
- Engages staff in continually raising the bar in service excellence.
- Communicates effectively as hospital/system advocate to members of the community, continually seeks ways to promote organization to the public.
- Assures that implementation of standards of professional practice occurs, reviewing and revising according to policy or as necessary to reflect changes in practice and to ensure safe, effective, and efficient patient care.
- Develop with our physician colleagues, a system wide quality review program.
- Ensures compliance with local, state, federal rules and regulations and OSHA and TJC standards.
- Consistently, with others, evaluates core processes for redesign opportunities to improve operations, reduce cost, reduce cycle time, enhance service and improve performance.
- Promotes and maintains harmonious and effective relationships with physicians.
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