Chief Nursing Officer

3 weeks ago


West Palm Beach FL United States Other Executive Full time

MARKET SUMMARY:

PALM BEACH GROUP

St. Mary’s Medical Center, West Palm Beach, Florida

Founded in 1938, St. Mary’s Medical Center is a 420-bed, acute care hospital that provides medical, surgical, obstetrical, pediatric, trauma and emergency services to a five-county area. What started as a small 50-bed facility founded by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, has grown into a dynamic institution, known for its innovation and award-winning programs, as well as a legacy of excellence that began more than three generations ago.

A leader in critical care medicine, St. Mary’s treats more than 70,000 emergency and trauma patients each year. With advanced diagnostic and imaging services, we are the only GE Show site in the Southeastern United States for neurointerventional imaging technology. Our dedicated team of physicians and staff has helped us achieve top quality awards through The Birthplace, our level I trauma center, comprehensive stroke center, level III NICU and more. St. Mary’s Medical Center has many specialized programs, including a state-designated Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Center and Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

The Palm Beach Children’s Hospital at St. Mary’s Medical Center is the only dedicated pediatric hospital between Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando. As members of the national Children’s Hospital Association, we provide highly specialized services to more than 50,000 children each year. Our campus is also the home of Quantum House, a hospitality home for families of pediatric patients. Our numerous employees and affiliated physicians have dedicated themselves to healing our community

POSITION SUMMARY

The Chief Nursing Officer provides strategic leadership as the senior executive position responsible for all nursing and other designated patient care functions and services within the hospital organization. The role assumes responsibility for assessing, planning, coordinating, implementing and evaluating nursing practice on a facility level. The role assumes 24/7 responsibility and has accountability to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care. The Chief Nursing Officer represents nursing concerns on the governing board and at medical staff leadership meetings.

FUNCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

Retaining great people at the facility

  • Collaborate with human resources and other team members to select, on-board, orient, and provide coaching for direct reports.
  • Evaluate and monitor facility level people pillar statistics, participate on related calls as necessary.
  • Consider and/or implement nurse residency programs to ensure pipeline for facility.
  • Collaborate with team members to formulate programs to enhance work life balance.
  • Partner with related team members to promote a safe work environment that is based on a zero tolerance for sexual harassment, workplace violence and verbal and physical abuse.
  • Collaborate with related team members to promote an effective facility level competency program.
  • Collaborate to promote a robust employee development and education program that responds to the unique needs of employees across the career continuum (novice to expert).
  • Work cohesively with related team members to develop and implement recruitment and retention strategies that ensure a qualified and stable workforce.
  • Participate in workforce planning to ensure an adequate and competent workforce.
  • Support the design of effective and competitive compensation and benefits programs.

Communication and Relationship Building

  • Effectively communicate with all internal and external constituents, including staff, colleagues, and physicians.
  • Communicate and administer human resource programs and procedures in accordance with established policies.
  • Manage organizational relationships in a manner which builds mutual trust and respect. Establish trusting and collaborative relationships.
  • Address and manage conflict in a constructive and productive manner.
  • Give timely feedback and reinforce positive behaviors.

Leadership Influence

  • Create and communicate a compelling shared vision.
  • Develop effective strategies for addressing organizational priorities.
  • Develop, communicate and monitor performance expectations.
  • Formulate objectives, goals, and specific strategies related to the organization’s mission and vision.
  • Understand effective organizational outcome measures in order to balance cost, quality and service.
  • Measure and analyze performance from the learning and growth, business process, customer, and financial perspectives.
  • Promote a results-oriented environment.
  • Develop succession plan for nursing leadership.
  • Demonstrate effective change management; able to serve as an organizational change agent.
  • Coach and mentor aspiring nurse leaders.
  • Create an environment in which professional and personal growth is an expectation.
  • Articulate the application of ethical principles to operations.
  • Manage organizational and individual performance with appropriate rewards.
  • Represent nursing and patient care issues within the organization’s governance and medical staff structures.
  • Represent nursing and patient care in strategic planning and quality initiatives with the governing body.
  • Educate the organization’s board members and physicians regarding healthcare/value of nursing care.

Diversity

  • Create an environment that recognizes and values diversity.
  • Develop processes to incorporate cultural beliefs into care.
  • Design strategies that address the unique needs of a diverse workforce, patient population, and community.
  • Assess the current environment and establish indicators of progress toward cultural competency.

Shared decision-making/Shared Leadership

  • Engage staff and others in decision-making.
  • Promote decisions that are patient centered.
  • Provide an environment conducive to opinion-sharing.
  • Promote systems thinking as a value in the nursing organization.
  • Consider the impact of nursing decisions on the health care organization as a whole.
  • Provide leadership in building loyalty and commitment throughout the organization.
  • Synthesize and integrate divergent viewpoints for the good of the organization.
  • Involves employees in decision-making.
  • Attend and participate in regional CNO calls and meetings.

Clinical Practice Leadership

  • Understand and articulate patient care standards reflected in federal and state regulation, TJC, the state Nurse Practice Act, and organizational policies and procedures.
  • Maintain knowledge of current nursing practice and roles and functions within nursing and other healthcare disciplines.
  • Maintain current knowledge of patient care delivery systems and innovations.
  • Ensure that nursing practice is consistent with current standards and current evidenced based practice.
  • Ensure that the care delivery model, clinical environment of care and related technology is appropriate to needs of caregivers and patients.
  • Serve as change agent when patient care work/workflow is redesigned.
  • Advocate use of documented best practices.
  • Teach and mentor others to routinely utilize evidenced based data and research.
  • Assure that the clinical perspective is included in organizational decisions.
  • Supports regional senior director and Tenet CNO.

Academic Relationships

  • Provide a supportive and stimulating learning environment for nursing students.
  • Participate in the academic community through advisory and collaborative efforts.
  • Ensure that the educational system is aligned with organizational needs.
  • Collaborate with nursing programs to provide required resources; evaluate graduates.
  • Collaborate with academia in nursing research and incorporate nursing research into practice.

Resource Management

  • Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of organizational revenue, expense performance and capital planning.
  • Manage fiscal, human and material resources in a cost-effective manner.
  • Design and maintain effective systems for resource management in nursing.
  • Manage patient care processes such as care management/length of stay to ensure optimal revenue.
  • Utilize effective performance management in managing key areas of responsibility.

Quality, Patient Safety and Risk Management

  • Contribute to the development and implementation of the organization’s performance improvement program. Support the development and implementation of an organization-wide patient safety program.
  • Monitor and evaluate quality through public reported measure (i.e. core measures, nurse sensitive patient outcomes, infection control, etc) in collaboration with the facility DCQI and ICP, as well as national resources.
  • Actively participate in facility clinical close calls.
  • Define quality metrics by identifying the problem/process, measuring success at improving specific areas of patient care, analyzing the root causes or variation from quality standards, improving the process with the evidence, controlling solutions and sustaining success.
  • Interpret information from research.
  • Participate in studies that provide outcome measurements.
  • Utilize research findings for the establishment of standards, practices, and patient care models in the organization.
  • Disseminate research findings to patient care team members.
  • Support the development of a facility-wide patient safety program.
  • Support a non-punitive environment and a reward system for reporting unsafe practices.
  • Design safe clinical systems, processes, policies and procedures.
  • Allocate nursing resources based on measurement of patient acuity/care needed.
  • Ensure staff is clinically competent and trained on their role in patient safety, performance improvement, and risk management.
  • Support a safe culture that assures accountability and respects values and individual contributions.
  • Incorporate safety as a design element as appropriate.
  • Collaborate with RM to monitor and follow up on clinical risk trends.
  • Identify, mitigate and take action to correct areas of risk/liability in patient care.
  • Facilitate facility level annual pressure ulcer prevalence and incidence study results with corrective action.
  • Collaborate with related team members to monitor and evaluate a Culture of Safety through active coaching of direct reports to ensure that the culture of safety is cultivated at the facility.
  • Support the annual AHRQ Patient Safety Survey and follows up with corrective actions.

Information Management and Technology

  • Supports and embraces role in the adoption of EMR within facility.
  • Demonstrates basic competency in technology applications related to business and clinical functions.
  • Recognizes the relevance of nursing data for improving practice.
  • Utilizes facility database management, decision support, and expert system programs to access information and analyze data from disparate sources for use in planning for patient care processes and systems.
  • Participates in system change processes and utility analysis.
  • Evaluates and revises patient care processes and systems.
  • Participates in the evaluation of information systems in practice settings.
  • Uses computerized management systems to record administrative data (billing data, quality assurance data, workload data, etc.).
  • Uses applications for structured data entry (classification systems, acuity level, etc.).
  • Recognizes the utility of nursing involvement in the planning, design, choice and implementation of information systems in the practice environment.
  • Demonstrates awareness of societal and technological trends, issues and new developments as they apply to nursing.
  • Demonstrates proficient awareness of legal and ethical issues related to client data, information, and confidentiality.
  • Reads and interprets benchmarking, financial and occupancy data.

Service

  • Monitor and evaluate service indicators in collaboration with related team members at the facility level.
  • Facilitate education of employees related to service.
  • Actively facilitate Physician satisfaction survey, monitors result and collaborates with facility team members to develop and implement action plans.
  • Monitor and evaluate results of annual Employee Satisfaction Survey and collaborate with related team members to develop and implement action plans.

Professional Role Model

  • Advocate for nursing.
  • Assume personal and professional accountability.
  • Follow through on commitments.
  • Integrate high ethical standards and core values into everyday work activities.
  • Maintain a professional network of colleagues.
  • Contribute to the profession of nursing through professional organizations, publication, and other professional endeavors.
  • Participate in the legislative process and health policy issues that impact nursing and health care delivery.

ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP - EXPECTATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

As a leader in healthcare, Tenet is committed to providing the best possible care to every patient, with a clear focus on quality and service. Strong leadership is essential to delivering on this commitment, and we believe that the quality of our leaders can give us a significant long-term competitive advantage. We want to ensure every current and future leader in Tenet is successful, and we support that through our selection and hiring process and by providing coaching and training to our leaders.

In this regard, we have identified core competencies that will enable a leader to succeed at Tenet, and have defined them within the following five areas critical to performance:

Use Astute Judgment

  • Promotes decisions that are patient-centered (e.g., plans to reduce noise in patient areas at night).
  • Promotes “systems thinking” as a value in the nursing organization. Synthesizes and integrates divergent viewpoints for the good of the organization (e.g., implements shared governance councils).
  • Considers impact of nursing decisions on the healthcare organization as a whole (e.g., reduces falls, pressure ulcers, and other nurse sensitive patient outcomes).
  • Provides leadership in building loyalty and commitment throughout the organization (e.g., builds career development path for high performing staff).
  • Assures that the clinical perspective is included in organizational decisions (e.g., leads work that results in successful JC accreditation).

Shape Strategy

  • Formulates objectives, goals, and specific strategies related to the organization’s mission and vision (e.g. participates in preparing the budget with cost improvements in nursing departments).
  • Promotes a results-oriented environment (e.g., cascades and measures BSC, CQ BSC, and CNO BSC targets).
  • Represents nursing/patient care issues within the organization’s governance and medical staff structures (e.g. actively participates in governing board by presenting a monthly nursing report).
  • Represents nursing/patient care in strategic planning and quality initiatives with the governing body (e.g., presents new ideas and external and internal benchmarks at board meetings).
  • Monitors and evaluates quality through public reported measure (e.g. core measures, nurse sensitive patient outcomes, infection control, VBP risk protection, etc.) in collaboration with the facility DCQI and ICP, as well as national resources.
  • Supports the development of a facility wide patient safety program (e.g. zero never events; reduced falls with injury, reduced facility acquired pressure ulcers, etc.; meets targets on CNO BSC).
  • Designs safe clinical systems, processes, policies and procedures.

Apply Financial Insights

  • Allocates nursing resources based on measurement of patient acuity/care needed (e.g. meets JC conditions of participation for nursing services).
  • Demonstrates sense of urgency in management of labor expense (e.g., meets targets for SWB).

Ensure Collaboration

  • Effectively communicates with all internal and external constituents, including staff, colleagues, and physicians (e.g., holds weekly staff meetings with Department Directors, routinely rounds with physicians).
  • Builds “privileged relationships” with key internal stakeholders (e.g. CEO, RSVP, etc.) and manages organizational relationships in a manner which builds mutual trust and respect. Addresses and manages conflict in a constructive and productive manner (e.g., immediately addresses a conflict situation between a nurse and physician to a positive outcome).
  • Actively networks and creates peer relationships with other internal and external nursing leaders (e.g. leadership role in industry organizations, actively mentors, etc.).

Drive Organizational Success

  • Understands and articulates patient care standards reflected in federal and state regulation, TJC, the state Nurse Practice Act, and organizational policies and procedures.
  • Ensures that the care delivery model, clinical environment of care and related technology is appropriate to needs of caregivers and patients.
  • Supports and embraces role in the adoption of EMR within facility and successfully implements within SWB budget.
  • Recognizes the utility of nursing involvement in the planning, design, choice and implementation of information systems in the practice environment.
  • Monitors and evaluates service indicators (Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Reports) and implements action plans in collaboration with related team members at the facility level (e.g., action to implement formal discharge calls).
  • Actively facilitates Physician satisfaction survey, monitors result and collaborates with facility team members to develop and implement action plans (e.g., action to improve communication with physicians).
  • Monitors and evaluates results of annual Employee Satisfaction Survey and collaborates with related team members to develop and implement action plans (e.g., action to increase recognition).

Develop Organizational Talent

  • Participates in workforce planning to ensure an adequate and competent workforce.
  • Develops succession plan for nursing leadership (e.g., promotion of RN Directors to ACNO and CNO roles).
  • Assumes personal and professional accountability (e.g. meets or exceeds requirements for licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse in the state where employed; maintains required CEUs, actively seeks out career development opportunities, etc.).
  • Supports a non-punitive environment and a reward system for reporting unsafe practices (e.g. improved scores on Annual ARHQ Patient Safety Survey regarding non-punitive environments for reporting unsafe practices).
  • Recruitment and retention strategies, employee development/education program (e.g., meets targets for People pillar for nursing including turnover,


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