Director Nursing

Description

THE ROLE

The Nursing Director is accountable for the provision and quality of critical care services at the facility level, in support of Providence Health & Services System and Regional goals. This includes strategically ensuring a balance of optimal and efficient patient care; staff, patient, and physician satisfaction; and cooperative partnerships with other organizational departments and professional groups. With a constant focus on patient-centeredness and staff and patient safety, the Nursing Director creates and maintains standards and systems for care delivery at their facility. These systems of care delivery promote evidence-based practice and are designed to support the management of productivity targets within a context of constant change in patient volumes, patient acuity, and available resources. Through leading inpatient care delivery and planning strategically, consistently supports efficient and effective patient care services, and achieving organizational and system goals. This includes advancing the strategic vision and goals of the Oregon Nursing Center of Excellence. Constructively manages change and promotes a team-based approach.

This Director oversees: 28 bed CICU, 16 bed ICU, 16 bed NCCU and 28 bed IMCU.

5 direct reports: 4 Manager's and 1 Clinical Nurse Specialist. Approx 275 FTE's.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

1. Keeping patients at center of all decisions.
2. Insuring staff and patient safety.
3. Maintaining continuous communication to focus strategic goals and priorities throughout organization.
4. Balancing quality and financial outcomes for all aspects of nursing care delivery.
5. Constructively managing constant change.
6. Balancing organizational autonomy and creativity with clinical excellence reflecting evidence based practice and care standard.
7. Developing strategies for implementation of needed technologies supporting clinical practice.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• INTEGRATING MISSION AND VALUES
• Identifies need for, and acts as necessary to advocate for systemic change to ensure the Mission will be viable in the future with decreasing resources.
• Role models Core Values in actions, decision, and language.
• Promotes an environment of hope, healing, and hospitality.
• Sets standards and expectations for caring and trusting behaviors for all levels of nursing staff.
• Acts as lay leader to ensure the heritage of the sponsoring religious community is told in the organization.
• Acts on opportunities to extend the Mission and values other Catholic Health Care into the larger community/society.
• PLANNING AND ORGANIZING
• Focuses organization on top critical priorities.
• Anticipates future trends and consequences. Can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans to address future needs.
• Encourages creative approaches.
• Eliminated barriers for success.
• IMPROVING QUALITY
• Assures the needs and voice of the patient as the customer are heard by consistent integration of nursing in the development and achievement of organizational goals.
• Advocates for public policy improving health care and nursing practice.
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with customer groups by gaining trust and respect.
• Champions patient and staff safety at all levels in the organization.
• Reduces variation and error through implementation of evidence-based practice models.
• Continuously improves outcomes through empowerment and management of data by promoting nursing research.
• Plans for and supports the implementation of technology to support clinical practice.
• LEADING
• Establishes and maintains a safe, supportive, and healthy environment to practice nursing throughout the region.
• Creates and develops high performance teams when needed.
• Gives team members appropriate responsibility, authority, freedom, and support to assure teams wins and successes.
• Provides individuals information so that they can make accurate decisions in a timely manner on a regular basis.
• Fosters open and direct communication that encourages dialog and supports oppositional thinking.
• Employs excellent listening skills.
• Steps up to conflict and is able to find common ground to achieve cooperation with minimum discord.
• Creates and communicates a compelling vision of Providence Oregon Nursing that reflects the present and the future. Inspires ownership of the vision that is inclusive of all staff at all levels.
• Attracts the best talent to the organization.
• Advances and embraces diversity in both staff and patient populations.
• Clearly assigns responsibility and authority for tasks and decisions.
• Sets clear objectives and measures.
• Holds people accountable for results.
• DEMONSTRATING BUSINESS EFFECTIVENESS
• Understands the close connection between Finance and Human Resources in attaining quality clinical outcomes. Partners with peers from these areas to provide infrastructure to reach clinical goals of excellence.
• Understands how people and organizations function and is able to maneuver through complex political situations effectively. Manages up in support others throughout the organization.
• Provides leadership on strategic direction and resource allocation committees and councils that affect nursing practice throughout the region.
• Assures compliance with all professional, regulatory, and legal standards in development of organizational policy.
• Knowledgeable about current and possible future policies, practices, trends, and information affecting health care.
• Actively participates in decision making with leaders for all areas of management, finance, medical staff, and clinical focus areas to create processes and structures that support the Mission and goals of Providence Health System.
• Demonstrates the ability to:
• Make decisions based on fact and identified need which also support Catholic social and ethical teachings.
• Make quick but sound decisions when required by a situation without sacrificing decision quality.
• To handle risk and uncertainty by making decisions without all facts as necessary.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• Master's Degree in Nursing, or related field
• Upon hire: Oregon Registered Nurse License (Vendor Managed)
• Upon hire: National Certification from ANA or Professional Organization in relevant field of clinical expertise (preferred)
• 6 years of experience in progressive leadership roles
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite products, electronic communication systems
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, and effectively problem solve
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally with staff, management, physicians, and the public including formal presentations
• Ability to direct multiple and complex processes simultaneously
• Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with other healthcare team members
• Standard office and clinical equipment appropriate for setting.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.

Requsition ID: 326634

Company: Providence Jobs

Job Category: Nursing-Patient Facing

Job Function: Nursing

Job Schedule: Full time

Job Shift: Day

Career Track: Leadership

Department: 5002 PSVMC NURSING ADMIN

Address: OR Portland 9205 SW Barnes Rd

Work Location: Providence St Vincent Medical Ctr-Portland

Workplace Type: On-site

Pay Range: $74.22 - $119.48

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

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