Chief Nurse Executive

Presbyterian Healthcare Services•Socorro, NM

49d•Onsite

About The Position

The Chief Nurse Executive (CNE) is responsible for developing a highly effective, accountable, and professional nursing and clinical community focused on exceptional patient and employee experiences. This role aims to achieve high reliability in clinical outcomes and meet budgetary/financial performance targets for assigned areas. The CNE is accountable for ongoing regulatory readiness, collaborating to ensure safe and effective nurse staffing, and integrating with key areas to optimize operations, patient placement, and resource utilization. This leader champions the patient experience, driving results, ensuring patient and family involvement, timely complaint resolution, and fostering an environment where the Presbyterian Promise and excellence are the norm. The position provides leadership for nursing departments, new program development, continuous improvement projects, and supports cross-departmental initiatives.

Requirements

Masters Degree required in nursing or related field.
Six to eight years of progressive leadership in nursing and clinical services in complex clinical environments.
Active RN license required, RN-NM.
Must possess both clinical and managerial skills.
Competencies to operate within a complex environment where the position holder manages through the use of influence skills rather than traditional hierarchy skills.
Demonstrated results of being able to make and sustain changes in a clinical leadership role.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work across diverse levels within the organization (professional and support staff).
Diagnosis of organizational issues.
Creativity to propose solutions and coach organizational members to reach desired outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Doctor of Nursing Practice degree desired.

Responsibilities

Champion and engage in interprofessional collaboration among nursing, medical, and allied health professionals to achieve optimal patient care service outcomes and effective integration of care.
Lead efforts to maintain ongoing regulatory readiness through process improvement, measurement, and policy oversight.
Ensure recruitment, orientation, education, certification, communication, and retention needs of qualified nursing and support staff are met through successful management of resources.
Create and continually promote a positive and collaborative climate that encourages strong direct care nursing/staff engagement in decisions influencing unit, department, and hospital objectives.
Ensure a practice environment that enables the implementation of evidence-based nursing best practices consistent throughout the organization and aligned with the organization's broader high reliability quality improvement plan.
Support the Shared Governance Model and Partners in Care committee within the facility through planning, improvement, and implementation of their work.
Prepare, monitor, and document adherence to budget for nursing and support services.
Evaluate nurse staffing to ensure adequacy and safety, and recommend improvements to the staffing model.
Continuously improve patient care services through innovative service enhancements, exploration of developmental opportunities, coordination of initiatives across multiple departments, benchmarking, market and competitor analysis, and understanding quality and cost drivers.
Actively lead performance improvement initiatives and monitor nursing-sensitive quality and safety indicators.
Evaluate and improve the quality of nursing care provided; redesign and improve models of care that are integrated with the care team and deploy; monitor effectiveness.
Provide input for priorities, timing, and methods to ensure training and development of nursing personnel for routine and ongoing validation of competency for new processes and required skills.
Support, coach, and mentor others to succeed with change; develop leadership capacity of direct reports and teams.
Create a positive, collaborative work environment and serve as a resource for other leaders regarding nursing communication and integration issues.
Understand, develop, and exercise political acumen in internal and external relationships to strengthen the contribution of nursing in the organization and system.
Maintain relationships with physicians and administration in the coordination and planning of activities related to the nursing services organization.
Participate in the planning and development of services, expansion plans, and growth in partnership with the facility Hospital Chief Executive and Medical Director.
Actively participate in implementing the organization's strategic plan at the facility level.
Provide leadership and active involvement in nursing recognition events; represent PHS in relevant external professional and community activities.
Be accountable for the integration of services for clinical quality, patient safety, and regulatory compliance within PMG clinics and enhancing a clinical environment that is patient-centered.
Partner with PMG nursing and leaders to ensure alignment with the hospital's goals and objectives.