Chief Nursing Officer - CNO - Adult Services

OU Health•Oklahoma City, OK

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About The Position

The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is a senior executive responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of nursing care delivery across Adult Services, ensuring high-quality patient care, compliance with regulatory requirements and efficient operations. Ensures compliance with patient care quality standards and oversees the planning, organization and direction of the overall nursing and direct patient care services. The CNO reports to the system Chief Nurse Executive and has a matrix reporting structure with accountability of operational performance to the President of Adult Services. The CNO collaborates with the Associate Chief Medical Officer and President of Adult Services to implement and evaluate the outcomes of strategic initiatives to improve quality, safety, efficiency and engagement that support overall financial resiliency of the enterprise. The triad leadership team partners closely with our academic partner to ensure alignment of services and clinical care delivery across the continuum of their respective services. As a member of the Nurse Executive Team, this role supports standardization and evaluation of clinical operations to establish desired nursing outcomes relevant to professional nursing practice system-wide. As a member of the Adult Services leadership team, the CNO is expected to demonstrate transparency, integrity and consistency in all interactions and to work collaboratively with peers, supporting them as well as holding them accountable as members of the leadership team.

Requirements

Master's of Science degree in nursing
Currently licensed as a registered professional nurse in the state in which he or she practices, in accordance with law and regulation
10 to 12 years of progressive leadership experience in multiple types of health care organizations and/or health care systems.
5 years in a senior leadership role in one or more of the areas that are under the direction of this position, preferably in a large, academic health care system.
Skill at communicating with impact to effectively engage others and achieve desired results.
Skill in recognizing the broad or long-term implications of business decisions and plans.
Skilled in effectively handling multiple conflicting assignments, demands, and priorities with great attention to detail.
Skill in creating written material that has a logical flow of thoughts and ideas.
Skill in generating novel or unusual ideas and solutions in response to business issues and problems.
Willingness to develop solutions or consider proposals that challenge status quo assumptions or pro forma operations and remove barriers and enable success of prioritized solutions.
Willingness to be proactive and work at connecting with and building cooperative relationships with others.
Willingness to focus on employee development through exposure, experiences, and feedback.
Skill in identifying assignments designed to stretch and develop others' capabilities.

Nice To Haves

PhD or Doctoral degree in nursing or related field
Board-certification in health care or nursing executive practice
Work experience in an academic multi-hospital system or integrated delivery system.
Broad-based knowledge of the full scope of operations in an accredited academic medical center or primary teaching hospital of comparable size and scope to OU Health.