Chief Nursing Officer, Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin

American Addiction Centers • Milledgeville, GA

1d • $74 - $118

About The Position

Chief Nursing Officer, Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin Department: 10010 Navicent Health Medical Center: Baldwin - Administration Status: Full time Benefits Eligible: Yes Hours Per Week: 40 Schedule Details/Additional Information: Works Mon-Fri with some additional shift on nights and weekends as needed Pay Range $73.90 - $118.25 Major Responsibilities: Quality of Practice: The CNO I systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, nursing services administration and the delivery of services. The CNO I leads initiatives related to nursing and model of care, nurse engagement, improvement of quality outcomes in collaboration with senior leaders and other key stakeholders. The CNO I assures special emphasis on patient experience, the nurse patient relationship and performance accountability Education: The CNO I attains knowledge and competency that reflects current nursing practice. This includes engaging in self-assessment, providing development opportunities, and serving as a resource for Directors, Managers, and teammates. Professional Practice Evaluation: The CNO I evaluates one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations. The CNO I promotes a positive practice environment by promoting ANCC Magnet standards and principles. Collegiality: The CNO I interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and school personnel as colleagues. The CNO I leads and mentors a multidisciplinary work force which provides clinically competent efficient and compassionate care and services in an everchanging work environment. Collaboration: The CNO I collaborates with all levels of nursing staff, interdisciplinary teams, executive leaders, and other stakeholders. The CNO I participates and collaborates with Senior Leadership in policy development and planning as well as policy formulation and decision-making involving staff such as shared governance. Ethics: The CNO I integrates ethical provisions in all areas of practice. The CNO I assures compliance with regulatory and professional standards as well as integrity in business practices. Research: The CNO I integrates research findings into practice. Assures the development and implementation of an effective, ongoing program to measure, assess and improve the quality of care, treatment and services delivered based on research and evidence-based findings. Resource Utilization: The CNO I considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost, and impact on practice in the planning and delivery of nursing services. The CNO I is accountable for the planning, development, and implementation of an approved operational and capital budget for the nursing division and other areas of responsibility in alignment with institutional goals. The CNO I ensures that procedures and controls are employed by each department and analyzes, develops, and monitors corrective action plans to meet established fiscal goals. Leadership: The CNO I provides leadership in the Professional practice and the profession and is responsible for the selection, development of the managers/directors. Reviews and evaluates the performance of managers/directors and provides current leadership guidance to improve their effectiveness, efficiency, and growth. Advocacy: The CNO I advocates for the protections and rights of individuals, families, communities, populations, healthcare providers, nursing and other professions especially related to health and safety. The nurse administrator will foster a non-discriminatory inclusive leadership environment at Atrium Health and demonstrate respect for diversity in all interactions.

Requirements

• Current RN license or temporary license as a Registered Nurse in the state in which you work and reside or if declaring a National License Compact (NLC) state as your primary state of residency, meet the licensure requirements in your home state; or for Non-National License Compact states, current RN license or temporary license as a Registered Nurse Petitioner required in the state where the RN works.
• Appropriate professional leadership certification is required within 1 year of eligibility for professional certification exam.
• Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing required
• MSN required within 3 months of hire. If undergraduate degree is BSN a Master’s Degree from a health-related program or MBA is acceptable. Must have MSN if undergraduate degree is not BSN.
• 5 years of related progressive nursing management/leadership experience required.
• Communication and Relationship Building
• EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
• Make oral presentations to diverse audiences on:
• Nursing
• Health care topics
• Organizational issues
• Produce written materials for diverse audiences on:
• Nursing
• Health care topics
• Organizational issues
• Facilitate group discussions
• Demonstrate skill in interpersonal communication
• RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
• Build collaborative relationships
• Exhibit effective conflict resolution skills
• Create a trusting environment by:
• Following through on promises and concerns
• Establishing mechanisms to follow-up on commitments
• Balancing the concerns of individuals with organizational goals and objectives
• Engaging staff and others in decision-making
• Communicating in a way as to maintain credibility and relationships
• INFLUENCING BEHAVIORS
• Assert views in non-threatening, non-judgmental ways
• Create a shared vision
• Facilitate consensus building
• Inspire desired behaviors and manage undesired behaviors
• Achieve outcomes through engagement of stakeholders
• Promote decisions that are patient-centered
• Apply situational leadership skills
• DIVERSITY
• Establish an environment that values diversity (e.g. age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, culture)
• Establish cultural competency in the workforce
• Incorporate cultural beliefs into care delivery
• Provide an environment conducive to opinion sharing, exploration of ideas and achievement of outcomes
• COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
• Represent the organization to non-health care constituents within the community
• Serve as a resource to community and business leaders regarding nursing and health care
• Represent the community perspective in the decision-making process within the organization/system
• Represent nursing to the media
• Serve on community-based boards, advisory groups, and task forces
• MEDICAL/STAFF RELATIONSHIPS
• Build credibility with physicians as a champion for patient care, quality and the professional practice of nursing
• Confront and address inappropriate or disruptive behavior towards patients and staff
• Represent nursing at medical executive committee and other department/medical staff committees
• Collaborate with medical staff leaders and other disciplines in determining needed patient care service lines
• Collaborate with physicians and other disciplines to develop patient care protocols, policies and procedures
• Collaborate to determine patient care equipment and facility needs
• Use medical staff mechanisms to address physician clinical performance issues
• Address and model appropriate conflict resolution
• Create opportunities for physicians and nurses to engage in professional dialogue
• ACADEMIC RELATIONSHIPS
• Determine current and future supply and demand for nurses to meet the care delivery needs
• Identify educational needs of existing and potential nursing staff
• Collaborate with nursing programs to provide required resources
• Collaborate with nursing programs in evaluating quality of graduating clinicians and develop mechanisms to enhance this quality
• Serve on academic advisory councils
• Collaborate in nursing research and translate evidence into practice
• Collaborate to investigate care delivery models across the continuum
• Create academic partnerships to ensure a qualified workforce for the future
• Knowledge of the Health Care Environment
• CLINICAL PRACTICE KNOWLEDGE
• Demonstrate knowledge of current nursing practice and the roles and functions of patient care team members
• Communication patient care standards as established by accreditation, regulatory and quality agencies
• Ensure compliance with the State Nurse Practice Act, State Board of Nursing regulations, state and federal regulatory agency standards, federal labor standards and policies of the organization
• Adhere to professional association standards of nursing practice
• Ensure that written organizational clinical policies and procedures are reviewed and updated in accordance with evidence-based practice
• Integrate bioethical and legal dimensions into clinical and management decision-making
• Ensure protection of human subject rights and safety in clinical research
• DELIVERY MODELS / WORK DESIGN
• Demonstrate current knowledge of patient care delivery systems across the continuum
• Describe various delivery systems and age-appropriate patient care models and the advantages/disadvantages of each
• Assess the effectiveness of delivery models
• Develop new delivery models
• Participate in the design of facilities
• HEALTH CARE ECONOMICS AND POLICY
• Understand regulation and payment issues that affect an organization’s finances
• Describe individual organization’s payer mix, CMI, and benchmark database
• Align care delivery models and staff performance with key safety and economic drivers (e.g., value-based purchasing, bundled payment)
• Take action when opportunities exist to adjust operations to respond effectively to environmental changes in economic elements
• Use knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations that affect the provision of patient care (e.g., tort reform, malpractice/negligence, reimbursement)
• Participate in legislative process on health care issues through such mechanisms as membership in professional organization and personal contact with officials
• Educate patient care team members on the legislative process, the regulatory process and methods for influencing both
• Interpret impact of legislation at the state and federal level on nursing and health care organizations
• GOVERNANCE
• Use knowledge of the role of the governing body of the organization in the following areas:
• Fiduciary responsibilities
• Credentialing
• Performance management
• Represent patient care issues to the governing body
• Participate in strategic planning and quality initiatives with the governing body
• Interact with and educate the organization’s board members regarding health care and the value of nursing care
• Represent nursing at the organizations’ board meetings
• Represent other disciplines that the organization’s board meetings
• EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE/OUTCOME MEASUREMENT AND RESEARCH
• Use data and other sources of evidence to inform decision making
• Use evidence for establishment of standards, practices, and patient care models in the organization
• Design feedback mechanisms by which to adapt practice based upon outcomes from current processes
• Design and interpret outcome measures
• Disseminate research findings to patient care team members
• Allocate nursing resources based on measurement of patient acuity/care needed
• Monitor and address nurse sensitive outcomes and satisfaction indicators
• PATIENT SAFETY
• Support the development of an organization-wide patient safety program
• PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS/ METRICS
• Articulate the organization’s performance improvement program and goals
• Use evidence-based metrics to align patient outcomes with the organization’s goals and objectives
• Apply high reliability concepts for the organization
• Establish 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
• RISK MANAGEMENT
• Identify areas of risk/liability
• Facilitate staff education on risk management and compliance issues
• Develop systems that result in prompt reporting of potential liability by staff at all levels
• Identify early warning predictability indications for errors
• Correct areas of potential liability
• Ensure compliance by staff with all required standards
• Leadership
• FOUNDATIONAL THINKING SKILLS
• Address ideas, beliefs, or viewpoints that should be given serious consideration
• Recognize one’s own method of decision making and role of beliefs, values, and inferences
• Apply critical analysis to organizational issues after a review of the evidence
• Maintain curiosity and an eagerness to explore new knowledge and ideas
• Promote nursing leadership as both a science and an art
• Demonstrate reflective practice and an understanding that all leadership begins from within
• Provide visionary thinking on issues that impact the health care organization
• PERSONAL JOURNEY DISCIPLINES
• Learn from setbacks and failures as well as successes
• SYSTEMS THINKING
• Use knowledge of classic and contemporary systems thinking in problem solving and decision making
• Provide visionary thinking on issues that impact the healthcare organization
• Recognize the contribution of mental models on behavior
• Promote systems thinking as an expectation of leaders and staff
• Consider the impact of nursing decisions on the healthcare organization as a whole
• Use resources from other paradigms
• SUCCESSION PLANNING
• Develop a leadership succession plan
• Promote nursing leadership as a desirable specialty
• Mentor current and future nurse leaders
• Establish mechanisms that provide for early identification and mentoring of staff with leadership potential
• Develop a workforce analysis plan and implement strategies to ensure an adequate and qualified workforce
• CHANGE MANAGEMENT
• Adapt leadership style to situation needs
• Use change theory to implement change
• Serve as a change leader
• Professionalism
• PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY
• Hold self and others accountable for mutual professional expectations and outcomes
• Contribute to the advancement of the profession
• Participate in and contribute to professional organizations
• Demonstrate and promote leader and staff participation in professional organizations
• Promote leader and staff participation in lifelong learning and educational achievement
• Achieve and maintain professional certification for self
• Promote professional certification for staff
• Role model standards of professional practice (clinical, education, and leadership) for colleagues and constituents
• FOUNDATIONAL THINKING SKILLS
• Coach others in developing their career plans
• Seek input and mentorship from others in career planning and development
• Develop a personal and professional career plan and measure progress
• Solicit feedback about personal strengths and weaknesses
• Act on feedback about personal strengths and weaknesses
• ETHICS
• Uphold ethical principles and corporate compliance standards
• Hold self and staff accountable to comply with ethical standards of practice
• Discuss, resolve, and learn from ethical dilemmas
• ADVOCACY
• Promote clinical perspective in organizational decisions
• Involve nurses and other staff in decisions that affect their practice
• Represent the perspective of patients and families
• Advocate for optimal health care in the community
• Business Skills
• FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
• Develop and manage an annual operating budget and long-term capital expenditure plan
• Use business models for health care organizations and apply fundamental concepts of economics
• Interpret financial statements
• Manage financial resources
• Ensure the use of accurate charging mechanisms
• Educate patient care team members on financial implications of patient care decisions
• Participate in the negotiation and monitoring of contract compliance (e.g., physicians, service providers)
• HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
• Ensure development of educational programs to foster workforce competencies and development goals
• Participate in workforce planning and employment decisions
• Use corrective discipline to mitigate workplace behavior problems
• Evaluate the results of employee satisfaction/quality of work environment surveys
• Support reward and recognition programs to enhance performance
• Formulate programs to enhance work-life balance
• Interpret and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory guidelines
• Provide education regarding components of collective bargaining
• Promote healthful work environments
• Address sexual harassment, workplace violence, verbal and physical abuse
• Implement ergonomically sound work environments to prevent worker injury and fatigue
• Develop and implement emergency preparedness plans
• Analyze market data in relation to supply and demand
• Contribute to the development of compensation programs
• Develop and evaluate recruitment onboarding, and retention strategies
• Develop and implement an outcome-based performance management program
• Develop and implement programs to reeducate the workforce for new roles
• STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
• Create the operational objectives, goals and specific strategies required to achieve the strategic outcome
• Conduct SWOT and Gap analyses
• Defend the business case for nursing
• Utilize the balanced scoreboard analysis to manage change
• Evaluate achievement of operational objectives and goals
• Identify marketing opportunities
• Develop marketing strategies in collaboration with marking experts
• Promote the image of nursing and the organization through effective media relations
• INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
• Use technology to support improvement of clinical and financial performance
• Collaborate to prioritize for the establishment of information technology resources
• Participate in evaluation of enabling technology in practice settings
• Use data management systems for decision making
• Identify technological trends, issues, and new developments as they apply to patient care
• Demonstrate skills in assessing data integrity and quality
• Provide leadership for adoption and implementation of information systems

Nice To Haves

• Doctoral Degree DNP/PhD preferred

Responsibilities

• Quality of Practice: The CNO I systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, nursing services administration and the delivery of services.
• The CNO I leads initiatives related to nursing and model of care, nurse engagement, improvement of quality outcomes in collaboration with senior leaders and other key stakeholders.
• The CNO I assures special emphasis on patient experience, the nurse patient relationship and performance accountability
• Education: The CNO I attains knowledge and competency that reflects current nursing practice.
• This includes engaging in self-assessment, providing development opportunities, and serving as a resource for Directors, Managers, and teammates.
• Professional Practice Evaluation: The CNO I evaluates one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
• The CNO I promotes a positive practice environment by promoting ANCC Magnet standards and principles.
• Collegiality: The CNO I interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and school personnel as colleagues.
• The CNO I leads and mentors a multidisciplinary work force which provides clinically competent efficient and compassionate care and services in an everchanging work environment.
• Collaboration: The CNO I collaborates with all levels of nursing staff, interdisciplinary teams, executive leaders, and other stakeholders.
• The CNO I participates and collaborates with Senior Leadership in policy development and planning as well as policy formulation and decision-making involving staff such as shared governance.
• Ethics: The CNO I integrates ethical provisions in all areas of practice.
• The CNO I assures compliance with regulatory and professional standards as well as integrity in business practices.
• Research: The CNO I integrates research findings into practice.
• Assures the development and implementation of an effective, ongoing program to measure, assess and improve the quality of care, treatment and services delivered based on research and evidence-based findings.
• Resource Utilization: The CNO I considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost, and impact on practice in the planning and delivery of nursing services.
• The CNO I is accountable for the planning, development, and implementation of an approved operational and capital budget for the nursing division and other areas of responsibility in alignment with institutional goals.
• The CNO I ensures that procedures and controls are employed by each department and analyzes, develops, and monitors corrective action plans to meet established fiscal goals.
• Leadership: The CNO I provides leadership in the Professional practice and the profession and is responsible for the selection, development of the managers/directors.
• Reviews and evaluates the performance of managers/directors and provides current leadership guidance to improve their effectiveness, efficiency, and growth.
• Advocacy: The CNO I advocates for the protections and rights of individuals, families, communities, populations, healthcare providers, nursing and other professions especially related to health and safety.
• The nurse administrator will foster a non-discriminatory inclusive leadership environment at Atrium Health and demonstrate respect for diversity in all interactions.

Benefits

• Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:
• Compensation Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job Incentive pay for select positions Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
• Benefits and more Paid Time Off programs Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs Educational Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees