VP CNO Shawnee Mission

AdventHealth•Mission, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is a registered professional nurse with comprehensive responsibility for the assessment, problem identification, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and coordination of all processes impacting the quality and quantity of patient care at their assigned facility. The CNO is responsible for employing strategies to foster health promotion, health teaching, and the provision of educational services and resources. The CNO provides consultation to influence identified plans, enhance the abilities of others, and affect change within the organization. Under the CNO’s guidance, evaluation of outcomes is completed to assure the quality of practice delivered by the facility is directed at improving care delivery and population outcomes. The CNO interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and colleagues and collaborates with all levels of nursing staff, interdisciplinary teams, executive leaders, and other stakeholders. The CNO assures the integration of ethical provisions in all areas of practice, integrates research findings into practice, and considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost, and impact of resources utilized in the planning and delivery of nursing and other services. The CNO provides leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession and acts as an advocate for the protections and rights of individuals, families, communities, populations, healthcare providers, nursing, and other professions and institutions and organizations, especially related to health and safety. Adheres to the ANA Code of Ethics, the ANA Scope and Standard for Nursing Practice, and the AONE Nurse Executive Competencies. Actively participates in outstanding customer service and accepts responsibility in maintaining relationships that are equally respectful to all.

Requirements

Current licensure with the State Board of Nursing as a registered professional nurse
Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (BSN) and master’s degree in relevant field.
Ten (10) years of nursing experience
Five (5) years’ experience in leadership roles in comparable health care setting
Demonstrates professional competency in communication and relationship building
Demonstrates a strong understanding and knowledge of the health care environment, including clinical practice and regulatory
Is competent in and maintains expertise in leadership
Is a role model for professionalism
Demonstrates strong business skills

Nice To Haves

Proficient computer skills, particularly in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel
Management training highly desired
National Certification in Nursing Administration

Responsibilities

Provides strategic oversight and guidance for the facility’s patient and workforce safety, ensuring clear goals, effective governance structures, and leadership accountability.
Foster and sustain a facility-wide culture of safety that emphasizes psychological safety, continuous learning from harm and near-miss events, and meaningful engagement of patients, families, and the workforce.
Monitors and educates others in relation to health care policy and interprets the impact of state and federal regulations on nursing in the organization.
Is active in the governance of the organization by presenting patient care issues to the governing body, participating in strategic planning, and representing nursing at the organization’s governing body.
Supports the development and implementation of organization-wide patient safety programs.
Possesses foundational and critical thinking skills that allow them to address ideas, beliefs, or viewpoints of others.
Recognizes one’s own methods of decision making and role of beliefs, values, and inferences.
Uses reflective leadership and provides visionary thinking on issues that impact the healthcare organization.
Values feedback and is a proponent of lifelong learning, is able to learn from successes and failures, and seeks mentorship from respected colleagues.
Promotes system thinking as a value in the nursing organization.
Considers the impact of nursing decisions on the healthcare organization as a whole.
Provides leadership in building loyalty and commitment throughout the organization.
Can synthesize and integrate divergent viewpoints for the good of the organization.
Promotes nursing management as a desirable specialty and assures there is a succession plan for his/her own position.
Actively mentors others into the leadership role.
Acts as a change agent, utilizing change theory to plan for the implementation of organizational change, supports staff during the change, and adapts leadership style to the situations of the change.
Serves as a role model for the mission and values held by AdventHealth and the nursing profession.
Ensures both are embedded in the planning and delivery of patient care services.
Creates an environment that facilitates the team to initiate actions that produce results.
Hold self and others accountable for actions and outcomes.
Creates an environment in which others are setting expectations and holding each other accountable.
Creates an environment in which professional and personal growth is an expectation.
Integrates high ethical standards and core values into everyday work activities.
Teaches and mentors others to routinely utilized evidence based data and results.
Advocates the perspective that patient care is the core of the organization’s work.
Ensures that nurses are actively involved in decisions that affect their practice.
Participates in at least one professional organization and supports/encourages others to participate in a professional organization.
Ensures licensure compliance, orientation, training, and competency of staff.
Can articulate business models for healthcare organizations and fundamental concepts of economics.
Analyzes financial statements, manages financial resources, and educates team members on financial implications of patient care decisions.
Reads and interprets benchmarking, financial, and occupancy data.
Participates in workforce planning and employment decisions, champions a diverse workforce, interprets and evaluates employee satisfaction/quality of work surveys taking action as needed to assure a positive outcome.
Identifies clinical and leadership skills necessary for performing job-related tasks.
Selects top talent, assesses job candidate skills, and matches organizational needs will appropriate skill sets.
Identifies future skill sets needed to remain competitive.
Analyzes market data in relation to supply and demand and manages resources to assure appropriate compensation.
Develops and implements recruitment and retention strategies.
Formulates objectives, goals, and specific strategies related to mission and vision.
Understands what needs to be measured in order to balance the financial perspective.
Measures and analyzes performance from the learning, growth, business process, customer, and financial perspective.
Develops marketing strategies and integrates marketing and communication strategies.
Utilizes hospital database management, decision support, and expert systems programs to access information and analyze data from disparate sources for use in planning for patient care processes and systems.
Recognizes and assures the utility of nursing involvement in planning, designing, choice, and implementation of information systems in the practice environment.
Identifies and eliminates sexual harassment, workplace violence, and verbal/physical abuse.
Formulates programs to enhance work-life balance.
Participates in the development of bioterrorism, biohazard, and disaster readiness plans.