Director Nursing, Emergency Department, Spalding Medical Center

Wellstar Health System • Griffin, GA

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About The Position

The Director of Nursing for the Emergency Department at Spalding Medical Center is a registered professional nurse who provides leadership and management of the Emergency Department through the application of advanced competencies in communication; job knowledge, professionalism and business skills. This leader is a member of the chief nursing officer's administrative team and may serve as their designee for assigned responsibilities. The role reports to the VP, CNO Patient Care Services and demonstrates own leadership to effectively partner with nursing leadership, hospital vice presidents, medical staff and other departments to create a center of excellence for their specialty service and to meet or exceed the hospital's mission, vision and goals. This leader administers to two or more cost centers with around 75 FTEs in a 32-bed Emergency Department for a 160-bed licensed acute care hospital. The Director of Nursing handles a budget less than 80 million dollars. The Director of Nursing provides direct leadership of one Nurse Manager, one Trauma Manager and 6 Charge Nurses. They are a standard bearer and holds leaders and staff accountable for the delivery of safe, quality care and services through effective communication, employment of transformation leadership, managing by walking around, and instilling an accountability-based practice setting. The Director of Nursing serves as sponsor for performance improvement; inspires others to seek opportunities to grow and improve their performance and successfully applies lean and evidenced based practice to ensure all targets pillar outcomes are achieved. This leader employs all safety first interventions and as the chief safety officer creates a culture of safety for his/her service line through the development/use of these skills by other leaders, physicians and staff. They effectively use data and technology to make decisions and proactively mitigates unnecessary risks for their area of responsibility, providing instruction and mentoring for assigned leaders to be able to do the same. This leader ensures that nurse managers and staff create a desirable, safe work environment that enables the organization to meet or exceed all licensure, regulatory and accreditation standards. They model the way by fostering exemplary skills in attaining effective teamwork and collaboration with physicians, staff, patients and other departments. It is expected that all nurse leaders are licensed, knowledgeable and uphold the practice of nursing as outlined by the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act and implements the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards put forth by the American Nurses Association. As a member of the patient services team, it is expected the individual upholds the voice of the patient, system policies and procedures while supporting service excellence goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in nursing (BSN) from accredited nursing schools required.
• Master's Degree in Nursing required or in related field.
• Must be enrolled in a graduate program with completion expected within 12 months of hire date.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Registered Nurse; includes three (3) years of progressive operational leadership.
• Experience managing department-level budget and metrics strongly preferred.
• Should possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and relationship building.
• Knowledge of the health care environment and leadership skills.
• Must be a continuous learner who understands health care financing.

Responsibilities

• Holds self and staff to the highest professional standards and ethics ensuring corporate compliance standards are met by leaders and staff.
• Is an active member of one's professional community and serves as a role model for professional nursing practice and nursing leadership.
• Successfully works with the nurse manager to employ change management strategies and instills in self and others the curiosity to explore new knowledge and ideas.
• Engages leaders in decision-making and partners with others to promote patient-centered care and service excellence.
• Serves to support the nurse managers to promote the effective running of the care delivery system.
• Analyzes and manages financial resources; uses lean and other quality skills to reduce waste and improve performance.
• Hires and develops an engaged team of leaders and staff that raises each other's performance to achieve top percentile standing in all pillar goals.
• Effectively communicates to diverse audiences on nursing, health care and organizational issues.
• Establishes partnerships by employing strong relationship building skills with all hospital leaders and medical staff.
• Creates opportunities for self and leaders to grow professionally and implements a desirable workplace to recruit and retain talented leaders and staff.
• Seeks opportunities to advance knowledge and skills through formal and informal education offerings.
• Represents the organization positively to the community, building credibility and willingness to serve on committees and taskforces.
• Effectively identifies areas of improvement of leaders and clinical systems and sponsors projects to improve the same.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree