Job Description
DescriptionSummary:
Manages the nursing services and staff for a department; ensures quality and
full compliance with relevant policies and standards.
Responsibilities:
• Implementing and
monitoring programs and practices for the delivery of safe and efficient quality nursing care for
patients and their families
• Ensuring consistent application of nursing services policies and
standards throughout the organization
• Monitoring patient outcomes and quality and effectiveness
of nursing care
• Overseeing performance of teams; identifying and addressing staff training and
development needs
• Apprising medical staff, department heads, and administrators in matters
related to nursing service and strategies
Standard I: Financial Management
• Recognizes the
impact of reimbursement on revenue
• Understands the relationship between values-based purchasing
and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement
• Creates, monitors, and analyzes a budget;
explaining variance
• Conducts ongoing evaluation of productivity, forecasting future revenue and
expenses
• Documents capital appropriations and project authorizations
Standard II. Human
Resources Management
• Evaluates and specifies the critical resources required to accomplish the
team's objectives
• Initiates requests for required resources based on staff competency with
patient acuity
• Allocates team resources responsibly and equitably within the scope of labor
laws
• Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison
• Discovers opportunities to
improve resource utilization
• Implements changes in role consistent with scope of practice
•
Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow
• Resolves
conflicts in a wide variety of situations, such as workload allocation, schedule overlap etc.
•
Adjusts management and personal style to fit the needs of different people and different
situations
• Explores motivational factors and tailors motivational efforts to individual needs and
situations for the department
• Conducts evaluations on personnel performance at the work place and
recommends improvement plans
• Coaches others on operating personnel management systems and their
processes
Standard III. Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors
• Situation
Management
• Identifies issues that require immediate attention
• Applies principles of crisis
management to handle situations as necessary
• Manages conflict
• Promotes team dynamics
•
Mentors and coaches staff
• Promotes Professional Management
• Promotes and encourages stress
management
• Encourages participation in professional action
• principles of self-awareness
•
Fosters a healthy work environment
• Diversity
• Understands the components of cultural competence
as they apply to the
workforce
• Maintains an environment of fairness and processes to support
it
• Capitalizes on differences to foster highly effective work groups
Standard VI. Performance
Improvement/Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations
• Assesses customer and patient satisfaction
while developing and implementing strategies to address satisfaction issues
• Provides direct
service to internal or external customers
• Facilitates the resolution of customer problems,
issues, or concerns
• Monitors and promotes workplace safety requirements resulting in positive
patient outcomes
• Applies systems thinking knowledge as an approach to analysis and
decision-making
• Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement
activities
• Provides evidence-based nursing care
• Promotes and communicates patient information
effectively across the continuum of care
Standard V. Leadership
• Serves as a leader of patient
care
• Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free
rein, etc.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, influence, determination, integrity,
confidence
• Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace
events
• Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate and attain desired behaviors; increases
productivity
• Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transformational, and
associated techniques
• Applies techniques of “action learning” to problem solve and personally
reflect on
decisions
Clinical Performance Improvement
• Shares experiences with process
performance improvements across multiple areas
• Recognizes recurring and difficult problems and
explores new or innovative solutions
• Leverages technology to facilitate the sharing of clinical
performance or outcomes data
• Compares and contrasts different approaches for performance
improvement; highlights pros and cons
• Creates mechanism for ensuring quality and performance
measures are understood and valued by nursing staff
• Consults on and coaches on developing
business cases to justify improvement initiatives
Clinical Policies and Standards
• Monitors different types of clinical practice to ensure compliance
with standards
• Evaluates existing and evolving standards and procedures and their impact on the
organization
• Informs others on advanced clinical standards and policies across medical
specialties
• Collaborates with other functions in establishing and documenting joint standards
•
Participates in the development of clinical policies and practices
• Develops control and
monitoring mechanisms for clinical policies adherence
Healthcare Policy and Ethics Compliance
•
Shares experiences with addressing diverse problems in healthcare policy compliance
• Demonstrates
best practices for dealing with complex compliance or non-compliance situations
• Guides others in
making correct decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas
• Designs or revises organizational
practices and procedures to ensure compliance with policies
• Supports and coaches on mechanisms
that encourage attention to compliance issues; all clinical activities
• Participates in
translating policy changes into operational programs and services
Healthcare Regulatory
Environment
• Implements programs as needed to comply with diverse healthcare laws or
regulations
• Monitors regulatory compliance of all healthcare practices to ensure no violations
•
Evaluates key aspects of pending healthcare regulations and legislation that may impact company
•
Provides recommendations and implements solutions to existing and potential legal problems
• Shares
main considerations and issues related to laws and regulations in the implementation of healthcare
practices
• Collaborates and communicates with all departments of healthcare
organization for the preparation for external audits.
Requirements:
A. Education/Skills
·
Bachelor's Degree
B. Experience
· Minimum of 3-5 years of clinical patient care experience in a
relevant setting
· Minimum of 2 years of healthcare leadership
C. Licenses, Registrations, or
Certifications
· RN License in state of employment or compact
· BLS
Work Type:
Full
Time
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Additional Information:
- Specialty: RN
- Location: 1275 Marvin Hancock DriveJasper, Texas 75951
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About the Company:
CHRISTUS Health is an international Catholic, faith-based, not-for-profit health system comprised of
more than 600 services and facilities, including more than 60 hospitals and long-term care
facilities, 350 clinics and outpatient centers, and dozens of other health ministries and
ventures.
Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in Houston and San Antonio and
the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, the mission of CHRISTUS Health is to extend the healing
ministry of Jesus Christ.
To support our healthcare ministry, CHRISTUS Health employs approximately
45,000 Associates and has more than 15,000 physicians on staff who provide care and support for
patients. CHRISTUS Health is listed among the top ten largest Catholic health systems in the United
States.
EXTENDING THE HEALING MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST
We are inspired by our mission, vision and
core values to deliver compassionate, high quality health care, improving the health of the
communities we serve. Above all, we are committed to providing our customers and their family
members with a truly unique healing experience, one that embodies our values and respects the
dignity and worth of each person. Creating a health care system that is truly excellent in all areas
is an ongoing effort.