Clinical Director-Surgery General-Full Time

Description\n
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Summary:

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Manages the nursing services and staff for a department; ensures quality and full compliance with relevant policies and standards.

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Responsibilities:

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• Implementing and monitoring programs and practices for the delivery of safe and efficient quality nursing care for patients and their families
\n • Ensuring consistent application of nursing services policies and standards throughout the organization
\n • Monitoring patient outcomes and quality and effectiveness of nursing care
\n • Overseeing performance of teams; identifying and addressing staff training and development needs
\n • Apprising medical staff, department heads, and administrators in matters related to nursing service and strategies

\n Standard I: Financial Management

\n • Recognizes the impact of reimbursement on revenue
\n • Understands the relationship between values-based purchasing and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement
\n • Creates, monitors, and analyzes a budget; explaining variance
\n • Conducts ongoing evaluation of productivity, forecasting future revenue and expenses
\n • Documents capital appropriations and project authorizations

\n Standard II. Human Resources Management

\n • Evaluates and specifies the critical resources required to accomplish the team's objectives
\n • Initiates requests for required resources based on staff competency with patient acuity
\n • Allocates team resources responsibly and equitably within the scope of labor laws
\n • Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison
\n • Discovers opportunities to improve resource utilization
\n • Implements changes in role consistent with scope of practice
\n • Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow
\n • Resolves conflicts in a wide variety of situations, such as workload allocation, schedule overlap etc.
\n • Adjusts management and personal style to fit the needs of different people and different situations
\n • Explores motivational factors and tailors motivational efforts to individual needs and situations for the department
\n • Conducts evaluations on personnel performance at the work place and recommends improvement plans
\n • Coaches others on operating personnel management systems and their processes

\n Standard III. Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors

\n • Situation Management
\n • Identifies issues that require immediate attention
\n • Applies principles of crisis management to handle situations as necessary
\n • Manages conflict
\n • Promotes team dynamics
\n • Mentors and coaches staff
\n • Promotes Professional Management
\n • Promotes and encourages stress management
\n • Encourages participation in professional action
\n • principles of self-awareness
\n • Fosters a healthy work environment
\n • Diversity
\n • Understands the components of cultural competence as they apply to the
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\n • Maintains an environment of fairness and processes to support it
\n • Capitalizes on differences to foster highly effective work groups

\n Standard VI. Performance Improvement/Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations

\n • Assesses customer and patient satisfaction while developing and implementing strategies to address satisfaction issues
\n • Provides direct service to internal or external customers
\n • Facilitates the resolution of customer problems, issues, or concerns
\n • Monitors and promotes workplace safety requirements resulting in positive patient outcomes
\n • Applies systems thinking knowledge as an approach to analysis and decision-making
\n • Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities
\n • Provides evidence-based nursing care
\n • Promotes and communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care

\n Standard V. Leadership

\n • Serves as a leader of patient care
\n • Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc.
\n • Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, influence, determination, integrity, confidence
\n • Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events
\n • Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate and attain desired behaviors; increases productivity
\n • Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transformational, and associated techniques
\n • Applies techniques of “action learning” to problem solve and personally reflect on
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\n Clinical Performance Improvement

\n • Shares experiences with process performance improvements across multiple areas
\n • Recognizes recurring and difficult problems and explores new or innovative solutions
\n • Leverages technology to facilitate the sharing of clinical performance or outcomes data
\n • Compares and contrasts different approaches for performance improvement; highlights pros and cons
\n • Creates mechanism for ensuring quality and performance measures are understood and valued by nursing staff
\n • Consults on and coaches on developing business cases to justify improvement initiatives

\n Clinical Policies and Standards

\n • Monitors different types of clinical practice to ensure compliance with standards
\n • Evaluates existing and evolving standards and procedures and their impact on the organization
\n • Informs others on advanced clinical standards and policies across medical specialties
\n • Collaborates with other functions in establishing and documenting joint standards
\n • Participates in the development of clinical policies and practices
\n • Develops control and monitoring mechanisms for clinical policies adherence

\n Healthcare Policy and Ethics Compliance

\n • Shares experiences with addressing diverse problems in healthcare policy compliance
\n • Demonstrates best practices for dealing with complex compliance or non-compliance situations
\n • Guides others in making correct decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas
\n • Designs or revises organizational practices and procedures to ensure compliance with policies
\n • Supports and coaches on mechanisms that encourage attention to compliance issues; all clinical activities
\n • Participates in translating policy changes into operational programs and services

\n Healthcare Regulatory Environment

\n • Implements programs as needed to comply with diverse healthcare laws or regulations
\n • Monitors regulatory compliance of all healthcare practices to ensure no violations
\n • Evaluates key aspects of pending healthcare regulations and legislation that may impact company
\n • Provides recommendations and implements solutions to existing and potential legal problems
\n • Shares main considerations and issues related to laws and regulations in the implementation of healthcare practices

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Requirements:

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• Graduate of a Registered Nursing program, Bachelor of Science in Nursing required. 
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• Master's degree in Nursing, Health Administration, Business Administration, Nursing, or related advanced degree in health health-related field preferred.
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• Minimum of 3-5 years of clinical patient care experience in a relevant setting.
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• Minimum of 2 years of healthcare leadership.
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• RN license in good standing in the state of employment or a compact state, if applicable.
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• Registered Nurse (RN) required.
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• American Heart Association Basic Life Support.
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Work Schedule:

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5 Days - 8 Hours

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Work Type:

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Full Time

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