Chief Nursing Officer (Hiring Immediately)

Description

Calling all Esteemed Leaders! Are you a senior nursing executive who thrives in dynamic environments, leading transformation, strengthening professional practice, and guiding nursing organizations through critical transitions? Do you excel at partnering with executive teams while advancing high standards of patient care, safety, and performance? This leadership opportunity invites your expertise.

The Role:

Reporting directly to the System Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), and matrixed to the Ministry Chief Executive (CE) when on assignment, the CNO has overall responsibility for the operation and ongoing development of the Professional Nursing Practice when on assignment.

The Chief Nursing Officer directs nursing services by approval and implementation of nursing policies, procedures, standards and staffing plans. The CNO assures that nursing services are integrated into the ministry's performance improvement plan in support of the PSJH nursing strategic plan.

As a member of the hospital executive team, the CNO assumes an active leadership role interdepartmentally, with the medical staff, during Community Ministry Board activities, and as a key representative to the community.

With a constant focus on patient-centeredness, quality, staff and patient safety, the CNO creates and maintains standards and systems for care delivery at their ministry. These systems of care delivery promote evidence-based practice and are designed to support the management of productivity targets, patient acuity, and appropriate planning for and use of available resources.

What You'll Do:

• Act as an interim ministry based CNO with Providence and the family of organization.
• Act as a mentor and coach to CNO’s and aspiring CNO’s.
• Support the Nursing Leadership Academy by acting as an active mentor to attendees.
• Support system, divisional and local goals and initiatives.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary and highly matrixed team leadership to accomplish strategic goals and objectives.
• Manage multiple priorities and projects.
• Develop creative plans and solutions to execute identified clinical care related strategies and programs.
• Participate in designing strategies to address the unique needs of a diverse workforce, patient population, and community while promoting a culture of excellence, safety and psychological safety.
• Develop and maintain an effective team environment which recognizes and values diversity and promotes cultural competency.
• Engage caregivers and others in shared decision making, particularly as it relates to patient care.
• Contribute to retention by fostering an environment of caring, belonging, purpose and growth.
• Demonstrate expertise in organizational revenue, expense performance and capital planning; manage fiscal, human and material resources in a cost-effective manner.
• Deliver cost effective, quality clinical services.
• Lead the design and maintenance of effective systems for clinical resource management.
• Develop and implement standards, protocols, policies and procedures aligned with evidence-based clinical care.
• Provide consultation and support to operational and core leaders related to clinical care processes, shared leadership, and policies.
• Partner with quality leaders to design, implement and support quality improvement initiatives.
• Support and collaborate in nursing research and translation of evidence into practice.
• Support research on clinical leading practices and influence adoption and deployment.
• Actively participate in mentoring and developing aspiring caregivers, including future Chief Nursing Officers.

Communication & Relationship Building

• Creates a work environment that facilitates and encourages involvement of the staff in critical thinking to enact professional nursing practice.
• Build collaborative relationships.
• Uses shared decision making to accomplish the organization’s primary goal which is service to patients, families and the community.
• Promotes implementation of processes and resources that deliver data and information to empower staff to participate meaningfully in clinical decision making.
• Establish an environment that values diversity in which care is delivered in a manner sensitive to social and cultural diversity.
• Provides and maintains effective communications with medical staff, the community, and all levels of supervision and staff. Rounds for improved visibility and to meet specific goals such as safety.
• Represent the organization to non-health care constituents within the community.
• Represent nursing to the media and broader community stakeholders.
• Serve on community-based boards, advisory groups, academic advisory councils and task forces.
• Represent nursing at medical executive committee and other departmental / medical staff committees.
• Collaborate with nursing programs to provide required resources.
• Support academic partnerships to ensure a qualified workforce for the future.

Knowledge of the Health Care Environment

• Communicate 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.
• Assess the effectiveness of delivery models.
• Develop new delivery models.
• Participate in the design of facilities.
• 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.
• 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 organization’s board meetings.
• Represent other disciplines at the organization’s board meetings.
• Use evidence for establishment of standards, practices and patient care models in the organization (nurse sensitive outcomes).
• 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