Nursing Director - General Surgery 15BCD
Mass General Brigham
- Boston, MA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- The Nursing Director is the leader of the clinical discipline of nursing with administrative, fiscal, and personnel accountability in the designated clinical area.
- The Nursing Director is responsible for creating and maintaining a therapeutic, healing, patient- and family- centered care environment. S/he participates in the development, refinement, communication and actualization of the BWH Department of Nursing (DON) vision, professional practice model, and relationship-based care delivery system.
- As the clinical leader of the discipline, the Nursing Director is responsible for establishing and maintaining the standards of nursing care and practice.
- The Nursing Director establishes and maintains true collaborative relationships with nursing staff, all disciplines and departments necessary to foster optimal patient outcomes and a professional practice environment. S/he partners with inter-professional and intra-professional leadership to set mutual goals that advance teamwork, interdisciplinary learning, just culture and the environment of care.
- Actively supports the development of new nursing knowledge.
- Assures the use of and adherence to evidence-informed practice/standards for nursing care.
- Assures the practice environment supports reflective practice, e.g. through the use of narratives, and meets the needs of the relevant patient population
- Professional development –self a. Participates in self-performance appraisal process in ongoing manner. b. Seeks feedback from his/her professional colleagues. c. Shares strengths and areas to be developed with associate chief nurse and other colleagues as appropriate. d. Maintains necessary clinical and managerial expertise through evidence-based practice. e. Participates in service- and department-wide developmental initiatives. f. Demonstrates commitment to life-long learning, e.g. through active participation in professional organizations.
- Conducts timely assessments of staff learning needs and assure programs/projects are in place to address them, including collaboration with the Professional Development Managers and the center for Nursing Excellence.
- Facilitates opportunities for staff to precept and teach others.
- Promotes staff participation in annual goal setting for his/her patient care area[s] and the Department of Nursing.
- Serves as a leader within the community of nursing, in accordance with the standards of the discipline of nursing, including adherence to the ANA Code of Ethics.
- Assures appropriate personnel to meet the needs of the designated patient population.
- Designs and implements staffing patterns responsive to a dynamic care environment.
- Interviews, hires and oversees the orientation of new employees considering departmental, divisional, local and individual employee needs as basis of decisions.
- Provided ongoing formal and informal feedback regarding performance to staff members.
- Delegates authority and/or responsibility to others as appropriate while maintaining 24x7 accountability.
- Demonstrates consistent leadership in the maintenance of a fair and just culture.
- Assures staff participation in local-based decision making, Department of Nursing committees and initiatives.
- Provides ongoing formal and informal feedback regarding professional development to staff members.
- Encourages and recommends staff participation in unit-based decision making, Department of Nursing committees and organizational initiatives.
- Responsible for creating and maintaining a caring, therapeutic, healing, patient- and family-centered care environment.
- Assures the presence of interventions to promote/assure a patient and family centered healing environment.
- Assures appropriate staffing plan to meet patient care needs on a continuous basis
- Promotes an inclusive environment supportive of a patient- and family- centered care for a diverse community.
- Accountable for contributions to planning, implementing and evaluating the Department of Nursing Quality Plan, inclusive of nurse sensitive indicators and patient satisfaction metrics.
- Actively participates in Brigham and Women’s Hospital quality improvement programs, assuring clear articulation of the quality agenda by all staff in his/her patient care area(s) and/or specialty patient populations.
- Develops local-based quality agenda using performance improvement methodologies in collaboration with department and hospital-based quality leaders assuring an environment of continuous quality improvement, improved patient and systems’ outcomes.
- Actively translates quality improvement findings into daily operations and strategic planning for the clinical area.
- Communicates and translates outcomes to staff and interdisciplinary colleagues, assuring staff’s active participation in addressing quality improvement opportunities.
- Serves as a resource on clinical matters to assure an environment that promotes the desired patient outcomes.
- Assures all staff members are in compliance with regulatory standards. [For example, required licensure, orientation, ongoing education and annual competencies and screenings for ongoing employment].
- Provides leadership in developing quality-driven and cost-effective plans to deliver patient care, including participation in strategic planning
- Assures the accurate attainment and review of data (complexity, volume, acuity, etc) in relation to staffing effectiveness
- Develops and participates in creating systems to monitor the patient care environment, knowledgeable about and mindful of relevant regulatory compliance.
- Seeks and provides peer consultation and collaboration.
- Contributes to strategy, practice and policy decisions assuring all decisions made include perspectives of constituents to be represented.
- Assures self and staff participation in DON and interdepartmental committees.
- Represents service/DON as requested on various hospital task forces/committees.
- Demonstrates leadership in interdisciplinary collaboration, including participation in the development, implementation and evaluation of joint protocols for patient care.
- Collaborates in department-wide recruitment and retention strategies and initiatives.
- Collaborates with HR staff/leadership re: personnel management as appropriate.
- Seeks resources/serves as a liaison for staff from within the larger nursing and BWH communities.
- Manages patient flow ensuring collaboration with other patient care areas and/or Patient Access Department.
- Establishes and maintain open communication with managers of Support Services and other Department of Nursing resources as needed to assure clean and safe patient care environments.
- Manages to budget and articulates any short or long-term variances.
- Collaborates with Associate Chief Nurse to be fiscally responsive, i.e. managing volume and acuity to hours per workload index (HPWI).
- Develops schedules/ staffing plans that meet patient care needs on a continuous basis.
- Collaborates with nurse leaders and other departments to assure adequate supplies, operational, capital resources are available to staff caring for patients.
- MSN (or) DNP (or) PhD, (or) a BSN with a Master’s degree in a related field, required.
- Current certification required. Certification must be maintained while employed in this position.
- Minimum of 3 years nursing experience required.
- Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in nursing administration within an academic medical center (preferred).
- Current nursing licensure in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- Clinical experience will be evaluated on an individual basis by the hiring associate chief nurse.
- Previous leadership experience with demonstrated management ability is preferred.
- Must have demonstrated clinical competence in nursing practice.
- Must possess analytical abilities necessary to organize, to supervise and to evaluate the work of others; to develop and to administer policies, procedures, budgets, and utilize current concepts of nursing practice.
- Must possess interpersonal skills sufficient to provide effective leadership to staff, and to interact with patients, visitors, physicians, other clinical disciplines and a variety of hospital departments.
- Must possess both management and leadership skills to be effective with multiple levels of staff.