About this opportunity
CHRISTUS Health lists this Clinical Director - Telemetry / Nursing Leadership opportunity in alexandria, Louisiana. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Job DescriptionDescription \ N
Summary:
\ NManages the nursing services and staff for a department;
ensures quality and full compliance with relevant policies and standards.
\ NResponsibilities:
\ N - 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 ofteams;
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 usageto 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 foradmission/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
- Identifies issues that require immediate attention
\ N - Applies principles of crisis management to handle situations as necessary
\ N - Manages conflict
- 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
- Understands the components of cultural competence as they apply to the
\ N workforce
- 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 communicatespatient 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
\ N decisions
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
\ NRequirements:
\ N Graduate of a Registered Nursing program, Bachelor of Science in Nursing required.
\ N Master's degree in Nursing, Health Administration, Business Administration, Nursing, or related advanced degree in health health-related field preferred.
\ N Minimum of 3-5 years ofclinical patient care experience in a relevant setting.
\ N Minimum of 2 years of healthcare leadership.
\ N RN license in good standing in the state of employment or a compact state, if applicable.
\ N Registered Nurse (RN) required.
\ N American Heart Association Basic Life Support.
\ N Work Schedule:
\ N8AM - 5PM Monday-Friday
\ NWork Type:
\ NFull Time
Worksite address
alexandria, LA, 71301, US
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