Clinical Nursing Director for Emergency Department
Start ASAP Salary negotiable to $90,0000-$107,000
QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION: Master’s degree in Nursing.
EXPERIENCE: Min 8 years of nursing experience in an acute care setting.
LICENSURE OR CERT: Current RN licensure permitting work in the State of Arizona, CPR, ACLS & PALS
Job Description:
Require to fullfill day to day operations and strategic planning skills and experience. The Emergency Department is a sixty-six bed, fast paced, 4:1 patient ratio and a challenge for any nurse that appreciates high acuity patients and high volume. Privately contracted ED Physician group, friendly and teaching focused. Clinical Nurse leads available for each shift as resource for staff. Pyxis medication and Epic charting systems utilized. Average daily census; winter 270, summer 220.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Assists in organization and administration of Patient Care Services in the Emergency Department. Analyzes nursing and ancillary services to improve quality of patient care and attains maximum utilization of staff time and resources. Assumes other responsibilities delegated by Chief Medical Officer.
Subscribes to and upholds established standards of behavior.
Works collaboratively and supports efforts of other team members.
Designs, implements and monitors quality improvement initiatives through team participation, data collection, process change implementations and other activities.
Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive data at all times, including patient information, proprietary information and personnel information.
Adheres to organizational and department-specific safety standards and guidelines.
Adheres to values of integrity, diversity, accountability, compassion, and teamwork.
Assumes responsibility for quality 24/7 patient care and for the management of an optimal work environment for employees.
Handles supervisory responsibilities, such as interviewing and hiring, training, and performance evaluation; establishes specific performance standards and measures for work; confronts others directly and respectfully when performance does not meet expectations
Oversees assigned budgets, including projections and reconciliation; understands implications of business decisions on bottom line and manages activities to produce results to support business decisions.
Proactively identifies areas where costs per unit can be optimized, prioritizes which projects will have greatest returns, and ensures quality results are realized in a timely manner; anticipates resources that will be needed to complete a project and avoid over-committing resources.
Understands how assigned departments add value and its customers, and makes decisions and recommendations that are clearly linked to hospital strategies and financial goals.
Applies business understanding to improve practices and processes of role; leverages inter-function linkages to raise performance levels; thinks in global, cross-boundary terms before setting out on a project or problem-solving initiative.
Communicates and interfaces with hospital personnel, patients, medical staff, and family members to ensure high-quality patient care; keeps department members informed on key issues.
Provides information or resource assistance to other teams, departments or functions; assists others in their efforts, even if there is no immediate or direct benefit to one’s own function or department.
Proactively develops contingency plans with appropriate tactics and responds to unforeseen circumstances and utilizes planned resources, putting patients at the center of planning and delivery of services.
Develops a coaching and mentoring relationship with others that is purposefully aimed at developing their independence; encourages others to consider creative or innovative approaches to changing goals, processes or environments; assigns specific projects to challenge others and stretch their abilities and self-confidence.
Implements and maintains established department, unit and hospital policies, procedures and objectives as well as quality assurance, environmental, and infection control policies; assures compliance with organization’s incident reporting system in a timely and accurate manner.
Demonstrates effective IT skills and familiarity, such as basic functionality of the computer, PC File and Folder, Word, Excel, e-mail and attachment capabilities, Outlook, PowerPoint and presentation skills.
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITES
Performs related duties as assigned.
Job Title Post Details
Posted By RN Referral Network
Phone 305-942-1527
City, ST Tucson, AZ
