MARKET SUMMARY: PALM BEACH GROUP St. Mary's Medical Center, West Palm Beach, Florida Founded in 1938, St. Mary's Medical Center is a 420-bed, acute care hospital that provides medical, surgical, obstetrical, pediatric, trauma and emergency services to a five-county area. What started as a small 50-bed facility founded by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, has grown into a dynamic institution, known for its innovation and award-winning programs, as well as a legacy of excellence that began more than three generations ago. A leader in critical care medicine, St. Mary's treats more than 70,000 emergency and trauma patients each year. With advanced diagnostic and imaging services, we are the only GE Show site in the Southeastern United States for neurointerventional imaging technology. Our dedicated team of physicians and staff has helped us achieve top quality awards through The Birthplace, our level I trauma center, comprehensive stroke center, level III NICU and more. St. Mary's Medical Center has many specialized programs, including a state-designated Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Center and Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The Palm Beach Children's Hospital at St. Mary's Medical Center is the only dedicated pediatric hospital between Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando. As members of the national Children's Hospital Association, we provide highly specialized services to more than 50,000 children each year. Our campus is also the home of Quantum House, a hospitality home for families of pediatric patients. Our numerous employees and affiliated physicians have dedicated themselves to healing our community
POSITION SUMMARY The Chief Nursing Officer provides strategic leadership as the senior executive position responsible for all nursing and other designated patient care functions and services within the hospital organization. The role assumes responsibility for assessing, planning, coordinating, implementing and evaluating nursing practice on a facility level. The role assumes 24/7 responsibility and has accountability to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care. The Chief Nursing Officer represents nursing concerns on the governing board and at medical staff leadership meetings.
FUNCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS & REQUIREMENTS: Retaining great people at the facility - Collaborate with human resources and other team members to select, on-board, orient, and provide coaching for direct reports.
- Evaluate and monitor facility level people pillar statistics, participate on related calls as necessary.
- Consider and/or implement nurse residency programs to ensure pipeline for facility.
- Collaborate with team members to formulate programs to enhance work life balance.
- Partner with related team members to promote a safe work environment that is based on a zero tolerance for sexual harassment, workplace violence and verbal and physical abuse.
- Collaborate with related team members to promote an effective facility level competency program.
- Collaborate to promote a robust employee development and education program that responds to the unique needs of employees across the career continuum (novice to expert).
- Work cohesively with related team members to develop and implement recruitment and retention strategies that ensure a qualified and stable workforce.
- Participate in workforce planning to ensure an adequate and competent workforce.
- Support the design of effective and competitive compensation and benefits programs.
Communication and Relationship Building - Effectively communicate with all internal and external constituents, including staff, colleagues, and physicians.
- Communicate and administer human resource programs and procedures in accordance with established policies.
- Manage organizational relationships in a manner which builds mutual trust and respect. Establish trusting and collaborative relationships.
- Address and manage conflict in a constructive and productive manner.
- Give timely feedback and reinforce positive behaviors.
Leadership Influence - Create and communicate a compelling shared vision.
- Develop effective strategies for addressing organizational priorities.
- Develop, communicate and monitor performance expectations.
- Formulate objectives, goals, and specific strategies related to the organization's mission and vision.
- Understand effective organizational outcome measures in order to balance cost, quality and service.
- Measure and analyze performance from the learning and growth, business process, customer, and financial perspectives.
- Promote a results-oriented environment.
- Develop succession plan for nursing leadership.
- Demonstrate effective change management; able to serve as an organizational change agent.
- Coach and mentor aspiring nurse leaders.
- Create an environment in which professional and personal growth is an expectation.
- Articulate the application of ethical principles to operations.
- Manage organizational and individual performance with appropriate rewards.
- Represent nursing and patient care issues within the organization's governance and medical staff structures.
- Represent nursing and patient care in strategic planning and quality initiatives with the governing body.
- Educate the organization's board members and physicians regarding healthcare/value of nursing care.
Diversity - Create an environment that recognizes and values diversity.
- Develop processes to incorporate cultural beliefs into care.
- Design strategies that address the unique needs of a diverse workforce, patient population, and community.
- Assess the current environment and establish indicators of progress toward cultural competency.
Shared decision-making/Shared Leadership - Engage staff and others in decision-making.
- Promote decisions that are patient centered.
- Provide an environment conducive to opinion-sharing.
- Promote systems thinking as a value in the nursing organization.
- Consider the impact of nursing decisions on the health care organization as a whole.
- Provide leadership in building loyalty and commitment throughout the organization.
- Synthesize and integrate divergent viewpoints for the good of the organization.
- Involves employees in decision-making.
- Attend and participate in regional CNO calls and meetings.
Clinical Practice Leadership - Understand and articulate patient care standards reflected in federal and state regulation, TJC, the state Nurse Practice Act, and organizational policies and procedures.
- Maintain knowledge of current nursing practice and roles and functions within nursing and other healthcare disciplines.
- Maintain current knowledge of patient care delivery systems and innovations.
- Ensure that nursing practice is consistent with current standards and current evidenced based practice.
- Ensure that the care delivery model, clinical environment of care and related technology is appropriate to needs of caregivers and patients.
- Serve as change agent when patient care work/workflow is redesigned.
- Advocate use of documented best practices.
- Teach and mentor others to routinely utilize evidenced based data and research.
- Assure that the clinical perspective is included in organizational decisions.
- Supports regional senior director and Tenet CNO.
Academic Relationships - Provide a supportive and stimulating learning environment for nursing students.
- Participate in the academic community through advisory and collaborative efforts.
- Ensure that the educational system is aligned with organizational needs.
- Collaborate with nursing programs to provide required resources; evaluate graduates.
- Collaborate with academia in nursing research and incorporate nursing research into practice.
Resource Management - Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of organizational revenue, expense performance and capital planning.
- Manage fiscal, human and material resources in a cost-effective manner.
- Design and maintain effective systems for resource management in nursing.
- Manage patient care processes such as care management/length of stay to ensure optimal revenue.
- Utilize effective performance management in managing key areas of responsibility.
Quality, Patient Safety and Risk Management - Contribute to the development and implementation of the organization's performance improvement program. Support the development and implementation of an organization-wide patient safety program.
- Monitor and evaluate quality through public reported measure (i.e. core measures, nurse sensitive patient outcomes, infection control, etc) in collaboration with the facility DCQI and ICP, as well as national resources.
- Actively participate in facility clinical close calls.
- Define quality metrics by identifying the problem/process, measuring success at improving specific areas of patient care, analyzing the root causes or variation from quality standards, improving the process with the evidence . click apply for full job details