Chief nursing officer
Location: San Angelo Texas
Description: Thornton Group is hiring Chief nursing officer right now, this career will be placed in Texas. For detail informations about this career opportunity please read the description below. Medical Center, a 171-bed, JCAHO-accredited, acute care medical facility located in San Angelo, Texas, is the oldest continuously operated medical facility in the Concho Valley Community. Services include Adult and N! eonatal Intensive Care Services, Full Service Health Club/Wellness Program, Neurology and Neurosurgery Services, Senior Services Program, Women's and Children's Services, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Services, Level III Trauma Emergency Department, Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Services, Sports Medicine Programs, Wound Care and Hyperbaric Services, and Safe Kids Childhood Injury Prevention Program.
Description
The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is responsible for:
- Providing leadership to nurse employees that will enroll their support, create ownership of goals, and have them actively participate in decisions that impact the hospital
- Maintaining necessary regulatory and compliance approvals and quality accreditations
- Partnering with physicians who use, or will use, the hospital
- Assisting in planning new services that generate additional sources of profitable revenue
- Creating an environment that ! will encourage recruiting and retention of clinical employees
- Managing costs by continually seeking data that will identify opportunities and take action to eliminate non-value costs
- Establishing standards for nursing practices and maintain authority, accountibility and responsibility for nursing services
- Developing organizational patient care programs, policies and proceedures that describe how nursing care is assessed, delivered and evaluated.
- Developing and managing the nursing services budget and ensuring sufficient number of qualified staff to assess patient needs
- Plan and provide nursing care interventions and prevent complications, promote improvement and patient comfort and wellness
- Analyzing areas in planning, promoting and conducting organization-wide performance improvement activities
- Representing the nursing services at all meetings including medical staff and hospital board of director meetings; participates with leaders in designing and providing patient care! and services
The CNO will oversee multiple departments within the hospital.
This position reports directly to the hospital Chief Executive Officer.
Qualifications
Education:
Must possess a Bachelor's degree in Nursing from an accredited institution
Master's degree required
Certifications/Licenses:
Must be a registerd nurse (RN) with a current licensure
Experience/Skills:
Must possess detailed knowledge of hospital nursing operations
5+ years of demonstrated successful leadership in an acute-care hospital environment (For-profit experience pref! erred)
Must be proficient in written and verbal communication ! skills
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with hospital staff, physicians, patients, and patient's families
Ability to maintain confidential information concerning personal, financial, or medical matters
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If you were eligible to this career, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Thornton Group.
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This career starts available on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:25:09 GMT