Director Patient Care - Medical/Telemetry amp Cardiology

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Director Patient Care - Medical/Telemetry & Cardiology','Full-time','Director/Manager/Supervisor','Full Time','Full Time','80','80','Occasional','Occasional','TEXAS-HOUSTON-ST LUKES MEDICAL CENTER','','!*!
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical CenterA quaternary care
facility that is home of the Texas Heart® Institute, a world-class
cardiovascular research and education institution founded in 1962 by Denton A.
Cooley, MD–consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best in Cardiovascular
Services & Heart Surgery.The first hospital in Texas and the
Southwest designated a Magnet® hospital for Nursing Excellence by the American
Nurses Credentialing Center, receiving the award four consecutive times. Baylor
St. Luke’s is home to three freestanding community emergency centers (Holcombe,
Pearland, and San Felipe) offering adult and pediatric care–treating more than
51,000 patients annually. The hospital holds a collaborative partnership with
Baylor College of Medicine and affiliations with The University of Texas Medical
School at Houston, The University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston), Houston
Baptist University, and Prairie View A&M University.

Director position will oversee the Medical/Telemetry and Cardiology Inpatient Units which encompasses three Managers, 98.87 FTEs and 58 beds.
Position Summary

This position is responsible for
providing and developing professional leadership in the nursing organization;
coordination, implementation, administration, and evaluation of nursing care to
patient and families; ensuring that high quality, cost effective nursing care is
delivered and works to integrate the goals of the service and the hospital.


The individual in this position will
assure the work environment adheres to regulatory requirements and departmental
practices and processes reflect high quality standards which support excellence
in patient care and a safe environment for patients, employees, physicians,
visitors, and guests. Additionally, they must assure quality standards are
implemented, maintained, and revisions to processes are updated and revised as
appropriate. It is essential they monitor metrics to validate performance
against national and system benchmarks and to ensure the delivery of competent
clinical practice is consistently achieved.','!*!Education
& Licensure:



Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN)
Master’s degree in Nursing, MBA, or MHA
Registered Nurse (RN)

Minimum Experience:



Four (4) years of nursing experience in a tertiary acute care hospital and a
minimum of five (5) years of management experience at the nurse manager level or
above.
Excellent clinical and operational skills.
Leadership experience within an academic medical center is highly
preferred.
Proven ability and sound knowledge base in the areas of work group
effectiveness, shared governance, and nursing management issues.
Track record of achieving effective collaboration across departmental and
organizational lines.
Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational
skills.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills &
Abilities:


Execution


The ability to hold people accountable to standards of performance or ensure
compliance using the power of one’s position or force of personality
appropriately and effectively, with the long-term good of the organization in
mind.
The ability to engage key partners, physicians, employees and executive
leadership, and sustain their commitment to changes in approaches, processes and
strategies.
The ability to work cooperatively with others as part of a team or group,
principally physicians, demonstrating positive attitudes about the team, its
members and its ability to get its mission accomplished.
The ability to speak and write in a clear, logical and grammatical manner in
formal and informal situations; to prepare cogent business presentations
representing the hospital and the health system in a positive manner.
The ability to take initiative and anticipate obstacles, developments, and
problems by looking ahead several months to over a year and to development a
long term plan strategic plan.
The ability to be organizationally aware of decision-making structures in
the health system and business partnerships.
The ability to understand and use complex statistical and financial methods
and metrics to set long and short term goals for areas assigned as well as
measure operational performance.
The ability to analyze and design or improve operational processes,
including incorporating the principles or quality management as well as customer
satisfaction.

Transformation


A concern for surpassing a standard of excellence.  Using past performance,
objective measures, challenging goals and outperforming competitors to establish
the new benchmark.
The ability to align Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center priorities with the
needs of other operating units, CHI St. Luke’s Health, and the community.
The ability to establish and maintain a sound financial budget.
The desire to obtain knowledge and stay current with health, organizational,
industry, and professional trends and developments.
The ability to use creative and conceptual thinking or inductive reasoning
to identify patterns or connections between situations that are not obviously
related, as well as key or underlying issues in complex situations.
The ability to draw implications and conclusions in light of the business,
economic, demographic, ethno-cultural, political and regulatory trends and
developments, and to use these insights to develop an evolving vision for the
areas assigned that results in long-term success and
viability.

Position
Responsibilities:



Under the direction of the Vice President Patient Care, the incumbent will
ensure provision of high quality patient care to a specified patient population
that meets the standards of local, state, and national regulatory bodies and
professional organizations.
Develops leadership within the hospital which supports and maintains
excellence in the standards of research based nursing practice.
Develops, integrates, and implements goals of the hospital and nursing into
their service line(s).
Leads quality programs and works to develop action places for continuous
improvement.
Develops, reviews, and maintains fiscal budget within established targets.
Monitors overtime, labor costs, medical supply expenses, and works with
purchasing partner to obtain strong supply contract pricing.
Assures staffing patterns are flexed and according to unit activity and
patient acuity.
Develop and manage the annual capital budget, establishing equipment
priorities based on patient unit needs, physician recruitment activities, and
revenue potential.
Develops a climate within which professional nursing can thrive and
grow.
Develops a program of nursing that ensures recruitment of the highest
caliber of nurses and the most effective retention of nurses within the
service.
Collaborates with other members of the management team, physicians, and
other departments to facilitate the delivery of patient care.
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*HEC*','We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.','2017-R0139346','CHI St. Luke's Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center','Director Patient Care - Medical/Telemetry & Cardiology

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