Clinical Nursing Director

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Clinical Nursing Director
The candidate will plan and manage the clinical and administrative operations of a 40 bed Adult Medical Short Stay Unit. Assure implementation of patient care and quality assurance standards; and to plan, organize and evaluate clinical practice and educational activities. Participate in planning, development and implementation of unit policies, goals and objective and standard of nursing practice. Counsel and evaluate the performance and clinical practice of the nursing staff. This includes staff development programs and unit orientation to ensure compliance with practice standards. Identify and resolve unit operational problems. Represent the unit on assigned clinical area and hospital committees. Maintain compliance with Federal and State regulations regarding affirmative action, safety and patient care. Actively collaborate in the development of annual budgets; manage and provide variance reporting of activity, payroll, commodity, & capital budgets; participate in new program development & implementation; work closely with the Medical Director to create and support an environment where cutting-edge and innovative care is provided to a continually growing number of adult medical and surgical patients. Integrate unit goals and objectives with nursing services and health system goals and objectives. Collaborate with the Medical Director to develop and implement unit goals and objectives which include the establishment of standards of practice in patient care consisted with national professional and regulatory guidelines. Formulate professional goals and prepare written evaluation for Associate Chief Nursing Officer. Initiate and cooperate in the applied research in health care in keeping with the institutional objectives of maintaining prominence in developing new modes of clinical practice. Establish guidelines with the nursing faculty, which support the institutional goal of providing the primary clinical environment for nursing students. Facilitate, coordinate, and monitor the clinical experience of nursing and other students. Participate in concurrent and retrospective evaluation of patient care consistent with the hospital quality assurance program. Through this review process, evaluate and recommend changes and improvements in areas affecting the quality of patient care. Initiate, plan, analyze, and participate in Nursing staff development programs and workshops. Initiate and implement in-service guidelines for unit level orientation and staff development. Encourage and provide opportunities for continuing education of the nursing staff. Collaborate and coordinate with other disciplines to plan, evaluate, and implement the commodity budget for the patient care unit. Project and monitor personnel budget for patient care unit. Provide information regarding budget variances to the Associate Chief Nursing Officer. Interpret and implement University and hospital personnel policies and programs and ensure their uniform and correct application. Evaluate performance of nursing staff responsible to patient care unit. Make recommendations for merit awards and personnel classification changes. Counsel and discipline nursing staff to enable achievement of unit and institutional objectives, particularly as related to high quality patient care. Interview and select qualified personnel.

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