Oregon Health & Science University
Director of Nursing, Adult Acute Care Services
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States, 97204
Director of Nursing, Adult Acute Care Services
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Base Pay Range $157,123.20/yr - $267,092.80/yr
Department Overview Lead adult patient care at OHSU through exciting new growth and innovation. Oregon Health & Science University is dedicated to improving the health and quality of life for all Oregonians through excellence, innovation and leadership in health care, education and research. We are growing to meet the most urgent needs of patients of all ages who require the highest level of hospital care for cancer and other complex conditions.
We’re Proud To Be
Magnet designated facility
Oregon's only Public Academic Health Center
Level 1 Trauma Center
A nationally recognized Cancer Center
A hospital that believes in the power of nurse leaders to drive change
Adult Acute Care Services Includes
Transplant/Urology/Plastics
Medicine
Orthopedic/Spine
General Surgery
Epilepsy Monitoring
Cardiovascular Intermediate Care
Trauma
Dialysis
Function/Duties of Position The Nursing Director is a Registered Nurse (RN) responsible for upholding excellence in the provision of nursing care through the implementation of the Professional Practice Model. The Nursing Director is responsible for operational, human resource, quality, and financial management of the assigned department. The Nursing Director utilizes professional practice as the foundation for leading nursing practice. The Nursing Director collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to translate and implement organizational and divisional priorities into the department’s operations. The Nursing Director implements quality and safety initiatives, leads process improvement, and ensures adherence to hospital and clinical standards of performance. The Nursing Director ensures a patient care environment that supports a safe, knowledgeable, compassionate, productive, and engaged staff. The Nursing Director partners with the interdisciplinary care team to ensure the delivery of safe, quality patient care and compliance with administrative, regulatory, and clinical policies and procedures. The Nursing Director’s decisions and actions are based on the ethical principles outlined by the American Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics for Nursing. The Nursing Director practices in adherence with the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice for Nurse Administrators, the ANA Code of Ethics for Nursing, the Oregon State Board of Nursing’s Nurse Practice Act, and within the context of the Nurse Executive Competencies developed by the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE). The Nursing Director exemplifies the principles of the OHSU Culture of Safety Position Statement by committing to a Just Culture, a Reporting Culture, a Learning Culture, and an Engaged Informed Culture.
Strategic Planning
Partner with others to develop a department strategic plan that aligns with the division strategic plan and nursing’s vision.
Collaboratively formulate department objectives, goals, and specific strategies related to initiatives.
Distribute leadership to achieve strategic targets.
Develop short and long-term goals that identify the target conditions.
Coordinate the implementation of interventions to meet department-level goals.
Communicate, implement, and evaluate the unit strategic plan.
Operational Leadership
Partner with others to enhance healthcare and, ultimately patient care through interdisciplinary activities, such as education, consultation, management, technological development, or research opportunities.
Apply systems theory with an understanding that how parts of a system relate to the overall system.
Maintain knowledge of current nursing practice and the roles and functions of care team members (e.g. charge nurse, code team, RRT).
Evaluate staff’s competency and intervene to optimize performance and ensure safe, quality, effective and efficient patient care.
Lead and practice patient/family advocacy and promote patient-centered decisions and outcomes.
Maintain visibility and open communication with the staff and department leadership.
Communicate plans and decisions to department staff and other stakeholders.
Assert view in a non-judgmental manner.
Ensure the care environment supports the provision of safe quality care, and a workplace that promotes shared decision-making, accountability, autonomy and engagement.
Reflect on own method of decision-making and the role of beliefs, values and inferences to develop leadership and performance capacity.
Practice within shared-governance structures to distribute leadership and promote decision-making at appropriate level within the governance structure.
Celebrate successes and accomplishments.
Financial Management
Evaluate nurse leaders’ achievement toward financial performance targets. Develop nurse leaders in managing productive, non-productive and premium pay to optimize performance goals.
Achieve financial targets: manage productive, non-productive and premium pay to optimize performance goals.
Collaborate with the Professional Practice Leader to prioritize and allocate resources for department/division level education & practice priorities.
Develop innovative solutions and apply strategies to obtain appropriate resources for nursing initiatives.
Promote activities that inform others about cost, risks, and benefits of care, or of the plan and solution.
Human Resources
Use evidence-based leadership to promote desired behaviors.
Manage leader and staff performance through progressive development and actions to advance a culture that embraces a Learning Organization.
Develop a high-functioning workforce in collaboration with the department leadership.
Recognize and reward exemplary professional practice.
Mentor and coach staff in an ongoing and progressive manner.
Monitor and evaluate the application of practice standards.
Collaborate with department leadership to facilitate behaviors that impact safety, quality, patient satisfaction, and employee satisfaction.
Lead department efforts to recruit & retain highly qualified staff.
Develop department succession planning initiatives.
Collaborate with the PPL (if applicable) to identify individual practice issues, develop improvement strategies, and evaluate performance for all nursing staff on assigned units.
Performance Improvement
Develop the department/division quality plan in collaboration with the unit’s formal and informal leaders.
Utilize data to identify areas for improvement based on assessment and current states.
Articulate the link between metrics and goals.
Monitor and use data to determine patient care quality improvement objectives.
Evaluate the practice environment and design and implement quality improvement strategies to ensure nursing sensitive outcomes meets or exceeds established goals.
Evaluate the impact/benefits of organizational, nursing, and department initiatives.
Identify areas of risk and make suggestions for reducing risk and improving outcomes.
Trend and investigate concerns and errors to understand the root cause of occurrences of errors or adverse events and success.
Maintain oversight for the department-level communication plan to connect system, healthcare and nursing initiatives.
Support workflow processes that build a culture of safety.
Use current research findings and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase knowledge of professional issues.
Professionalism
Evaluate practice in relation to the professional practice standards and existing evidence.
Promote translation of theory, scope & standards into practice to exercise autonomy and decision-making authority.
Advance practice excellence by communicating a clear and consistent message about the ownership of role and standards-based professional practice.
Mentor and support others to access resources for their professional development.
Engage in informal and formal processes of giving and seeking feedback regarding role performance from individuals, professional colleagues, representatives, administrators, and others.
Required Qualifications
BSN and Master’s degree in nursing or related field.
Five years RN experience AND two years recent related management experience.
Experience in complex organization environments.
Ability to effectively manage multiple conflicting priorities.
Proficient with word processing, computational spreadsheet (e.g., Excel), and presentation software.
Professional certification in nursing leadership—e.g., Nurse Executive/Administrator within 2 years of assuming the director role.
Unencumbered Oregon RN license.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in nursing leadership.
Experience in nursing management.
Three years of management experience in the related clinical area of practice.
Professional certification in nursing leadership — e.g., Nurse Executive/Administrator.
Benefits
Comprehensive health care plans. Covered 100% for full-time employees and 88% for dependents for .9 FTE and higher.
$25K of term life insurance provided at no cost to the employee.
Two separate above market pension plans to choose from.
Paid time off — 208 hours per year (full-time), prorated for part-time.
Extended illness bank — 64 hours per year, prorated for part-time.
9 paid holidays per year.
Three weeks of paid parental leave.
Adoption assistance program (up to 5k).
Substantial Tri-met and C-Tran discounts.
Tuition Reimbursement.
Innovative Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
EEO Statement All are welcome. Oregon Health & Science University values a diverse and culturally competent workforce. We are proud of our commitment to being an equal opportunity, affirmative action organization that does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of any protected class status, including disability status and protected veteran status. Individuals with diverse backgrounds and those who promote diversity and a culture of inclusion are encouraged to apply. To request reasonable accommodation contact the AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DEPARTMENT at 503-494-5148 or aaeo@ohsu.edu.
Seniority level: Not Applicable. Employment type: Full-time. Job function: Health Care Provider. Industries: Hospitals and Health Care.
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Director of Nursing, Adult Acute Care Services
role at
Oregon Health
&
Science University
Base Pay Range $157,123.20/yr - $267,092.80/yr
Department Overview Lead adult patient care at OHSU through exciting new growth and innovation. Oregon Health & Science University is dedicated to improving the health and quality of life for all Oregonians through excellence, innovation and leadership in health care, education and research. We are growing to meet the most urgent needs of patients of all ages who require the highest level of hospital care for cancer and other complex conditions.
We’re Proud To Be
Magnet designated facility
Oregon's only Public Academic Health Center
Level 1 Trauma Center
A nationally recognized Cancer Center
A hospital that believes in the power of nurse leaders to drive change
Adult Acute Care Services Includes
Transplant/Urology/Plastics
Medicine
Orthopedic/Spine
General Surgery
Epilepsy Monitoring
Cardiovascular Intermediate Care
Trauma
Dialysis
Function/Duties of Position The Nursing Director is a Registered Nurse (RN) responsible for upholding excellence in the provision of nursing care through the implementation of the Professional Practice Model. The Nursing Director is responsible for operational, human resource, quality, and financial management of the assigned department. The Nursing Director utilizes professional practice as the foundation for leading nursing practice. The Nursing Director collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to translate and implement organizational and divisional priorities into the department’s operations. The Nursing Director implements quality and safety initiatives, leads process improvement, and ensures adherence to hospital and clinical standards of performance. The Nursing Director ensures a patient care environment that supports a safe, knowledgeable, compassionate, productive, and engaged staff. The Nursing Director partners with the interdisciplinary care team to ensure the delivery of safe, quality patient care and compliance with administrative, regulatory, and clinical policies and procedures. The Nursing Director’s decisions and actions are based on the ethical principles outlined by the American Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics for Nursing. The Nursing Director practices in adherence with the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice for Nurse Administrators, the ANA Code of Ethics for Nursing, the Oregon State Board of Nursing’s Nurse Practice Act, and within the context of the Nurse Executive Competencies developed by the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE). The Nursing Director exemplifies the principles of the OHSU Culture of Safety Position Statement by committing to a Just Culture, a Reporting Culture, a Learning Culture, and an Engaged Informed Culture.
Strategic Planning
Partner with others to develop a department strategic plan that aligns with the division strategic plan and nursing’s vision.
Collaboratively formulate department objectives, goals, and specific strategies related to initiatives.
Distribute leadership to achieve strategic targets.
Develop short and long-term goals that identify the target conditions.
Coordinate the implementation of interventions to meet department-level goals.
Communicate, implement, and evaluate the unit strategic plan.
Operational Leadership
Partner with others to enhance healthcare and, ultimately patient care through interdisciplinary activities, such as education, consultation, management, technological development, or research opportunities.
Apply systems theory with an understanding that how parts of a system relate to the overall system.
Maintain knowledge of current nursing practice and the roles and functions of care team members (e.g. charge nurse, code team, RRT).
Evaluate staff’s competency and intervene to optimize performance and ensure safe, quality, effective and efficient patient care.
Lead and practice patient/family advocacy and promote patient-centered decisions and outcomes.
Maintain visibility and open communication with the staff and department leadership.
Communicate plans and decisions to department staff and other stakeholders.
Assert view in a non-judgmental manner.
Ensure the care environment supports the provision of safe quality care, and a workplace that promotes shared decision-making, accountability, autonomy and engagement.
Reflect on own method of decision-making and the role of beliefs, values and inferences to develop leadership and performance capacity.
Practice within shared-governance structures to distribute leadership and promote decision-making at appropriate level within the governance structure.
Celebrate successes and accomplishments.
Financial Management
Evaluate nurse leaders’ achievement toward financial performance targets. Develop nurse leaders in managing productive, non-productive and premium pay to optimize performance goals.
Achieve financial targets: manage productive, non-productive and premium pay to optimize performance goals.
Collaborate with the Professional Practice Leader to prioritize and allocate resources for department/division level education & practice priorities.
Develop innovative solutions and apply strategies to obtain appropriate resources for nursing initiatives.
Promote activities that inform others about cost, risks, and benefits of care, or of the plan and solution.
Human Resources
Use evidence-based leadership to promote desired behaviors.
Manage leader and staff performance through progressive development and actions to advance a culture that embraces a Learning Organization.
Develop a high-functioning workforce in collaboration with the department leadership.
Recognize and reward exemplary professional practice.
Mentor and coach staff in an ongoing and progressive manner.
Monitor and evaluate the application of practice standards.
Collaborate with department leadership to facilitate behaviors that impact safety, quality, patient satisfaction, and employee satisfaction.
Lead department efforts to recruit & retain highly qualified staff.
Develop department succession planning initiatives.
Collaborate with the PPL (if applicable) to identify individual practice issues, develop improvement strategies, and evaluate performance for all nursing staff on assigned units.
Performance Improvement
Develop the department/division quality plan in collaboration with the unit’s formal and informal leaders.
Utilize data to identify areas for improvement based on assessment and current states.
Articulate the link between metrics and goals.
Monitor and use data to determine patient care quality improvement objectives.
Evaluate the practice environment and design and implement quality improvement strategies to ensure nursing sensitive outcomes meets or exceeds established goals.
Evaluate the impact/benefits of organizational, nursing, and department initiatives.
Identify areas of risk and make suggestions for reducing risk and improving outcomes.
Trend and investigate concerns and errors to understand the root cause of occurrences of errors or adverse events and success.
Maintain oversight for the department-level communication plan to connect system, healthcare and nursing initiatives.
Support workflow processes that build a culture of safety.
Use current research findings and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase knowledge of professional issues.
Professionalism
Evaluate practice in relation to the professional practice standards and existing evidence.
Promote translation of theory, scope & standards into practice to exercise autonomy and decision-making authority.
Advance practice excellence by communicating a clear and consistent message about the ownership of role and standards-based professional practice.
Mentor and support others to access resources for their professional development.
Engage in informal and formal processes of giving and seeking feedback regarding role performance from individuals, professional colleagues, representatives, administrators, and others.
Required Qualifications
BSN and Master’s degree in nursing or related field.
Five years RN experience AND two years recent related management experience.
Experience in complex organization environments.
Ability to effectively manage multiple conflicting priorities.
Proficient with word processing, computational spreadsheet (e.g., Excel), and presentation software.
Professional certification in nursing leadership—e.g., Nurse Executive/Administrator within 2 years of assuming the director role.
Unencumbered Oregon RN license.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in nursing leadership.
Experience in nursing management.
Three years of management experience in the related clinical area of practice.
Professional certification in nursing leadership — e.g., Nurse Executive/Administrator.
Benefits
Comprehensive health care plans. Covered 100% for full-time employees and 88% for dependents for .9 FTE and higher.
$25K of term life insurance provided at no cost to the employee.
Two separate above market pension plans to choose from.
Paid time off — 208 hours per year (full-time), prorated for part-time.
Extended illness bank — 64 hours per year, prorated for part-time.
9 paid holidays per year.
Three weeks of paid parental leave.
Adoption assistance program (up to 5k).
Substantial Tri-met and C-Tran discounts.
Tuition Reimbursement.
Innovative Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
EEO Statement All are welcome. Oregon Health & Science University values a diverse and culturally competent workforce. We are proud of our commitment to being an equal opportunity, affirmative action organization that does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of any protected class status, including disability status and protected veteran status. Individuals with diverse backgrounds and those who promote diversity and a culture of inclusion are encouraged to apply. To request reasonable accommodation contact the AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DEPARTMENT at 503-494-5148 or aaeo@ohsu.edu.
Seniority level: Not Applicable. Employment type: Full-time. Job function: Health Care Provider. Industries: Hospitals and Health Care.
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