Brown University Health
Overview
SUMMARY: Reporting to the Vice President and Associate Chief Nursing Officer, the Director Inpatient Services Medical is accountable for the strategic direction, implementation of planned change, and evaluation of medical services for adult in-patients. Brown University Health employees are expected to role model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence, as these values guide everyday actions with patients, customers and one another. In addition to our values, employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include: Instill Trust and Value Differences; Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate. Leaders will demonstrate an aptitude for: Ensure Accountability and Build Effective Teams; Drive Vision and Purpose and Optimize Work Processes. By applying core and leadership competencies, leaders help Brown University Health achieve its strategic goals.
Responsibilities
Facilitates the development of short and long-term goals for medical services in collaboration with unit leadership and staff while considering Brown University Health's mission, its values and key business objectives.
Provides sponsorship to the function by identifying resources required to achieve the operating results and advocates for them during resource allocation.
In conjunction with unit leadership, develops, recommends, implements, and monitors capital and operating budgets for the academic medical center's critical care service.
Facilitates the effective utilization of resources (people, financial, material and equipment) to meet established goals and objectives of Brown University Health and the individual academic medical center.
Accountable for operating priorities to ensure activities support the system's strategies, while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
Ensures effective recruitment, selection, development, and evaluation of managerial, professional, and support staff to optimize achievement of goals and objectives.
Collaborates with medical service physician leaders, the Vice-President Patient Services/Associate CNO, unit leadership and colleagues to plan, design, and implement customer-focused, coordinated delivery of medical services and clinical programs.
Collaborates and consults with peers and colleagues by defining functional standards and translating them into usable applications and/or care patterns.
Collaborates with peers, colleagues, and physicians to develop mutually workable solutions to ensure consistency and continuity of functional applications across nursing, such as improved patient placement.
Participates in development and assessment of new programs; assesses market position and provides analysis for decision-making; participates in the development of related business plans.
Ensures in-patient billing processes for billable services, such as telemetry and specialty beds, to provide maximum reimbursement.
Shares accountability with unit leadership and staff to develop the plan for providing patient care designed to support improvement and innovation in professional practice based on patient need and the hospital mission.
Collaborates with the physician chiefs or designees in strategic planning for services and evaluation of clinical programs.
Ensures all patient care activities support established clinical standards of care, meet or exceed patient care quality standards, comply with regulatory agencies, and consider diversity and age-specific needs of the patient populations served.
Promotes effective planning and coordination of services with physicians, other departments, and outside agencies.
Ensures effective customer relations between the emergency department, other in-patient units and services, physicians, and the community.
Facilitates the development, implementation and evaluation of programs and services to consistently meet or exceed customers' needs, through continuous quality improvement practices.
Accountable for compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards. Ensures systems to assess patient, family and community needs for services and programs.
Serves as a role model by demonstrating Brown University Health's values and principles, creating and maintaining effective, positive customer service relationships by identifying customers and their needs, ensuring needs are met or exceeded, and educating staff on quality customer service.
Effectively communicates with staff, management, and customers to facilitate the flow of information necessary to the success of employees, department, function, and the organization.
Provides effective labor and employee relations to promote employee-manager effectiveness and satisfaction in the workplace.
Ensures compliance with collective bargaining agreements and human resource policies.
Creates employee ownership in their careers and success and provides staff with positive and actionable feedback to maximize the utilization and potential of the organization\'s human resources.
Facilitates continuous performance improvement by encouraging innovation, supporting reasonable risk-taking, and maintaining openness to new ideas.
Collaborates with the Center for Practice Excellence and human resources development staff to identify needs and develop programs for continuous development of staff.
Maintains knowledge of leading-edge developments in nursing, medical services and programs, and innovations in technology through ongoing study and professional activities.
Participates in or leads committees, task forces, and quality improvement teams as needed.
Fosters succession planning for key clinical, education, and leadership positions by identifying leaders and staff with the necessary skills and commitment.
Supports professional and leadership development in nursing by promoting collegial relationships with area nurse educators and by offering preceptorships to graduate students in nursing administration.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Licensure as Registered Nurse in the State of Rhode Island by the Rhode Island Board of Nursing or licensure as a RN under the Nurse Licensure Compact.
QUALIFICATIONS – EDUCATION: Bachelor\'s Degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university. Master\'s Degree in Nursing or a related field such as healthcare administration or its equivalent. Consideration given to internal candidates matriculated in a Master\'s Degree program. Must have current RN licensure in Rhode Island.
QUALIFICATIONS – EXPERIENCE: A minimum of 5-7 years of progressively responsible related experience, preferably in a diverse and operationally complex healthcare environment. Strong written and verbal communication, program development and quality improvement skills. Thorough knowledge of the Nurse Practice Act of Rhode Island is required.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: Supervisory responsibility for up to 350 FTEs.
Pay Range $136,344.00-$272,708.80
EEO Statement Brown University Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ancestry, genetics, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran, or marital status. Brown University Health is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
Location Rhode Island Hospital - 593 Eddy Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Work Type Monday-Friday, as needed to meet the job requirements
Work Shift Day
Daily Hours 8 hours
Driving Required No
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SUMMARY: Reporting to the Vice President and Associate Chief Nursing Officer, the Director Inpatient Services Medical is accountable for the strategic direction, implementation of planned change, and evaluation of medical services for adult in-patients. Brown University Health employees are expected to role model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence, as these values guide everyday actions with patients, customers and one another. In addition to our values, employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include: Instill Trust and Value Differences; Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate. Leaders will demonstrate an aptitude for: Ensure Accountability and Build Effective Teams; Drive Vision and Purpose and Optimize Work Processes. By applying core and leadership competencies, leaders help Brown University Health achieve its strategic goals.
Responsibilities
Facilitates the development of short and long-term goals for medical services in collaboration with unit leadership and staff while considering Brown University Health's mission, its values and key business objectives.
Provides sponsorship to the function by identifying resources required to achieve the operating results and advocates for them during resource allocation.
In conjunction with unit leadership, develops, recommends, implements, and monitors capital and operating budgets for the academic medical center's critical care service.
Facilitates the effective utilization of resources (people, financial, material and equipment) to meet established goals and objectives of Brown University Health and the individual academic medical center.
Accountable for operating priorities to ensure activities support the system's strategies, while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
Ensures effective recruitment, selection, development, and evaluation of managerial, professional, and support staff to optimize achievement of goals and objectives.
Collaborates with medical service physician leaders, the Vice-President Patient Services/Associate CNO, unit leadership and colleagues to plan, design, and implement customer-focused, coordinated delivery of medical services and clinical programs.
Collaborates and consults with peers and colleagues by defining functional standards and translating them into usable applications and/or care patterns.
Collaborates with peers, colleagues, and physicians to develop mutually workable solutions to ensure consistency and continuity of functional applications across nursing, such as improved patient placement.
Participates in development and assessment of new programs; assesses market position and provides analysis for decision-making; participates in the development of related business plans.
Ensures in-patient billing processes for billable services, such as telemetry and specialty beds, to provide maximum reimbursement.
Shares accountability with unit leadership and staff to develop the plan for providing patient care designed to support improvement and innovation in professional practice based on patient need and the hospital mission.
Collaborates with the physician chiefs or designees in strategic planning for services and evaluation of clinical programs.
Ensures all patient care activities support established clinical standards of care, meet or exceed patient care quality standards, comply with regulatory agencies, and consider diversity and age-specific needs of the patient populations served.
Promotes effective planning and coordination of services with physicians, other departments, and outside agencies.
Ensures effective customer relations between the emergency department, other in-patient units and services, physicians, and the community.
Facilitates the development, implementation and evaluation of programs and services to consistently meet or exceed customers' needs, through continuous quality improvement practices.
Accountable for compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards. Ensures systems to assess patient, family and community needs for services and programs.
Serves as a role model by demonstrating Brown University Health's values and principles, creating and maintaining effective, positive customer service relationships by identifying customers and their needs, ensuring needs are met or exceeded, and educating staff on quality customer service.
Effectively communicates with staff, management, and customers to facilitate the flow of information necessary to the success of employees, department, function, and the organization.
Provides effective labor and employee relations to promote employee-manager effectiveness and satisfaction in the workplace.
Ensures compliance with collective bargaining agreements and human resource policies.
Creates employee ownership in their careers and success and provides staff with positive and actionable feedback to maximize the utilization and potential of the organization\'s human resources.
Facilitates continuous performance improvement by encouraging innovation, supporting reasonable risk-taking, and maintaining openness to new ideas.
Collaborates with the Center for Practice Excellence and human resources development staff to identify needs and develop programs for continuous development of staff.
Maintains knowledge of leading-edge developments in nursing, medical services and programs, and innovations in technology through ongoing study and professional activities.
Participates in or leads committees, task forces, and quality improvement teams as needed.
Fosters succession planning for key clinical, education, and leadership positions by identifying leaders and staff with the necessary skills and commitment.
Supports professional and leadership development in nursing by promoting collegial relationships with area nurse educators and by offering preceptorships to graduate students in nursing administration.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Licensure as Registered Nurse in the State of Rhode Island by the Rhode Island Board of Nursing or licensure as a RN under the Nurse Licensure Compact.
QUALIFICATIONS – EDUCATION: Bachelor\'s Degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university. Master\'s Degree in Nursing or a related field such as healthcare administration or its equivalent. Consideration given to internal candidates matriculated in a Master\'s Degree program. Must have current RN licensure in Rhode Island.
QUALIFICATIONS – EXPERIENCE: A minimum of 5-7 years of progressively responsible related experience, preferably in a diverse and operationally complex healthcare environment. Strong written and verbal communication, program development and quality improvement skills. Thorough knowledge of the Nurse Practice Act of Rhode Island is required.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: Supervisory responsibility for up to 350 FTEs.
Pay Range $136,344.00-$272,708.80
EEO Statement Brown University Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ancestry, genetics, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran, or marital status. Brown University Health is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
Location Rhode Island Hospital - 593 Eddy Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Work Type Monday-Friday, as needed to meet the job requirements
Work Shift Day
Daily Hours 8 hours
Driving Required No
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