Clinical Director - Acute Telemetry
16 days ago
Corpus Christi
Description\n \n\n CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi - Shoreline overlooking Corpus Christi Bay is the largest and foremost acute care medical facility in the region, with a full range of diagnostic and surgical specialty services in cardiac, cancer, and stroke care. It is the leading emergency facility in the area with a Level II Trauma Center in the Coastal Bend, staffed with physicians and nurses specially trained in emergency services. \n\n\n \n • The Pavilion and North Tower house a state-of-the-art emergency department, ICU, Cardiac Cath Lab and surgical suites \n, • A teaching facility in affiliation with the Texas A&M University System Health and Science Center College of Medicine \n, • Accredited Chest Pain Center \n, • Accredited Joint Commission Stroke Team \n \n\n Summary: \n Manages the nursing services and staff for a department; ensures quality and full compliance with relevant policies and standards. \n Responsibilities: \n\n • Implementing and monitoring programs and practices for the delivery of safe and efficient quality nursing care for patients and their families\n, • Ensuring consistent application of nursing services policies and standards throughout the organization\n, • Monitoring patient outcomes and quality and effectiveness of nursing care\n, • Overseeing performance of teams; identifying and addressing staff training and development needs\n, • Apprising medical staff, department heads, and administrators in matters related to nursing service and strategies\n\n Standard I: Financial Management \n\n • Recognizes the impact of reimbursement on revenue\n, • Understands the relationship between values-based purchasing and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement\n, • Creates, monitors, and analyzes a budget; explaining variance\n, • Conducts ongoing evaluation of productivity, forecasting future revenue and expenses\n, • Documents capital appropriations and project authorizations\n\n Standard II. Human Resources Management \n\n • Evaluates and specifies the critical resources required to accomplish the team's objectives\n, • Initiates requests for required resources based on staff competency with patient acuity\n, • Allocates team resources responsibly and equitably within the scope of labor laws\n, • Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison\n, • Discovers opportunities to improve resource utilization\n, • Implements changes in role consistent with scope of practice\n, • Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow\n, • Resolves conflicts in a wide variety of situations, such as workload allocation, schedule overlap etc.\n, • Adjusts management and personal style to fit the needs of different people and different situations\n, • Explores motivational factors and tailors motivational efforts to individual needs and situations for the department\n, • Conducts evaluations on personnel performance at the work place and recommends improvement plans\n, • Coaches others on operating personnel management systems and their processes\n\n Standard III. Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors \n\n • Situation Management\n, • Identifies issues that require immediate attention\n, • Applies principles of crisis management to handle situations as necessary\n, • Manages conflict\n, • Promotes team dynamics\n, • Mentors and coaches staff\n, • Promotes Professional Management\n, • Promotes and encourages stress management\n, • Encourages participation in professional action\n, • Principles of self-awareness\n, • Fosters a healthy work environment\n, • Diversity\n, • Understands the components of cultural competence as they apply to the workforce\n, • Maintains an environment of fairness and processes to support it\n, • Capitalizes on differences to foster highly effective work groups\n\n Standard VI. Performance Improvement/Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations \n\n • Assesses customer and patient satisfaction while developing and implementing strategies to address satisfaction issues\n, • Provides direct service to internal or external customers\n, • Facilitates the resolution of customer problems, issues, or concerns\n, • Monitors and promotes workplace safety requirements resulting in positive patient outcomes\n, • Applies systems thinking knowledge as an approach to analysis and decision-making\n, • Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities\n, • Provides evidence-based nursing care\n, • Promotes and communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care\n\n Standard V. Leadership \n\n • Serves as a leader of patient care\n, • Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc.\n, • Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, influence, determination, integrity, confidence\n, • Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events\n, • Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate and attain desired behaviors; increases productivity\n, • Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transformational, and associated techniques\n, • Applies techniques of “action learning” to problem solve and personally reflect on decisions\n\n Clinical Performance Improvement \n\n • Shares experiences with process performance improvements across multiple areas\n, • Recognizes recurring and difficult problems and explores new or innovative solutions\n, • Leverages technology to facilitate the sharing of clinical performance or outcomes data\n, • Compares and contrasts different approaches for performance improvement; highlights pros and cons\n, • Creates mechanism for ensuring quality and performance measures are understood and valued by nursing staff\n, • Consults on and coaches on developing business cases to justify improvement initiatives\n\n Clinical Policies and Standards \n\n • Monitors different types of clinical practice to ensure compliance with standards\n, • Evaluates existing and evolving standards and procedures and their impact on the organization\n, • Informs others on advanced clinical standards and policies across medical specialties\n, • Collaborates with other functions in establishing and documenting joint standards\n, • Participates in the development of clinical policies and practices\n, • Develops control and monitoring mechanisms for clinical policies adherence\n\n Healthcare Policy and Ethics Compliance \n\n • Shares experiences with addressing diverse problems in healthcare policy compliance\n, • Demonstrates best practices for dealing with complex compliance or non-compliance situations\n, • Guides others in making correct decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas\n, • Designs or revises organizational practices and procedures to ensure compliance with policies\n, • Supports and coaches on mechanisms that encourage attention to compliance issues; all clinical activities\n, • Participates in translating policy changes into operational programs and services\n\n Healthcare Regulatory Environment \n\n • Implements programs as needed to comply with diverse healthcare laws or regulations\n, • Monitors regulatory compliance of all healthcare practices to ensure no violations\n, • Evaluates key aspects of pending healthcare regulations and legislation that may impact company\n, • Provides recommendations and implements solutions to existing and potential legal problems\n, • Shares main considerations and issues related to laws and regulations in the implementation of healthcare practices\n, • Collaborates and communicates with all departments of healthcare organization for the preparation for external audits.\n\n Requirements: \n Education/Skills \n\n • Bachelor's Degree\n\n Experience \n\n • Minimum of 3-5 years of clinical patient care experience in a relevant setting\n, • Minimum of 2 years of healthcare leadership\n\n Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications \n\n • RN License in state of employment or compact\n, • BLS\n\n Work Schedule: \n 5 Days - 8 Hours \n Work Type: \n Full Time \n
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