Clinical Director - Surgery
hace 8 días
Corpus Christi
Description Summary: Manages the nursing services and staff for a department; ensures quality and full compliance with relevant policies and standards. Responsibilities: • Implementing and monitoring programs and practices for the delivery of safe and efficient quality nursing care for patients and their families, • Ensuring consistent application of nursing services policies and standards throughout the organization, • Monitoring patient outcomes and quality and effectiveness of nursing care, • Overseeing performance of teams; identifying and addressing staff training and development needs, • Apprising medical staff, department heads, and administrators in matters related to nursing service and strategies Standard I: Financial Management • Recognizes the impact of reimbursement on revenue, • Understands the relationship between values-based purchasing and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement, • Creates, monitors, and analyzes a budget; explaining variance, • Conducts ongoing evaluation of productivity, forecasting future revenue and expenses, • Documents capital appropriations and project authorizations Standard II. Human Resources Management • Evaluates and specifies the critical resources required to accomplish the team's objectives, • Initiates requests for required resources based on staff competency with patient acuity, • Allocates team resources responsibly and equitably within the scope of labor laws, • Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison, • Discovers opportunities to improve resource utilization, • Implements changes in role consistent with scope of practice, • Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow, • Resolves conflicts in a wide variety of situations, such as workload allocation, schedule overlap etc., • Adjusts management and personal style to fit the needs of different people and different situations, • Explores motivational factors and tailors motivational efforts to individual needs and situations for the department, • Conducts evaluations on personnel performance at the work place and recommends improvement plans, • Coaches others on operating personnel management systems and their processes Standard III. Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors • Situation Management, • Identifies issues that require immediate attention, • Applies principles of crisis management to handle situations as necessary, • Manages conflict, • Promotes team dynamics, • Mentors and coaches staff, • Promotes Professional Management, • Promotes and encourages stress management, • Encourages participation in professional action, • principles of self-awareness, • Fosters a healthy work environment, • Diversity, • Maintains an environment of fairness and processes to support it, • Capitalizes on differences to foster highly effective work groups Standard VI. Performance Improvement/Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations • Assesses customer and patient satisfaction while developing and implementing strategies to address satisfaction issues, • Provides direct service to internal or external customers, • Facilitates the resolution of customer problems, issues, or concerns, • Monitors and promotes workplace safety requirements resulting in positive patient outcomes, • Applies systems thinking knowledge as an approach to analysis and decision-making, • Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities, • Provides evidence-based nursing care, • Promotes and communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care Standard V. Leadership • Serves as a leader of patient care, • Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc., • Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, influence, determination, integrity, confidence, • Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events, • Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate and attain desired behaviors; increases productivity, • Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transformational, and associated techniques Clinical Performance Improvement • Shares experiences with process performance improvements across multiple areas, • Recognizes recurring and difficult problems and explores new or innovative solutions, • Leverages technology to facilitate the sharing of clinical performance or outcomes data, • Compares and contrasts different approaches for performance improvement; highlights pros and cons, • Creates mechanism for ensuring quality and performance measures are understood and valued by nursing staff, • Consults on and coaches on developing business cases to justify improvement initiatives Clinical Policies and Standards • Monitors different types of clinical practice to ensure compliance with standards, • Evaluates existing and evolving standards and procedures and their impact on the organization, • Informs others on advanced clinical standards and policies across medical specialties, • Collaborates with other functions in establishing and documenting joint standards, • Participates in the development of clinical policies and practices, • Develops control and monitoring mechanisms for clinical policies adherence Healthcare Policy and Ethics Compliance • Shares experiences with addressing diverse problems in healthcare policy compliance, • Demonstrates best practices for dealing with complex compliance or non-compliance situations, • Guides others in making correct decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas, • Designs or revises organizational practices and procedures to ensure compliance with policies, • Supports and coaches on mechanisms that encourage attention to compliance issues; all clinical activities, • Participates in translating policy changes into operational programs and services Healthcare Regulatory Environment • Implements programs as needed to comply with diverse healthcare laws or regulations, • Monitors regulatory compliance of all healthcare practices to ensure no violations, • Evaluates key aspects of pending healthcare regulations and legislation that may impact company, • Provides recommendations and implements solutions to existing and potential legal problems, • Shares main considerations and issues related to laws and regulations in the implementation of healthcare practices Job Requirements: Work Schedule: 8AM - 5PM Monday-Friday Work Type: Full Time