Director of Nursing
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About the Role
Lead nursing teams, ensure care standards, manage budgets, and promote professional development while advocating for patient-centered care and collaboration.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and lead a learning culture amongst the nursing team.
- Establish, monitor, and ensure professional standards of care within the Nursing Department.
- Participate in the Hospital Management Executive Committee and develop hospital plans, programs, and policies.
- Develop and update written policies and procedures for nursing personnel.
- Oversee the overall administration of the Nursing Departments and maintain quality of nursing care.
- Ensure ongoing education programs for nurses are established.
- Investigate and take action on matters of concern, reporting findings to relevant departments.
- Develop strategic, operational, and fiscal goals and manage budgets.
Requirements
- Registered Nurse with leadership experience
- Experience in nursing administration or management
- Knowledge of healthcare regulations and accreditation standards
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
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Job Overview
- The Director of Nursing is responsible for leading the nursing team, ensuring professional standards, and participating in hospital management.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and lead a learning culture amongst the nursing team.
- Establish, monitor, and ensure professional standards of care are maintained within the Nursing Department.
- Be a member of the Hospital Management Executive Committee and participate in development of hospital plans, programs, and policies.
- Be responsible for written policies and procedures that guide nursing personnel.
- Work with HR’s Performance Improvement Management Plan.
- Be responsible for overall administration of the Nursing Departments.
- Ensure programs and standards for ongoing education of nurses are established.
- Ensure the Nursing Department is informed of hospital policies, regulations, and accreditation standards.
- Investigate and take appropriate action on matters of concern.
- Ensure any sentinel or serious incident triggers a Nursing Process Review.
- Establish and ensure written Standing Orders and Regulations for the Nursing Department.
- Facilitate communication between nurses and other healthcare disciplines.
Additional Responsibilities
- Chair or delegate authority for Nursing Department meetings.
- Ensure nursing staff representatives are appointed to hospital committees.
- Serve on administrative and other hospital committees as requested.
- Assist in determining departmental priorities and resource allocation.
- Develop staffing requirements and participate in recruitment planning.
- Participate in facility planning affecting the Nursing Department.
- Undertake annual staff appraisals.
- Promote core values and ensure implementation of department philosophy.
- Foster a climate of professional challenge and growth.
- Be familiar with and lead emergency and evacuation procedures.
- Advocate for nursing to hospital leadership.
- Develop strategic, operational, and fiscal goals.
Financial Responsibilities
- Ensure realistic and cost effective operational and capital budgets are developed and implemented.
- Oversee departmental operating expenses and plan capital equipment purchases.
- Establish and meet budgetary targets and maximize ancillary revenue capture.
NMC Nursing Mission, Vision, and Values
- Our Nursing Vision: At NMC Healthcare, we are committed to providing clinical excellence through safe, compassionate, and individualized care to every patient, every time.
- Our Nursing Mission: To exemplify clinical excellence, every NMC nurse will seek to do the right thing, be the patient’s advocate, be open and transparent, deliver safe compassionate care, recognize uniqueness of each patient, contribute to outstanding patient experience, engage with learning cultur
- Our Nursing Values: Safety, Excellence, Ethics, Trust, Collaboration.
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