Director of Nursing- Acute and Emergency Care Services

Job Description

The nurse director co-creates a culture of excellence, innovation, and transformation with professional nurses, other leaders, and Associates. The nursing director fosters healthy work environments, advances professional autonomy, clinical competences, and safe, ethical, and high-quality nursing care; and assures that nurses are allowed to practice within their full scope. The main goal is to assure the alignment of nursing's goals, activities, and practices with the values and mission of the organization, governing boards, and constituencies. In addition to accountability for the direction of nursing practice, nurse administrators are responsible for the oversight and direction of all aspects of the clinical or educational enterprise. Nurse director has core accountabilities for the following:

• safety, quality, and risk
• patient and population health advocacy
• clinical care delivery and optimal patient outcomes
• healthy work environment
• strategic, financial, and human resource management
• legal and regulatory compliance
• networking, partnering, and collaboration
• accountability/advocacy for their Associates.
  
  

Nurse director, at this level of influence, has line authority over a service line, nursing functions or multiple units that have registered nurses working who deliver nursing care in inpatient, hospital outpatient departments, or ambulatory care settings. At Nemours Children's Hospital these may include but are not limited to, acute care, critical care, cardiac services, transport, and perioperative services . The nursing director reports directly or indirectly to the Chief Nursing Officer/VP Patient Care Services. The nurse director is charged with handling the daily operation of multiple units or departments. Typically, the nursing director is supported by a unit manager(s) who executes daily operations within defined clinical area(s). The nurse director efforts are directed toward program management, including program goals, objectives, and quality organizational outcomes. The nursing director mobilizes internal and external stakeholders to assure programmatic goals and objectives are met.

Position Responsibilities

The Standards of Nursing Administration Practice are authoritative statement of the duties for all nurse administrators.

STANDARDS OF PRACTICE FOR NURSING ADMINISTRATION

• Assessment: Collect comprehensive pertinent data and information relative to the situation, issues, problem, or trend.
• Identification of Problems, Issues, and Trends: Analyze the assessment data to identify problems, issues, and trends.
• Outcomes Identification: Identify expected outcomes for a plan tailored to the system, organization, or population, problem, issues, or tend.
• Planning: Develop a plan that defines, articulates, and establishes strategies and alternative to attain expected, measurable outcomes.
• Implementation: Implement the identified plan.
• Coordination: Implement the plan and associated processes.
• Promotion of Health, Education, and a Safe Environment: Establish strategies to promote health, education, and a safe environment.
• Evaluation: Evaluate progress towards attainment of goals outcomes.
  
  

STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE FOR NURSING ADMINISTRATION

• Ethics: Practice ethically.
• Culturally Congruent Practice: Practice in a safe manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
• Communication: Communicate effectively in in all areas of practice.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with health care consumers, colleagues, community leaders, and other stakeholders to advance nursing proactive and health care transformation.
• Leadership: Lead within the professional practice setting, profession, health care industry, and society.
• Education: Attain knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice and promotes futuristic thinking.
• Evidence-Based Practice and Research: Integrate evidence and research findings in to practice.
• Quality of Practice: Contribute to quality nursing practices.
• Professional Practice Evaluation: Evaluate one's own and others' nursing practice
• Resource Utilization: Utilize appropriate resources to plan, allocate, provide, and sustain evidence-based, high quality nursing services that are person, population, or community centered, culturally appropriate, safe, timely, effective, and fiscally responsible.
• Environmental Health: Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
• Assume responsibilities of Nurse Executive, as needed.
  
  

Position Requirements

• Current Florida RN license required at hire
• Current American Heart Association BLS Health Care Provider course completion required upon hire.
• Master’s degree in nursing leadership, management, policy, or administration required (must hold BSN and/or Graduate degree in Nursing)
• Professional certification in nursing administration or other relevant management or applicable specialty; obtain within one (1) year of eligibility and maintain national certification, preferred.
  
  

About Us

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.

To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org .