Location
Houston, TX, United States
Posted on
Nov 18, 2017
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Director Patient Care - Critical Care','Full-time','Director/Manager/Supervisor','Full Time','Full Time','80','80','Occasional','Occasional','TEXAS-HOUSTON-ST LUKES MEDICAL CENTER','','!*!Baylor St. Luke’s Medical CenterA quaternary care
facility that is home of the Texas Heart® Institute, a world-class
cardiovascular research and education institution founded in 1962 by Denton A.
Cooley, MD–consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best in Cardiovascular
Services & Heart Surgery.The first hospital in Texas and the
Southwest designated a Magnet® hospital for Nursing Excellence by the American
Nurses Credentialing Center, receiving the award four consecutive times. Baylor
St. Luke’s is home to three freestanding community emergency centers (Holcombe,
Pearland, and San Felipe) offering adult and pediatric care–treating more than
51,000 patients annually. The hospital holds a collaborative partnership with
Baylor College of Medicine and affiliations with The University of Texas Medical
School at Houston, The University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston), Houston
Baptist University, and Prairie View A&M University.Director position will oversee the Thoracic ICU and Progressive ICU which encompasses two Managers, 68 FTEs and 17 beds.Position SummaryThis position is responsible for
providing and developing professional leadership in the nursing organization;
coordination, implementation, administration, and evaluation of nursing care to
patient and families; ensuring that high quality, cost effective nursing care is
delivered and works to integrate the goals of the service and the hospital.
The individual in this position will
assure the work environment adheres to regulatory requirements and departmental
practices and processes reflect high quality standards which support excellence
in patient care and a safe environment for patients, employees, physicians,
visitors, and guests. Additionally, they must assure quality standards are
implemented, maintained, and revisions to processes are updated and revised as
appropriate. It is essential they monitor metrics to validate performance
against national and system benchmarks and to ensure the delivery of competent
clinical practice is consistently achieved.','!*!Education & Licensure:Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN)Master’s degree in Nursing, MBA, or
MHARegistered Nurse (RN)
Minimum Experience:Four (4) years of nursing experience
in a tertiary acute care hospital and a minimum of five (5) years of management
experience at the nurse manager level or above.Excellent clinical and operational
skills.Leadership experience within an
academic medical center is highly preferred.Proven ability and sound knowledge
base in the areas of work group effectiveness, shared governance, and nursing
management issues.Track record of achieving effective
collaboration across departmental and organizational lines.Strong interpersonal,
communication, and organizational skills.
Minimum Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:Execution
The ability to hold people
accountable to standards of performance or ensure compliance using the power of
one’s position or force of personality appropriately and effectively, with the
long-term good of the organization in mind.The ability to engage key partners,
physicians, employees and executive leadership, and sustain their commitment to
changes in approaches, processes and strategies.The ability to work cooperatively
with others as part of a team or group, principally physicians, demonstrating
positive attitudes about the team, its members and its ability to get its
mission accomplished.The ability to speak and write in a
clear, logical and grammatical manner in formal and informal situations; to
prepare cogent business presentations representing the hospital and the health
system in a positive manner.The ability to take initiative and
anticipate obstacles, developments, and problems by looking ahead several months
to over a year and to development a long term plan strategic plan.The ability to be organizationally
aware of decision-making structures in the health system and business
partnerships.The ability to understand and use
complex statistical and financial methods and metrics to set long and short term
goals for areas assigned as well as measure operational
performance.The ability to analyze and design
or improve operational processes, including incorporating the principles or
quality management as well as customer satisfaction.
Transformation
A concern for surpassing a standard
of excellence. Using past performance, objective measures, challenging goals
and outperforming competitors to establish the new benchmark.The ability to align Baylor St.
Luke’s Medical Center priorities with the needs of other operating units, CHI
St. Luke’s Health, and the community.The ability to establish and
maintain a sound financial budget.The desire to obtain knowledge and
stay current with health, organizational, industry, and professional trends and
developments.The ability to use creative and
conceptual thinking or inductive reasoning to identify patterns or connections
between situations that are not obviously related, as well as key or underlying
issues in complex situations.The ability to draw implications
and conclusions in light of the business, economic, demographic, ethno-cultural,
political and regulatory trends and developments, and to use these insights to
develop an evolving vision for the areas assigned that results in long-term
success and viability.
Position Responsibilities:Under the direction of the Vice President Patient Care, the incumbent will
ensure provision of high quality patient care to a specified patient population
that meets the standards of local, state, and national regulatory bodies and
professional organizations.Develops leadership within the
hospital which supports and maintains excellence in the standards of research
based nursing practice.Develops, integrates, and
implements goals of the hospital and nursing into their service
line(s).Leads quality programs and works
to develop action places for continuous improvement.Develops, reviews, and maintains
fiscal budget within established targets. Monitors overtime, labor costs,
medical supply expenses, and works with purchasing partner to obtain strong
supply contract pricing.Assures staffing patterns are
flexed and according to unit activity and patient acuity.Develop and manage the annual
capital budget, establishing equipment priorities based on patient unit needs,
physician recruitment activities, and revenue potential.Develops a climate within which
professional nursing can thrive and grow.Develops a program of nursing
that ensures recruitment of the highest caliber of nurses and the most effective
retention of nurses within the service.Collaborates with other members
of the management team, physicians, and other departments to facilitate the
delivery of patient care.#LI-ER2*HEC*
','We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.','2017-R0139350','CHI St. Luke's Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center','Director Patient Care - Critical Care
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