Administrative Director - Nursing Operations

Position Summary

The Administrative Director for Nursing Operations serves on various hospital committees and collaborates with Orlando Health leadership, Hospital President and administration, the hospital management team, hospital medical staff leadership and the medical staff. Key components of this leadership role include monitoring quality and budgeting standards, ensuring patient satisfaction, and effectively managing to achieve hospital and organization-wide goals. This position is responsible for providing direction and oversight for multiple operational areas and/or multiple department leaders.

This position is located at Bayfront Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL

Responsibilities

• Evaluates the environment and makes recommendations to ensure optimal patient comfort, safety, and compliance with various standards of care, regulatory/governing bodies.
• Plans, leads, organizes, directs, and evaluates the delivery of patient care to achieve sustained outcomes.
• Facilitates a healthy environment that promotes patient and team member safety, high reliability of processes, and quality outcomes.
• Embraces workplace diversity and participates in organizational policy formulation and decision-making.
• Ensures that a continual improvement approach is implemented to measure actual performance against established standards for nursing and patient care.
• Serves as an agent of change, assisting leaders and team members in understanding the importance, necessity, impact, and process of change.
• Analyzes, develops, and maintains an effective and efficient nursing delivery model that reflects patient and family needs, ultimately achieving desired outcomes.
• Integrates technology to support the improvement of patient care and workload of team members.
• Manages team members, overseeing recruitment, development, retention, supervision, evaluation, and productivity.
• Demonstrates proficiency in sound business practices and operational excellence.
• Applies key financial principles and organizational financial targets to departmental projects/budgets.
• Achieves financial and operational benchmarks by developing capital and operating budgets and monitoring all operational expenses.
• Ensures the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidenced-based, quality clinical nursing practices consistent with nursing research, organizational and national practice standards.
• Demonstrates initiative and situational leadership skills.
• Embraces, communicates, and promotes effective change.
• Ensures the patient experience is exceptional.
• Serves as a liaison to administration for team members.
• Demonstrates professional accountability by maintaining proficiency in assigned role and involvement in professional organizations.
• Facilitates and supports team member involvement in professional and organizational activities.
• Upholds self and staff accountable to comply with ethical principles, corporate compliance, and standards of practice.
• Holds self and others accountable to Orlando Health’s mission, vision, and values.
• Manages various human resources functions including hiring, work assignments, coaching plans, and performance counseling.

Qualifications

Education/Training

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required.
• Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) or graduate degree in business or health-related field required.

Licensure/Certification

• Current professional license as a registered nurse in the State of Florida or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC).
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• National leadership board certification through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC); NEA-BC within two (2) years.
• May require one or more of the following certifications based on the assigned patient population: * Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) * Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) * Neonatal Advanced Life Support (NALS) * Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC)

Experience

• Two (2) years of experience in management of an acute care or outpatient setting.