Nursing Director - Women's Newborn Services
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Master's
Columbus, OH, USA
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Medical, Clinical & Veterinary
About the job
Requirements
- A Master's Degree with a focus in Nursing or a related field is required.
- Current Basic Life Support Provider certification from the American Heart Association is required.
- A current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in Ohio is required.
- A graduate degree in nursing or a related field from a program including organizational science and management concepts is required.
- Knowledge of administrative concepts, organizational behavior, change management, management processes including planning and budgeting, nursing practice standards, process management and improvement, program development, evidence-based concepts, legal and ethical matters, computer applications in healthcare, healthcare economics, health and public policy, consumer health issues, and healthcare evaluation and outcome measures is required.
- Demonstrated interpersonal, verbal communication, written communication, and adult-learning skills are required.
- Five years of management experience and three years of clinical nursing experience in a healthcare setting are required.
Responsibilities
- Ensure delivery of quality patient care by nursing personnel and other staff in the designated area through effective planning, organization, and evaluation of material, fiscal, and human resources.
- Integrate the nursing philosophy with the organization's mission, vision, values, goals, and objectives in department operations.
- Provide direction and supervision to managers, nurse administrators, and other specialty roles.
- Collaborate with the Chief Nursing Officer to ensure one standard of care and practice for professional nursing throughout the organization.
- Assume 24-hour accountability for ongoing patient-care delivery for a division or service line consisting of multiple nursing or patient-care units and areas.
- Maintain awareness of daily operations to guide patient-care delivery and participate in strategic planning, service-line growth, and practice innovation.
- Provide leadership and guidance to managerial and support staff in daily patient-care operations.
- Assist managerial and support staff in identifying and resolving ethical and interdepartmental issues.
- Participate in process-improvement activities and root-cause-analysis investigations.
- Provide guidance to managers regarding performance-related issues.
- Provide leadership in determining clinical, scholarly, and administrative nursing goals and the functions and processes required to achieve them.
- Participate in developing and implementing the hospital plan for providing patient care by monitoring and recommending productivity levels for nursing personnel.
- Acquire, allocate, and evaluate human, material, and financial resources for assigned functions and processes.
- Develop and administer annual capital and operating budgets within the assigned scope, monitor variances, and take corrective action.
- Collaborate with other departments to ensure efficient and effective patient-care activities.
- Establish and maintain clinical and administrative records and reporting systems that meet regulatory and licensing standards and support administrative action.
- Ensure culturally competent care and a safe and healthy working environment.
- Participate in developing, implementing, and evaluating organizational policies, procedures, and programs at the executive level.
- Participate in organizational committees and decision-making.
- Interpret and facilitate application of organizational philosophy, objectives, and standards, and monitor achievement of relevant objectives and standards.
- Provide leadership for a professional nursing practice environment in which registered nurses govern their practice and are accountable for safe, effective, efficient, and compassionate care.
- Facilitate participative management and collegial relationships among nursing and other organizational staff.
- Collaborate with professional disciplines to achieve organizational healthcare goals and build interdepartmental relationships.
- Serve as a professional role model and mentor to motivate, recruit, and retain professional and unlicensed personnel.
- Identify methods to achieve and monitor compliance with regulatory-agency requirements.
- Manage nursing practice, nursing education and professional development, and nursing research for an individual service line.
- Implement programs to measure, assess, and improve the quality and appropriateness of nursing care.
- Ensure innovation and ongoing evaluation of departmental services.
- Support outcome measurement and evidence-based practice.
- Use data from various sources to initiate quality and process improvement within the department.
- Develop, implement, and evaluate nursing-care standards, policies and procedures, job descriptions, competency assessments, and nursing documentation systems.
- Evaluate safety, outcomes, effectiveness, cost, and social impact of patient-care services.
- Support the conduct, dissemination, integration, and utilization of research for evidence-based nursing practice, healthcare, and management systems.
- Advocate for resources supporting research and facilitate dissemination of research findings and integration of evidence-based guidelines and practices.
- Identify clinical and administrative inquiry areas suitable for nurse researchers.
- Identify key departmental success measures based on organizational goals and objectives, monitor progress, and develop actions to attain goals.
- Communicate goals to staff and others in the organization.
- Maintain professional competencies through educational and leadership programs and participation in professional and community organizations.
- Seek opportunities for publication, presentation, and professional leadership in professional and community societies.
- Promote a learning environment and encourage and facilitate staff and management participation in internal and external educational activities.
- Serve as a link between nursing staff and other healthcare disciplines within and outside organized nursing services.
- Contribute to manager development in administrative, leadership, and managerial skills and personal and professional goals to prepare managers for increased responsibilities.
- Focus on safety, quality, and efficiency as part of the organization's High Reliability Organization responsibilities.
About the company
OhioHealth runs a not-for-profit, faith-based health system that operates 16 hospitals and 200+ care sites across 50 Ohio counties, supported by more than 35,000 associates, providers, and volunteers. It delivers inpatient, urgent, primary, and specialty care through an integrated network that coordinates preventive, outpatient, and hospital services. Its not-for-profit, faith-based identity, broad Ohio coverage, and strong employer and community trust distinguish it from many competitors who prioritize profit. Its goal is to improve the health of people in its communities by providing accessible, comprehensive healthcare across its network.
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$13.9M
Headquarters
Columbus, Ohio
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- September 2026 property buys secure Hamilton Quarter and Big Lots campus adjacency.
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- June 2026 DOJ settlement bans OhioHealth steering clauses for ten years.
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- Antitrust scrutiny plus the 2026 class-action threat can crush payer leverage.
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- OhioHealth runs 16 hospitals and 200-plus ambulatory sites across 50 counties.
- Its 2026 buildout spans Riverside, Grant, Dublin, Ontario, and central Ohio.
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