Chief Nursing Officer / Nurse Executive

Job Description

Job Description

The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) has overall authority for providing leadership, direction, and administration of direct patient care activities, nursing practice, nursing education, and development across the organization. The CNO is responsible for driving, supporting, and modeling a culture focused on employee engagement, quality, patient safety, fiscal responsibility, and the overall patient experience.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Strategizes and drives process improvements focused on innovative care delivery and / or operational models designed to improve clinical services, outcomes, patient throughput, and patient safety.
• Promotes the use and implementation of technology in the workplace in order to streamline operations, facilitate communications, and optimize work processes.
• Collaborates with other disciplines for the implementation of programs, policies, and procedures that address how patient care needs of the patient population served are assessed, met and evaluated.
• Ensures patient and family-centered care is comprehensive and coordinated and monitored for effectiveness through the quality improvement model that leads to systematic improvements over time resulting in outcomes measures that outperform benchmark statistics of the national database used inpatient and nursing-sensitive indicators.
• Allocates financial, information, and human capital for improvement activities, ensuring efficient delivery of cost-effective and efficient services to patients, physicians, and hospital departments.
• Promotes interdisciplinary collaboration with clear expectations and direction to all practicing nurses about the importance of partnerships with patients and families, and with all disciplines to ensure a comprehensive care plan.
• Enhances quality outcomes by partnering with leadership (CMO and / or Chief Of Staff and / or President of Medical Staff) for shared clinical decision making, but has overall responsibility for all patient care.

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