Director Nursing Support Svcs

Overview

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care neuroscience oncology transplantation and more.

Our team’s efforts have led to the creation of many research programs and initiatives to develop advanced treatments found nowhere else in the world.

In our commitment to advancing standards in an ever-evolving healthcare environment our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients visitors staff and physicians.

The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care research and education.

Our strong alliance with Texas Heart Institute and Baylor College of Medicine allows us to bring our patients a powerful network of care unlike any other.

Our collaboration is focused on increasing access to care through a growing network of leading specialists and revolutionizing healthcare to save lives and improve the health of the communities we serve.

The Director of Nursing Support Services is responsible for coordinating hospital professional nursing practice, and supporting departmental staffing and hospital operations.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the daily oversight of staffing operations for the entity to include but is not limited to providing leadership for the house supervisors / administrators, management of contingency labor, serving as the local Care Value Administrator if applicable, local staffing pools and collaborates with clinical leaders to ensure 24 / 7 staffing plans are developed to meet the care needs of patients.
• Collaborates with the Patient Placement Center to ensure bed placement guidelines are developed and implemented; leads organizational throughput efforts
• Collaborates with other clinical leaders to advance clinical process, system improvement, and sharing of resources
• Leads specific clinical and operational projects inclusive of action planning and implementation and outcome achievement;

collaborates with all disciplines across the entity inclusive of medical staff

Collaborates with the Magnet Program Director to ensure a consistent state of readiness or is responsible for the coordination of the Pathway and or Magnet Program(community hospitals);

may include responsibility for National Sensitive Nursing Quality Indicators capture, submission and monitoring

• Serves as a clinical resource; supports and leads quality initiatives.
• Supports and mentors shared decision making process and clinical advancement philosophy; supports shared governance structures and professional practice
• Utilizes lean principles to foster operational improvement in patient centeredness, quality of care and cost effectiveness.
• Maintains knowledge of regulatory requirements and seeks to keep clinical areas continuously in compliance.

Qualifications

Required Educatiuon and Experience :

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing ( BSN ) and 5 years of leadership experience

Master’s Degree and 3 years of leadership experience (if Master’s Degree is not in Nursing must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing)