North Florida Regional Healthcare is an organization centered around the community hospitals in Gainesville, Florida -- North Florida Regional Medical Center (NFRMC) and Lake City Medical Center (LCMC). NFRMC is a 432-bed, full-service medical and surgical acute care center serving North Central Florida and offering comprehensive cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, neurosciences, minimally-invasive laparoscopic and robotic surgery, weight loss surgery and treatment, women’s health and wound therapy, among other services.
JOB DUTIES
- 1. Maintains current knowledge of health care trends and nursing practice.
- Makes rounds routinely with physicians.
- Uses Facility Scheduler for staffing-related functions and works collaboratively with PCCS/staffing office coordinator to meet staffing needs.
- Serves as clinical consultant for staff in the delivery of patient care.
- Demonstrates effective leadership and care in emergency situations.
- Contributes to the innovation of nursing practice and applies research findings.
- Incorporates population specific national standards of nursing practice and care.
- Maintains patient care units that are consistently and aesthetically pleasing.
- Defines in writing the scope of services for the clinical unit.
- Reviews and makes recommendations, in writing, to the Chief Nursing Officer on an annual basis covering the following:
¨ Scope of care
¨ Standards of Care and Standards of Practice
- Provides leadership and direction for staffing in accordance with the organizational goals and objectives.
- Assumes authority, accountability and responsibility for the formal and informal direction of others.
- Demonstrates the ability to create, initiate, and integrate new concepts and practices to improve nursing care and/or employee satisfaction.
- Demonstrates receptiveness to and leads the implementation of change/new ideas.
- Uses measurement and analysis with objectivity and foresight to make decisions.
- Uses a systematic problem-solving process to make sound decisions in a timely manner
- Accepts and makes changes based on constructive criticism.
- Integrates the department/service into the organization's primary functions.
- Develops and implements policies and procedures which relate to the particular nursing specialty and integrates standards of care into unit operations.
- Organizes, directs, and staffs the department/service in a manner commensurate with the scope of services offered.
¨ Participates in recruitment activities.
¨ Interviews and selects appropriate categories of personnel in accordance with operational policy.
¨ Plans daily coverage according to patient needs and personnel ability.
¨ Makes provisions to cover emergency situations.
¨ Recommends changes in master staffing plan in accordance with identified needs of the unit(s).
- Maintains overall accountability/responsibility for staffing the unit(s) during all hours of operation.
- Demonstrates accountability and effectiveness in adherence to staffing guidelines.
- Demonstrates clinical expertise and/or working knowledge necessary to function as a role model.
- Directs patient care activities of all personnel.
- Demonstrates an active and positive role in evaluating staff performance and work related attributes.
¨ Counsels employees and provides documentation of exemplary and unsatisfactory work performance in timely manner (at time of occurrence), assuring appropriate follow-up.
¨ Plans and supervises an individualized orientation for new employees.
¨ Determines need and provides for in-service and continuing education of staff.
¨ Assures Department/Unit education based on:
o Patient population served and nature of service.
o Individual staff member needs.
o Information from QA/QI
o New technology, therapy or service
o Findings from employee appraisals
o Findings from peer review
o Plant, technology, safety program
o Findings from infection control committee
o Unit goals, objectives and standards
o Unit problems and resolutions
¨ Assures an evaluation of the in-service programs including program objectives, effectiveness and meeting the needs of the staff.
- Assesses and improves the performance of care and services through involvement in the performance improvement plan.
- Forwards relevant information to the appropriate person(s) responsible for coordinating organization-wide performance improvement activities.
Compensation commensurate with experience with salary range between $105-120K/yr. Must have prior Director Experience- 10+ years
