The largest medical facility in the region, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center (EIRMC) is a modern, Joint Commission-accredited, 330-bed full-service hospital located in Idaho Falls.
EIRMC serves as the region’s healthcare hub, offering specialty services including cardiovascular surgery, leading-edge cancer treatment, trauma, neurosurgery, intensive care for adults and infants, and a helicopter and ground medical rescue service.
The Nursing Director (RN) provides oversight and direction to the post-Surgical department, Orthopedics Department and Intermediate Surgical Center. The Nursing Director (RN) is responsible for effectively directing the delivery of patient care that promotes the safety and well-being of all patients in the assigned departments on a 24-hour, 7 days/week basis. The Nursing Director has a broad vision for service lines he/she is responsible for. The Nursing Director espouses the mission, values and ethics of the corporation, hospital and nursing department and serves as a professional role model.
Service
- Defines an environment that will foster a culture of service.
- Facilitates interdepartmental communication.
- Provides direction and sets goals, with program coordinator, to achieve and maintain centers of excellence. Defines customer satisfaction strategic goals and is accountable for results and improvement.
- Responsible for inter- and intradepartmental conflict resolution and outcomes.
Quality
- Director is accountable for patient and staff safety.
- Develops service line/department QI plan and ensures quality improvement processes are in place and yielding optimal outcomes.
- Provides direction for risk management, in collaboration with Risk Manager.
- Develops processes to reduce risk and prevent occurrences.
- Is responsible for JCAHO performance and regulatory compliance.
- Improves delivery of care by assessing need for and implementing redesign.
- Leads effort to obtain magnet hospital status.
Financial
- Director ties budgeting functions to Strategic Planning process.
- Provides direction and oversight for budget, and final approval at department level.
- Is responsible to ensure compliance with budget.
- Supports Case Management and Utilization Review initiatives.
- Is responsible to provide direction and oversight, and to ensure compliance with productivity standards for each department.
- Provides direction for identifying cost-saving opportunities.
People
- Director ensures that department has needed resources (i.e., staff, education) to facilitate optimal performance.
- Serves as interdepartmental liaison and maintains open lines of communication between Administration, physicians, managers/staff, and patients/families in all departments.
- Ensures high quality performance of staff.
- Is responsible for developing recruitment and retention plan for department.
- Is accountable for fair, consistent application and adherence to policies and procedures.
Growth
- Director ensures successful implementation of strategic initiatives.
- Creates service line vision to identify new opportunities for expansion of existing services and development of new services in concert with strategic initiatives.
- Collaborates with Community Relations to market service lines and accomplish outreach initiatives.
- Bachelors of Nursing “BSN” degree from an accredited school of nursing.
- Master’s degree preferred.
- Current Idaho Registered Nurse license, AHA CPR for Healthcare Providers certification and all hospital mandatory requirements.
- Demonstrated successful experience in management with financial responsibilities, minimum requirement of 2 years of management experience.
- Minimum of 3 years nursing experience in an Orthopedic or similar unit
- Experience managing interactions with physicians, nursing staff, staff in other departments, patients, families and the public effectively.
- Must have the sensitivity, maturity and ability to communicate clearly and concisely.
- Strong leadership abilities including professionalism, common sense, critical thinking skills, flexibility, honesty, and a service oriented attitude.
Compensation commensurate with experience with salary range of $72-$100K, with bonus top end of 15% (average payout around 10%). Sign on and Relo assistance available.
