AVP of Nursing
Osage Beach-MO-65065-United States
Lake Regional Health System is looking for AVP of Nursing oversees the nursing staff and overall nursing operations of their healthcare facility. Their duties include evaluating and directing all nursing employees, establishing goals for the nursing department and creating and enforcing compliant healthcare policies.
Demonstrates an understanding of the need for customer satisfaction; promotes, and provides patient-focused services, and is responsive to the needs of all customers.
- Role models professional nursing practice and behavior.
- Works cooperatively with others as part of a team or group.
- Demonstrates a positive attitude.
- Communicates effectively as evidenced by: delivering bad news in such a manner to maintain credibility, follows through on issues, provides customer service, showing empathy and concern while ensuring organizational goals are met, accomplishes objectives through persuasion, celebrating successes and accomplishments, and communicating a shared vision.
- Prepares business presentations and can facilitate a group.
- Is able to establish, build and sustain professional contacts.
- Supports staff and takes a personal interest in coaching and mentoring.
- Create an environment in which others are setting expectations and holding each other accountable.
- Assists with recruitment, retention, interviewing, hiring, counseling, and providing disciplinary action.
- Embraces shared decision-making by energizing staff and others in decision-making that is patient-centered in an environment that is conducive to discussion and opinion sharing.
- Supports the Culture of One values and this is demonstrated in daily actions.
Performs leadership effectively and in a timely manner to ensure safe operation of the services provided while ensuring compliance with all regulatory agencies including CMS, State, Joint Commission, and OSHA.
- The ability to analyze and design or improve organizational processes, including incorporating the principles of quality management.
- Demonstrates ethical and professional practices.
- Is a community resource to include working closely with the schools of nursing
- Works with others to design, facilitate and maintain effective PI education and in PI teams.
- The ability to see an accurate view of own strengths and development needs.
- Coordinates the formulation of nursing, employee health, and infection control policies and procedures.
- Assures staff competency.
- Has a solid understanding of the Harm Scorecard and initiatives driving a Zero Harm environment.
- Places priority focus on safe patient care and high-quality outcomes.
Functions within the established budgetary guidelines utilizing sound financial principles.
- The ability to plan, execute and maintain a budget.
- The ability to understand and explain financial and accounting information.
- The ability to mentor direct reports regarding the budgetary process, staffing plans, purchasing practices, policy, and financial principles.
- Works closely with units to reduce or eliminate the use of Agency personnel.
- The ability to plan and execute a large project with significant scope to include the development of a new service line.
Makes an active contribution to the accomplishment of the strategic plans and goals of the organization.
- A concern for surpassing the standard of excellence. Challenges goals, results-oriented. Innovative.
- The ability to align goals with organizational priorities. Understand and be able to articulate the strategic objectives set forth by the board of directors and the administrative team.
- Stays current with health, organizational, industry, and professional trends and developments.
- The ability to draw implications and conclusions from business, economic, demographic, cultural, political, and regulatory trends.
Annual influenza vaccine required.
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