Cno - University Of Kansas Health System St. Francis

Overview
Ardent Health Services invests in quality healthcare.
Ardent Health Services, located in Nashville, Tennessee, has earned a reputation as one of the industry's strongest - and most innovative hospital operators. We are driven by our purpose of caring for people: our patients, their families and one another. Our facilities and clinics are consistently recognized among healthcare's best employers.
To support operations, Ardent invested more than $1.4 billion since 2001 to raise the standard of care in the communities we serve. Additionally, Ardent has invested $220 million in Epic, towards uniting our hospitals and clinics on a single information-sharing platform to improve patient outcomes and increase efficient care delivery. We recognize each hospital is as unique as the community it serves. We strive to maintain strong community ties through advisory boards, contributions, charitable care, education and outreach.
Ardent includes:

• 30 Hospitals
• 200+ Sites of Car
• 4,453 Beds
• 23,000+ Team Members
• 6,919 Nurses
• 1,438 Aligned Providers
• 3.2 Million Annual Provider Encounters
• $5.1 Billion in Revenues

Ardent Health Services invests in quality healthcare. AHS makes considerable investments in people, technology, facilities, and communities, producing high quality care and extraordinary results. Since 2001, those investments total more than $1.4 billion. From newly constructed facilities and expanded services, to lifesaving technology and outstanding opportunities for employees, AHS is committed to providing its hospitals and clinics the tools needed to succeed.
OUR PURPOSE is caring for people: our patients, their families and one another.
We believe it is this mix of corporate support and local autonomy that equips our facilities for success.
The University of Kansas Health System (UKHS) St. Francis Campus in Topeka, Kansas is a joint venture between The University of Kansas Health System and Nashville-based Ardent Health Services. UKHS St. Francis Campus began serving its community in 1909 as the mission of a group of Catholic nuns who rose up to meet a need. Over a century later, St. Francis consists of a 378-bed acute care regional hospital, an Ambulatory Surgical Center, an Urgent Care Network and 15 outpatient clinics. The hospital offers a comprehensive cardiovascular services program and an accredited Cancer Center. The surgical services program also includes general surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, urology, ENT, GYN, plastics, and podiatry. We offer diagnostic services both at the hospital and at an off-campus location. UKHS St. Francis Campus is a Joint Commission certified Advanced Primary Stroke Center and Stroke Rehabilitation Center, an Accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI and Resuscitation, an accredited Comprehensive Community Cancer Program, and a designated Baby-Friendly birth facility. UKHS St. Francis Campus is also a recipient of Get with the Guidelines-Stroke Gold plus Quality Achievement Award.
Job Overview:
We are currently recruiting for a dynamic leader to join University of Kansas Health SystemSt. Francis (UKHS) as the Chief Nursing Officer.
The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is responsible for providing leadership, direction, and administration of activities relating to patient care, nursing practice, nursing education, and clinical development across the hospital. 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. The CNO shall perform all duties in strict compliance with federal, state and local law, rules and regulation, including the prompt reporting of any incident in which the rights of employees, patient and visitors or other practitioners may have been violated.
Responsibilities
Achieve Clinical and Operational Excellence

• Strategize and drive process improvements. These may focus on innovative care delivery and operational models designed to improve clinical services, outcomes, patient throughput, and patient safety.
• Promote the use and implementation of technology in order to streamline operations, facilitate communications, and optimize work processes.
• Collaborate with other teams for the implementation of programs, policies, and procedures that address how patient care needs are assessed, met, and evaluated.

• Ensures that patient services are of optimal value by continually improving quality, patient experience, and cost effectiveness. Assures patient care services are safe, promotes patient-centeredness and engages patients.

• Allocate financial, information, and human capital for improvement activities to ensure delivery of cost effective and efficient services to patients, physicians, and hospital departments.
• Promote interdisciplinary collaboration to all practicing nurses about the importance of partnerships with patients, families, and other disciplines to ensure a comprehensive care plan.
• Enhance quality outcomes by partnering with leadership for shared clinical decision making, but maintain overall responsibility for all of patient care. CNO has overall responsibility for patient care.

• Partners with nursing and clinical leadership to ensure that patient care is delivered according to industry best practices, regulatory standards, Joint Commission standards, Magnet standards, etc.

Foster Growth and Development

• Serve as a member of the executive leadership team with a focus on building and supporting relationships with internal and external constituents and stakeholders and ensuring optimal operating effectiveness and strategic positioning.
• Assume an active role with the hospital's governing body, senior leadership, medical staff, management, and other clinical leaders in the hospital's decision-making structure and process.

• Develop talent and leaders who delegate, empower, and hold others accountable for achieving quality and safety outcomes; fosters the professional growth and development of both leaders and staff/
• Serves as change leader, uses change theory to implement and support change.

• Promote relationships with community organizations to improve patient outcomes and the health of the communities served.
• Establish structures, processes, and expectations that support lifelong professional learning, role development, and career growth.
• Collaborate with directors in hiring, orientation, evaluation, discipline, and education of clinical staff.
• Round on patients, families, employees, and physicians to enrich communication, ensure alignment, oversee operations, and ensure that the experience is positive.

Day-to-Day Activity

• Establish methods to ensure that nurses organization-wide are involved in shared-governance and decision-making structures and processes that establish standards of practice and address issues of concern.
• Assure the flow of information and decision-making is bi-directional and horizontal among all professional nurses, the CNO, and the leadership team.
• Establish and enhance a culture of evidence-based practice in clinical, management initiatives and
• Approve nursing policies, nursing standards of patient care, treatment, and services.
• Integrate nursing practice with the mission, vision, philosophy, behavior standards, and values established by the organization.
• Ensure that the care delivery system promotes continuous, consistent, efficient, and accountable patient care.
• Communicate with impact in order to effectively engage others and achieve desired results.
• Recognize the broad and long-term implications of business decisions and plans.
• Promote consistent and positive patient interactions with the goal of providing exceptional patient service.
• Adhere to the "Code of Conduct" and "Behavior Standards."
• Complies with all federal, state and local laws, regulations, and standards as they relate to nursing.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree nursing required
• Master's degree nursing or related field required
• 5+ years of experience in clinical nurse leadership and experience as a Chief Nursing Officer required
• Demonstrated project management skills and/or six sigma methodology
• Current licensure as a registered professional nurse (RN) in the state in which he or she practices, in accordance with law and regulation required

Behavior Standards:

• Service - Patient Centered Customer Service
• Quality - Clinical and Operational Excellence
• People - Promotes a Collaborative Environment
• Financial - Business Acumen
• Growth - Fosters Innovation

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