AddressProvides leadership for assigned larger departments/units/clinics, and administered assigned facilities. Guides nursing leadership toward excellence in practice. Ensures high quality, accessible and cost-effective health care services meeting needs of customers and are consistent with Regional goals and strategies. Serves as expert resource and consultant to staff and other areas across the continuum. Leads and facilitates continuous improvements to ensure customer service and efficiency. Supervises assigned staff.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Provides leadership and responsible for driving care delivery. Designs services, staffing and programs to ensure high quality patient care services at optimal controllable cost. Serves as expert resource and consultant to staff and other areas across the continuum.
- Assess and monitors clinical nursing practice for optimal patient care. Designs and evaluates processes to improve systems and patient care results across the continuum. Monitors clinical issues for resolution within assigned areas.
- Functions as liaison between administration, physician, staff, patients and other departments. Facilitates communication between physicians, staff and patients. Acts as patient advocate.
- Evaluates department goals alignment with Regional goals and strategies. Leads regional initiatives to improve member satisfaction and quality of care. Participates in or coordinates/leads various leadership, multidisciplinary teams and task forces meetings to improve patient care and services, control costs and/or meet other needs across continuum.
- Leads and facilitates continuous improvements to ensure customer service and efficiency. Provides cost-effective functioning of operations at each facility. nurses safe, attractive patient care facilities. Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements. Participates in planning process for facilities maintenance and development.
- May perform patient care to the extent necessary to maintain clinical expertise, competency, and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care on the unit.
- Provides direct patient care on an as needed basis. Provides services that are within scope of license and in compliance with all legal, regulatory, and policy requirements relevant to clinical role performed.
- Incorporates the KP Nursing Vision, Model and Values through out their Nursing Practice.
- Hires, trains, supervises, counsels, disciplines, and terminates assigned staff as appropriate. Delegates responsibility to appropriate staff. Coaches, develops, and mentors staff. Creates opportunities for improvements in areas of weaknesses.
- Communicates goals, objectives, accountabilities, priorities, and authority parameters to assigned staff.
