Director of Nursing, Adult Acute Care Services

Department Overview

Lead adult patient care at OHSU through exciting new growth and innovation. 

 

Oregon Health & Science University is dedicated to improving the health and quality of life for all Oregonians through excellence, innovation and leadership in health care, education and research. We are growing to meet the most urgent needs of paients of all ages who require the highest level of hospital care for cancer and other complex conditions. 

 

We're proud to be:

• Magnet designated facility
• Oregon’s only Public Academic Health Center
• Level 1 Trauma Center
• A nationally recognized Cancer Center
• A hospital that believes in the power of nurse leaders to drive change 

 

Adult Acute Care Services Includes:

• Transplant/Urology/Plastics
• Medicine
• Orthopedic/Spine
• General Surgery
• Epilepsy Monitoring
• Cardiovascular Intermediate Care
• Trauma
• Dialysis

Function/Duties of Position

The Nursing Director is a Registered Nurse (RN) responsible for upholding excellence in the provision of nursing care through the implementation of the Professional Practice Model. The Nursing Director is responsible for operational, human resource, quality, and financial management of the assigned department. The Nursing Director utilizes professional practice as the foundation for leading nursing practice.

 

The Nursing Director collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to translate and implement organizational and divisional priorities into the department’s operations. The Nursing Director implements quality and safety initiatives, leads process improvement, and ensures adherence to hospital and clinical standards of performance. The Nursing Director ensures a patient care environment that supports a safe, knowledgeable, compassionate, productive, and engaged staff. The Nursing Director partners with the interdisciplinary care team to ensure the delivery of safe, quality patient care and compliance with administrative, regulatory, and clinical policies and procedures.

 

The Nursing Director’s decisions and actions are based on the ethical principles outlined by the American Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics for Nursing. The Nursing Director practices in adherence with the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice for Nurse Administrators, the ANA Code of Ethics for Nursing, the Oregon State Board of Nursing’s Nurse Practice Act, and within the context of the Nurse Executive Competencies developed by the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE). The Nursing Director exemplifies the principles of the OHSU Culture of Safety Position Statement by committing to a Just Culture, a Reporting Culture, a Learning Culture, and an Engaged Informed Culture.

 

Strategic Planning:

• Partners with others to develop a department strategic plan that aligns with the division strategic plan and nursing’s vision.
•  Collaboratively formulates department objectives, goals and specific strategies related to initiatives.
• Distributes leadership to achieve strategic targets.
• Develops short and long-term goals that identify the target conditions.
• Coordinates the implementation of interventions to meet department-level goals.
• Communicates, implements, and evaluates the unit strategic plan.

 Operational Leadership

• Partners with others to enhance healthcare and, ultimately patient care through interdisciplinary activities, such as education, consultation, management, technological development, or research opportunities.
• Applies systems theory with an understanding that how parts of a system relate to the overall system.
• Maintains knowledge of current nursing practice and the roles and functions of care team members (e.g. charge nurse, code team, RRT)
• Evaluates staff’s competency and intervenes to optimize performance and ensure safe, quality, effective and efficient patient care. 
• Leads and practices patient/family advocacy and promotes patient-centered decisions and outcomes.
• Maintains visibility and open communication with the staff and department leadership
• Communicates plans and decisions to department staff and other stakeholders.
• Asserts view in a non-judgmental manner.
• Ensures the care environment supports the provision of safe quality care, and a work place that promotes shared decision-making, accountability, autonomy and engagement.
• Reflects on own method of decision-making and the role of beliefs, values and inferences to develop leader