Assistant Vice President (AVP), Nursing Services

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Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Job Summary:

The Assistant Vice President (AVP) Nursing Services serves as a leader of the Cobb Hospital, in Austell, GA, Nursing Leadership team, and is responsible for assisting with performance excellence in Nursing Practice and Clinical Operations. This role supports the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO). The focus of this role is to implement key initiatives and innovations that contribute to the plan, coordination and leadership of nursing and clinical performance in the provision of high quality cost-effective care delivering value to our patients and the communities that we serve.
The AVP Nursing Services works in partnership with site leaders to foster an interdisciplinary team approach to the overall delivery of care to patients, families, and the community. This leader brings an in-depth knowledge of nursing operations from a clinical, quality, practice, and emerging models of care perspective. This individual will partner with site nursing leaders to assess best-practice and opportunities to optimize to meet the needs of a large quaternary site.
The AVP of Nursing Services at Cobb Hospital will assist with execution of quality initiatives and facilitate work that produces site benchmark performance in the nurse sensitive indicators and other quality indicators. The leader will implement action plans to improve and sustain patient experience measures that support a world-class experience. The AVP will collaborate with the site nursing leaders to ensure constant regulatory and accreditation readiness. The leader will assist with facilitation of a robust shared governance environment to prepare for the Magnet journey. The individual will partner with Talent Acquisition on the recruitment of talented staff and assist with retention efforts. The AVP will serve as a mentor for the Executive Directors of Nursing and nursing managers.
As a member of the Cobb Hospital Nursing team, this leader is responsible for ensuring that all regulatory laws that govern Cobb Hospital are upheld. It is expected this leader is licensed, knowledgeable and upholds the practice of nursing as outlined by the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act and implements the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards put forth by the American Nurses Association.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Patient Satisfaction/ Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers & Systems (HCAHPS)
* Create and maintain an environment focused on caregivers, processes, environment and patients
* personal issues as reflected in patient satisfaction measurements.
* Actively participate in the routine review of patient satisfaction measurements and outcomes.
* Implement action plans to improve and sustain measures that support a world-class patient experience.
Exemplary Practice and Outcomes
* Holds self and staff to the highest professional standards and ethics ensuring corporate compliance standards etc. are met by leaders and staff. Is an active member of ones professional community and serves as a role model for professional nursing practice and nursing leadership advances the field through transformational executive leadership, support of shared governance, and scholarly activity
* Possesses exemplary oral and written communication skills
* Masters excellent partnership and teamwork skills with other members of the leadership team, physicians/other colleagues, and leaders in the Hospital/Health Care System/Community
* Maintains current knowledge of patient care delivery systems and innovations.
* Serves as a change agent for such things as redesign of care delivery; patient flow; implementation of innovative new roles or programs for health care services and thus is required to be a lifelong learner expecting leadership team and staff to do the same.
* Successfully works with the nurse leadership team to employ change management strategies and instills in self and others the curiosity to explore new knowledge and ideas.
* Is able to interpret and promotes evidence based practice for administration and patient care and supports leaders and staff in the organization to do the same. Participates in outcome measures and shares in the dissemination of best practice and research findings to improve patient care and health services within and outsi