Chief Nursing Officer – NC & GA Division

Department:

10046 Enterprise Corporate - Corporate Office

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Weekdays

The Division Chief Nursing Officer – NC & GA, as a member of the senior executive nursing leadership team, is responsible for the advancement and innovation for the delivery of care across the North Carolina and Georgia Division, Atrium Health delivery care brand (inclusive of legacy Atrium Health, Floyd Health, Navicent Health, and Wake Forest Baptist Health brands) with a focus on both strategy and operations. This position works collaboratively with site CNOs and Area health care teams to position Advocate Health - Atrium Health patient/client care services as the destination of choice for populations as well as the workplace of choice for nurses and support team members. The Division Chief Nursing Officer – NC & GA in collaboration with site CNOs is responsible for alignment of nursing care across the division's clinical settings through the identification and adoption of evidence-based practice to reduce variation in practice. This position has leadership responsibility for nursing services division-wide and with the site CNOs and CMOs ensures industry-leading outcomes in quality of care, patient safety and patient and family experience.The Division Chief Nursing Officer – NC & GA assures excellence in nursing practice, and standards of care and leads efforts in leadership development, succession planning and fiscal responsibility for the North Carolina and Georgia Division of Advocate Health. The Site CNOs have a matrixed reporting to this role.

Major Responsibilities:

In partnership with the Enterprise Chief Nursing Officer and Enterprise Nursing Leadership Council, develops a Divisional Nursing Strategic plan and is accountable for the execution of the plan for the North Carolina and Georgia Division and achieving targeted outcomes.

Effectively represents patient/client and nursing perspective and vision to division governing bodies, leadership team meetings and external audiences on behalf of Atrium Health, now part of Advocate Health.

Ensures that patient care delivery models and clinical and staffing standards for nursing are consistent with current research in nursing practice and professional standards, compliant with state and federal regulations, accreditation standards and aligned with the Mission, Vision and Values of Atrium Health, now part of Advocate Health and in collaboration with other enterprise and division leaders, leads the efforts to design new care models to ensure value-based care in the future health care delivery system

Leads Nursing Quality and Safety initiatives to achieve top decile performance level and uses evidence-based or best practice standards and ensures consistency of policies across the continuum of care in collaboration with site CNOs, CMOs and other leaders.

In collaboration with Division, Area and Site CNOs, prepares system operations and capital budgets for nursing and patient care services in designated region and sets priorities for allocation of resources and demonstrates leadership in forecasting trends in the effective management of human, financial, material and informational resources

Develops and ensures effective services and tools services to support nursing operations including staffing/scheduling models, leadership, reporting and monitoring on labor productivity, nursing balanced scorecard (SCOUT) , NDNQI reporting, nurse recruitment and retention, performance management systems, professional development, and bed-side care-support tools.

Ensure systems that provide for the effective orientation, transitions to practice and ongoing education of the clinical and managerial nursing staff; Establishes and maintains professional liaisons with educational institutions to promote the exchange of resources and to promote collaboration between service and educational arenas and advocates for, and leads, the continued advancement of nursing professionalism.

Builds strong, collaborative partnerships between functional areas, including but not limited to HR, Quality, Compliance, IT and Finance to deliver strong operational performance and establishes credibility and trust throughout the nursing enterprise including but not limited to individual hospital CNOs,