Executive Director Nursing - Periop Services

THE ROLE

Reporting directly to the Ministry Chief Nursing Officer, the Executive Director, Surgical Services, has responsibility for the operation of the Professional Nursing Practice within Surgical Services. The Executive Director, Surgical Services directs nursing services by approval and implementation of nursing policies, procedures, standards and staffing plans. 

As a member of the nursing leadership team, the incumbent assumes an active leadership role interdepartmentally, with the medical staff, and act as a key representative in Surgical Services to the community on behalf of the CNO as deemed necessary. 

With a constant focus on whole person care, quality, staff and patient safety, the Executive Director, Surgical Services maintains standards and systems for care delivery at their ministry. These systems of care delivery promote evidence-based practice and are designed to support the management of productivity targets, patient acuity, and appropriate planning for and use of available resources.  

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Communication & Relationship Building
  • Creates a work environment that facilitates and encourages involvement of the staff in critical thinking to enact professional nursing practice.
  • Build collaborative relationships
  • Uses shared decision making to accomplish the organization’s primary goal which is service to patients, families and the community
  • Promotes implementation of processes and resources that deliver data and information to empower staff to participate meaningfully in clinical decision making
  • Establish an environment that values diversity in which care is delivered in a manner sensitive to social and cultural diversity
  • Provides and maintains effective communications with medical staff, the community, and all levels of supervision and staff.  Rounds for improved visibility and to meet specific goals such as safety.
  • Represent the organization to non-health care constituents within the community
  • Represent nursing to the media
  • Serve on community-based boards, advisory groups, and task forces
  • Represent nursing at medical executive committee and other departmental / medical staff committees
  • Collaborate with nursing programs to provide required resources
  • Serve on academic advisory councils
  • Collaborate in nursing research and translate evidence into practice
  • Create academic partnerships to ensure a qualified workforce for the future
• Knowledge of the Health Care Environment
  • Communicate patient care standards as established by accreditation, regulatory and quality agencies
  • Ensure compliance with the State Nurse Practice Act, State Board of Nursing regulations, state and federal regulatory agency standards, federal labor standards and policies of the organization
  • Adhere to professional association standards of nursing practice
  • Ensure that written organizational clinical policies and procedures are reviewed and updated in accordance with evidence-based practice
  • Integrate bioethical and legal dimensions into clinical and management decision-making
  • Ensure protection of human subject rights and safety in clinical research
  • Assess the effectiveness of delivery models
  • Develop new delivery models
  • Participate in the design of facilities
  • Align care delivery models and staff performance with key safety and economic drivers (e.g., value-based purchasing, bundled payment)
  • Take action when opportunities exist to adjust operations to respond effectively to environmental changes in economic elements
  • Use knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations that affect the provision of patient care (e.g., tort reform, malpractice/ negligence, reimbursement)
  • Participate in legislative process on health care issues through such mechanisms as membership in professional organization and personal contact with officials
  • Educate patient care team members on the legislative process, the regulatory process and methods for influencing both
  • Interpret impact of legislation at the state and federal level on nursing and health care organizations
  • Represent patient care issues to the governing body
  • Participate in strategic planning and quality initiatives with the governing body
  • Interact with and educate the organization’s board members regarding health care and the value of nursing care
  • Represent nursing at the organization’s board meetings
  • Represent other disciplines at the organization’s board meetings
  • Use evidence for establishment of standards, practices and patient care models in the organization (nurse sensitive outcomes)
  • Design feedback mechanisms by which to adapt practice based upon outcomes from current pro