Assistant Director of Nursing - Women & Children/Inpatient Float Pool

LMC Careers  
Full Time
Day Shift

 

Consistently named best hospital, Lexington Medical Center dedicates itself to providing quality health services that meet the needs of its communities. Ranked #1 in the Columbia metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Medical Center is the only hospital named one of the Best Places to Work in South Carolina and the first hospital in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care.

The 607-bed teaching hospital anchors a health care network that includes six community medical centers and employs more than 8,700 health care professionals. The network includes a cardiovascular program recognized by the American College of Cardiology as South Carolina’s first HeartCARE CenterTM and an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence affiliated with MUSC Hollings Cancer Center for research and education. The network also features an occupational health center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, an Alzheimer’s care center and nearly 80 physician practices.  Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year.

Job Summary

Assists the Director of Nursing in the day-to-day leadership for the operations of patient care areas, which includes the planning, organizing, and coordinating of patient care delivery to meet established standards as well as developing and managing personnel and fiscal resources. Promotes a practice environment that empowers others to provide effective, compassionate and efficient patient care. Works with Director of Nursing and other nursing and non-nursing leaders to ensure quality services are provided to LMC patients and family members.

Identifies best practices and works with team to implement measures to continually improve patient care. Works with leaders and staff through formal and informal processes to assure compliance with regulatory standards and research based practice guidelines. Able to problem solve / critically think through complex issues to determine best approach to resolve the situation.
 

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Education: Bachelors of Science in Nursing and a Masters in a healthcare related field.
Minimum Years of Experience: 5 Years of experience in acute care, which includes a minimum of 2 years of experience in a nursing leadership/management position.
Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): Consideration will be given to candidate enrolled in Master’s program with the understanding that degree must be completed with 12 months of entering role.
Required Certification/Licensure: Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in South Carolina; National nursing certification in specialty or must be acquired within 6 months of hire into the role.
Required Training: None.
 

Essential Functions

• Assists Director of Nursing with oversight of patient care in areas of responsibility.
• Assists Director of Nurisng in identifying trends and changes in health care delivery and clinical practice and collaborates with staff to implement improvements.
• Assists personnel to accept responsibility with respect to attainment of goals and utilization of resources.
• Assists Director of Nursing in developing and implementing systems to measure patient care outcomes, utilization of standards of practice and hospital policy and procedures.
• Ensures that each department has an implemented quality monitoring plan that measures patient outcomes and practice standards and that improvement actions plans are designed and implemented when adherence to standards meets thresholds for evaluation.
• Ensures that members of the staff serve on appropriate hospital committees and PI task forces to identify opportunities for improvement and evaluate and create system enhancements to obtain desired outcomes.
• Investigates patient, family, visitor, and physician complaints concerning services provided, initiates an action plan to resolve the concern and communicates activities with VP.
• Develops, reviews and revises nursing and interdisciplinary policies and procedures to reflect current standards of practice and care. Considers professional organization standards and related statutes and regulations when developing and or revising P&P and standards.
• Knowledgeable regarding professional practice standards (ANA, DHEC, DNV, CMS, etc.) and shares knowledge with others.
• Maintains professional affiliations to keep abreast of latest trends in areas of responsibility.
• Assists Director of Nurisng in ensuring the establishment of departmental goals and objectives and ensures effective utilization of policies and procedures for departmental operations.
• Assists Director of Nursing with the establishing and/or revising job description