Nursing Director of Critical Care position at Taylor Search in Knoxville

Taylor Search is looking of Nursing Director of Critical Care on Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:54:16 GMT. Job Purpose: Serves patients by managing staff; developing and enforcing nursing policies and services. Duties: * Defines nursing practices by encouraging and supporting research and potential quality improvement efforts. * Influences medical center policy by providing nursing services perspective. * Accomplishes the financial goals of the medical center by improving the quality and cost...

Nursing Director of Critical Care

Location: Knoxville Tennessee

Description: Taylor Search is looking of Nursing Director of Critical Care right now, this position will be placed in Tennessee. More details about this position opportunity please give attention to these descriptions. Job Purpose:
Serves patients by managing staff; developing and enforcing nursing policies and services.

Duties:

• Defines nursing practices by encouraging and supporting research and potential quality improvement efforts.
• Influences medical center policy by providing nursing services perspective.
• Accomplishes the financial goals of the medical center by improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of nursing services.
• Maintains medical center legal requirements by interpreting hospital policy and state nursing laws; investigating potential breaches; studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; advising medical center chief executive officer on needed actions.
• Identifies future nursing services requirements by establishing rapport across interdisciplinary services; interpreting information from potential and actual patients and families; conferring with people in a position to understand service requirements.
• Maintains nursing staff by determining strategic recruiting focus; reviewing and developing selection criteria; establishing hiring practices; evaluating effectiveness of newly hired nurses.
• Maintains credentialed staff by keeping abreast of advances and specialty opportunities in new and emerging nursing services and technologies.
• Maintains nursing services operations by defining required program and operational and personnel policies; implementing a nursing strategy.
• Maintains a collaborative patient services work environment by fostering a spirit of interdisciplinary cooperation among nursing services, medical staff, and support and ancillary services.
• Contributes to medical center effectiveness by identifying short-term and long-range issues that must be addressed; providing information and commentary pertinent to deliberations; recommending options and courses of action; implementing directives.
• Represents the medical center by establishing and maintaining relationships with community groups and health and support services; communicating with news media; collecting data and presenting information at hearings.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Skills/Qualifications:
Nursing Skills, Performance Management, Staffing, Emphasizing Excellence, Delegation, Coaching, Quality Management, Initiative, Organizational Astuteness, Infection Control, Clinical Skills
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This position starts available on: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:54:16 GMT

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