Chief Nursing Officer

Chief Nursing Officer

United Surgical Partners International, the country's largest ASC platform, is currently seeking a Chief Nursing Officer for Baylor Scott & White Surgical Hospital - Fort Worth. Baylor Scott & White Surgical Hospital - Fort Worth is a joint venture with Tenet Healthcare and USPI. It is a 29-bed acute care surgical hospital located at 1800 Park Place Avenue in Fort Worth, Texas. The hospital has been serving the residents of Fort Worth and the surrounding communities since 2014. It provides a wide spectrum of medical services including an Emergency Department, a 25-bed inpatient unit, a 3-bed intensive care unit, a diagnostic imaging unit, and 14 operating rooms, including advanced surgical systems. With a medical staff of 180 physicians, the hospital offers various specialty surgical services.

Job Description

• The CNO is responsible for management of all nursing service departments and other clinical departments of the hospital.
• Ensures the quality of patient care and that sufficient and properly prepared personnel carry out these functions.
• Responsible for all departmental functions in support of the hospital mission, vision, and facility goals.
• Identifies cost-effective systems needed to support the business of the department considering business trends, resource availability, and changes in customers.
• Establishes effective working relationships with all constituencies including patients, physicians, employees, volunteers, and vendors.
• Identifies and remedies issues through continuous customer satisfaction data and employee involvement.
• Works with other Senior Management in meeting facility goals.
• Develops, directs the implementation, and ensures compliance of Standards of Practice that promote optimum health care delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develops a hospital plan for the provision of nursing care that supports improvement in nursing practice based on patient needs and the hospital mission.
• Reviews work schedules, assignments, patient classification, and supervisor's reports to assess daily personnel needs for quality care.
• Recommends and carries out changes in personnel and assignments accordingly.
• Acts as an administrative resource to clinical directors/coordinators in areas including development and updating of policies, procedures, and job descriptions; budget preparation for clinical departments; personnel functions, evaluation, and grievances; improvement of clinical services performance.
• Develops and/or assists with the development of hospital-wide patient care programs, policies, and procedures that describe how patient needs are assessed, evaluated, and met.
• Develops staffing plans for all nursing units and nursing service lines of authority and support staff.
• Attends and participates in Medical Staff and Medical Executive Committees, and hospital Board meetings in planning promoting and conducting organizational performance improvement activities.
• Actively participates with the governing body, management team, medical staff, and clinical areas in developing, implementing, and evaluating the hospital's strategic plan, budgets, resource allocation, and operation/plan and policies.
• Meets regularly with the Administrative team to discuss objectives, staffing needs, and management problems.
• Implements findings from literature, workshops, seminars, courses, and conferences with other Chief Nursing Officers to stay informed on nursing care and management.
• Implements an effective ongoing evaluation process for patient care to ensure continuous improvement as part of the hospital-wide Performance Improvement process.
• Evaluates and ensures the nursing process is carried out continuously on all patients.
• Ensures the continuous and timely availability of nursing services to patients.
• Implements findings from current research into policies and procedures governing nursing care.
• Ensures nursing service staff carry out applicable processes in patient care and organization-wide functions described in this manual.
• Assigns responsibility to individuals or groups of nursing staff members to act on improving nursing service performance.
• Actively participates in the hospital's leadership functions.
• Collaborates with other hospital leaders in designing and providing patient care and services.
• Participates with hospital leaders in ensuring enough appropriately qualified nursing staff members to care for patients.
• Develops, presents, and manages the nursing services' portion of the hospital's budget.

Requirements

• Education: Required: Bachelor's degree in Nursing and Master's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, or Business Administration.

• Experience: Required: 5 years progressive management experience in a hospital environment as a director of multiple complex nursing departments. Preferred: Previous experience as a CNO. Previous experience in a surgical hospital.

• Certifications: Required: Currently licensed, certified, or registered to practice profession as required by law or regulation in state of practice or policy. AHA BLS.

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