Posted in Other 30+ days ago.
Location: Austell, Georgia
Facility: Cobb Hospital
Job Summary:
Location: Wellstar Cobb Hospital - Austell, GA | Acute care surgical, orthopedic, trauma and elective orthopedic units
The Executive Director of Nursing (EDON), for Acute Care Services is a registered professional nurse who provides leadership and management of a clinical operations for a multi-specialty units at Cobb Hospital, through the application of advanced competencies in communication; job knowledge, professionalism and business skills. This executive is a member of the chief nursing officer's administrative team and serves as her designee for assigned responsibilities. He/she effectively partners with Medical Group leadership, to include physicians and operators, as well as other departments to create a center of excellence for their specialty service and to meet the Medical Group's mission, vision and goals.
The Executive Director of Nursing provides direct leadership for a group of nurse administrators/directors or departments and who comprise their specialty service line. He/she is a standard bearer and holds leaders and staff accountable for the delivery of safe, quality care and services through effective communication, fiscal accountability, and employment of transformational leadership, instilling an accountability-based practice setting. The executive director of nursing serves as sponsor for performance improvement, inspires others to seek opportunities to grow and improve their performance, and successfully applies lean and evidenced based practice to ensure all targets pillar outcomes are achieved. This executive employs all safety-first interventions and works with the patient safety and operational leaders to create a culture of safety for ambulatory care through the development/use of these skills by other leaders, providers and staff. He/she effectively uses data and technology to make decisions and proactively mitigates unnecessary risks for his/her area of responsibility providing instruction and mentoring for assigned leaders to be able to do the same. This executive ensures that nursing administrators work with operational leaders and staff to create a desirable, safe work environment that enables the organization to meet or exceed all licensure, regulatory and accreditation standards. He/She models the way by fostering exemplary skills in attaining effective teamwork and collaboration with providers, staff, patients and other departments.
This Executive Director of Nursing also oversees the Employee Health Covid pathway for all Wellstar employees. This team of nurses is led by a Director of Nursing, who in partnership with the Medical Director, is responsible for the clinical management and disposition of Covid positive employees from the point of testing to their return to work. This team is point and collaborates with system leaders including hospital presidents, human resources, employee health, CNOs, legal and compliance in the journey of these team members back to work. This nursing leader serves as the pathway subject matter expert and also manages the data and analytics associated will all team member testing and the report out to system leaders.
It is expected that all Nurse Leaders are licensed, knowledgeable and uphold the practice of nursing as outlined by the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act and implements the Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics Standards put forth by the American Nurses Association. As a member of the patient services team, it is expected the individual upholds the voice of the patient, system policies and procedures while supporting service excellence goals.
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