Nursing Director Telemetry Jobs

GENERAL DUTIES:

The Director has a 24-hour, 7 day a week responsibility to provide leadership for the cost center (s). This includes planning, organizing, staff development, performance management, quality fiscal and information management, regulatory compliance, building and enhancing relationships through customer relations, and appropriate professional involvement.The Director is accountable for the management of the cost center(s) within the established budget.The Director will work closely with medical directors, medical department chairs, physicians, and other disciplines to develop services andensure quality. Access to all Patient Health Information.

DEPARTMENT SPECIFIC DUTIES:

• Productively criticizes and effectively counsels staff in a timely manner.
• Regularly attends Nurse Executive Council and takes personal responsibility for the quality and integrity of Nursing Administration.Regularly volunteers for and completes special projects.
• Obtains feedback on a regular basis from other departments.Develops action plans to achieve improvement.
• Acts as a team member within the department and within the organization.
• Demonstrates effective and responsible relationships with patients, families, medical director and key physicians, employees, management and administration, and related outside agencies.
• Communicates, cooperates, and performs related duties with other members of the hospital staff and administration in a courteous and efficient manner to actively contribute to overall hospital goals and objectives.
• Establishes and maintains a routine mode of communication with staff, e.g. Monthly staff meetings and written communications.
• Maintains a written staffing plan consistent with department’s productivity benchmark.Maintains an individual patient classification system which predicts nursing care requirements by shift, and maintains documentation to discern trends and patterns of nursing care delivery by shift and staff mix.
• Reviews statistical analysis information and corrects any errors monthly.
• Coordinates timely attendance at hospital orientation and all mandatory continuing education programs for department employees.Assures current, comprehensive, and timely department specific orientation for all new employees.
• Obtains information and interpret information in terms of the patient’s needs.
• Ensures standards of care, policies, and procedures are appropriate and currentand that they have been reviewed with all staff members.Reviews and revises policies and procedures as necessary, but not less than every three years.
• Knowledge of interventional cardiology, protocols, and medications.Competent in arrhythmia interpretation.
• Continually monitors the department’s activities and takes appropriate action to ensure efficient and effective operation.Observes ongoing operations and analyzes performance to identify potential problems.
• Supports all hospital programs to include, but not limited to , risk management, safety, infection control.
• Achieves YTD compliance with labor hour benchmark per unit of service.
• Achieves measurable improvement in key quality initiatives, which include both process, e.g., documentation, and outcome measures.
• Maintains personal current knowledge and expertise in the specialty field of the department, and of regulatory requirements of the department.
• Assures regulatory compliance with TJC
• Submits sound annual budget plan by negotiation deadline annually.
• Assesses and implements staff development and cross-training as needed.
• Identifies and implements cost savings through labor and supply utilization efficiencies.
• Assures regulatory compliance with Title XXII.
• Develops short-term goals and objectives consistent with those of the organization.Submits and discusses established goals and objectives with administration at least annually.Assures departmental action plans meet departmental and organizational goals, problem solving effectively within the department and with other departments to achieve these goals.
• Communicates self and staff concerns and problems through proper written and verbal channels.
• Submits pay period productivity variance reports on time, identifying rationale for substantive variances.
• Assures timely follow up of patient, family, staff, and physician concerns.
• Schedules the collection of data for these initiatives, and other ongoing reviews which serve as quality trending.Monitors and reviews the results with department staff on a regular basis.
• Maintains a good working rapport with all staff, and other departments which require frequent interactions and coordination of efforts.
• Management of Department: Directs and administers the operations/services of the department and establishes department direction and guidelines for accountability within prescribed policy and procedure of the organization.
• Assists with the development of and execution of a plan of staff involvement and growth through delegation of appropriate authorities.
• Achieves measurable improvement in customer service.
• Understands the range of treatment needed as appropriate to the ages of the patients served.
• Assures effective staff recognition.
• Ensures that current criteria-based job performance standard and applicable competencies exist each member of the staff.Ensures that performance evaluations are completed in a timely fashion for both annual and evaluations.
• Demonstrates knowledge of growth and development.
• Promotes sound staffing practice by optimizing the utilization of human resources.Anticipates and forecasts personnel needs of the department with regard to fluctuations in the projected workload.
• Controls and monitors supply costs to achieve flexed budgeted costs on a quarterly basis.
• Assures department compliance with TJC and other accrediting body standards as they are updates/revised.
• Reports at least annually to the designated hospital quality committee.
• Identifies priority quality improvement and customer satisfaction initiatives.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• BSN
• Three (3) years’ experience in clinical specialty.
• Current knowledge of the field, with evidence of ongoing continuing education in clinical
• California RN license (maintain current at all times)

specialty.

• EKG certificate of completion (maintain current at all times)
• Demonstrated competence as a leader.
• Basic computer competence.
• Current American Heart Association BLS and ACLS Certification (maintain current at all times)
• Progressive healthcare experience including at least two years supervisory experience.

Will demonstrate competency in monitoring and interpreting cardiac rhythms accurately, upon hire, or transfer and annually

Preferred:

• National Certification
• Masters (MSN, MHA, MBA)