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The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is responsible for providing leadership, direction, and administration of activities relating to patient care, nursing practice, nursing education, and clinical development across the hospital. The CNO is responsible for driving, supporting, and modeling a culture focused on employee engagement, quality, patient safety, fiscal responsibility, and the overall patient experience.
Job Responsibility:
Provide leadership, direction, and administration of activities relating to patient care, nursing practice, nursing education, and clinical development
Drive, support, and model a culture focused on employee engagement, quality, patient safety, fiscal responsibility, and the overall patient experience
Strategize and drive process improvements
Promote the use and implementation of technology
Collaborate with other teams for the implementation of programs, policies, and procedures
Ensure patient and family centered care is comprehensive, coordinated, and monitored for effectiveness
Allocate financial, information, and human capital for improvement activities
Promote interdisciplinary collaboration
Serve as a member of the executive leadership team
Assume an active role with the hospital’s governing body, senior leadership, medical staff, management, and other clinical leaders
Communicate expectations, develop leaders, and advance the organization
Promote relationships with community organizations
Establish structures, processes, and expectations that support lifelong professional learning
Collaborate with directors in hiring, orientation, evaluation, discipline, and education of clinical staff
Round on patients, families, employees, and physicians
Establish methods to ensure that nurses organization-wide are involved in shared-governance
Assure the flow of information and decision-making is bi-directional
Establish and enhance a culture of evidence-based practice
Approve nursing policies, nursing standards of patient care, treatment, and services
Integrate nursing practice with the mission, vision, philosophy, behavior standards, and values
Ensure that the care delivery system promotes continuous, consistent, efficient, and accountable patient care
Recognize the broad and long-term implications of business decisions
Promote consistent and positive patient interactions
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in nursing
Master’s degree in nursing or related field
5+ years of experience in clinical nurse leadership and experience as a Chief Nursing Officer
Current licensure as a registered professional nurse (RN) in the state in which he or she practices
Nice to have:
Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills
Ability to analyze situations, evaluate data, recommend, and implement courses of action
Ability to use sound judgement in decision making
Demonstrated ability to establish a vision, set strategy, execute and deliver short and long-range goal implementation
Strong ability to build physician and clinical relationships