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Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Director Med Surg
Communicates Effectively and Builds Relationships with all External and Internal Customers.
Pursues Professional Growth and Development through Knowledge of the Health Care Environment.
Provides Leadership in the Professional Setting.
Creates an Environment of Professionalism.
Actively uses Business Skills in the areas of Finance, Human Resources and Strategic Planning.
Integrates Ethical Provisions in all Areas of Practice.
Exemplary Professional Growth and Development:
Maintains education/knowledge level to demonstrate commitment to professional improvement and also as a role model to the department.
Demonstrates accountability for development of professional growth:
a. Attends seminars, CE offerings, keeps up with professional journal readings (life-long learner), pursues advanced degree(s).
b. Attains/maintains national certification.
c. Active participation in a professional organization.
d. Active support of community health-related programs/activities.
Uses evidence-based findings and research in day-to-day practice of leadership and growth of clinical specialty.
Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills.
Self motivated --- produces work on time and complete.
Supports and is an exemplar of American Nurses Association (ANA) Professional Practice Nursing Administration Scope of the ANA Practice and Professional Practice Standards.
Transformational Leadership:
Effectively manages the change process to achieve high performance outcomes.
Demonstrates effective teambuilding skills.
Demonstrates positive engagement with employees, patients, and physicians.
Coaches and manages staff performance. Uses the Performance Management Plan (PMP) process to communicate, educate, and set performance expectations. Assures that PMPs are completed on time.
Using evidence-based practice and research, develops implements, and maintains a plan for the provision of patient care, including a scope of service, acuity and staffing plans. Reviews periodically, at least annually.
Supports and contributes to hospital and nursing annual strategic plans, Professional Practice Model, Shared Governance bylaws, Nurse Residency Program, educational programs, clinical ladder, and essential Nursing Administrative functions.
Supports Shared Governance structure through staff attendance, assuring discussion at staff meetings, facilitating a council when asked, and attendance at Nursing Leadership Council.
Maintains visibility with staff and other clinical disciplines.
Sets performance improvement priorities and identifies how to adjust priorities in response to unusual or urgent events.
Assures that all staff has received appropriate orientation and on boarding to practice in areas of responsibility.
Mentors and coaches potential staff for leadership positions.
Develops structures to assure effective communication on unit and with other disciplines and departments.
Works collaboratively with all disciplines to achieve hospital strategic plan.
Provides opportunities for career development of staff such as educational, certification, Clinical Ladder, or professional association participation.
Quality:
Leads staff in the integration of the 5 Components of the Magnet Model into everyday nursing practice.
Leads staff in adoption of all Quality Initiatives and evidence-based practice.
Monitors Quality Outcomes and makes changes to correct deficiencies. Achieves performance within national benchmark of all nursing sensitive indicators at least 3 out of 4 quarters yearly.
Makes appropriate referrals to the Quality Department when issues arise.
Rounds on patients daily and effectively addresses patient care concerns.
Establishes collaborative relationships and rounds regularly with physicians seeking their insight into clinical performance of unit.
Makes Staff Rounds on areas of responsibility weekly and monthly including evening/night shifts.
Knowledgeable of all regulatory requirements for areas of responsibility and takes appropriate action to improve/achieve.
Maintains knowledge and keeps up-to-date on electronic medical record system.
Educates staff and develops processes to ensure nurse-sensitive patient satisfaction above national mean at least 3 of 4 quarters in all nursing sensitive indicators. Works with all departments to achieve patient satisfaction scores consistently above National Mean.
Supports and contributes to effectiveness of hospital iMPaCT Patient Satisfaction team.
Works with Bed Management to ensure efficient patient throughput.
Integrates with Case Management to incorporate Interdisciplinary Rounding on the unit.
Financial Management:
Monitors departmental operations reports. Initiates corrective action, as necessary.
Manages budget within targets. Ensures that labor hours are accurately recorded in Kronos.
Knowledgeable of PLUS system for appropriate labor planning and utilization.
Participates in operational and capital budget process.
Makes recommendations to CNO concerning equipment, staffing targets, vacancies, and programs for yearly budget planning.
Assures staff has input into equipment need identification, staffing targets, supplies and other needs.
Assures that nursing department has needed supplies/equipment and staff to operate effectively safely and effectively.
Manages and updates FPC plan regularly.
Works with Case Management to improve length of stay (LOS) and other operational metrics.
Able to write business plans to support capital expense programs.
Retention and Recognition:
Maintains working knowledge of human resources, recruitment, compensation and related policies to ensure compliance with policies, procedures and applicable laws.
Uses effective methods for interviewing to ensure the most qualified candidate is selected and the process is free from bias.
Works with staff to resolve turnover issues to achieve reduced staff turnover rates, and improved RN satisfaction to above National NDNQI Mean.
Works with staff to improve overall employee engagement year over year.
Regularly recognizes staff for outstanding performance. Participates in DAISY recognition program by regularly nominating all deserving RNs and LPNs. Supports Patient Rights and Organizational
Ethics:
Ensures that ethical behavior is followed in patient care, treatment, and services, and in all business practices.
Supports the HCA Ethics and Compliance Program.
Integrates the values expressed in the HCA Code of Conduct into day-to-day activities.
Demonstrates compliance with applicable laws and regulations, policies and procedures.
Holds others accountable for behavior consistent with our organizational values.
Ensures that 100% of direct reports receive Code of Conduct training in the time frame specified.
Maintains a high degree of personal integrity and remains free from conflicts of interest.
Monitors the workplace to ensure that it is free from harassment and workplace violence. Takes appropriate action when necessary.
Assures that licensed staff maintains licensure and certification such as Basis Life Support (BLS) or ACLS, etc.
Creates and supports a culture of safety through support of SBAR, Safety Huddles, Bedside Reporting and /or other structures to ensure culture of safety.
Supports ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses and Patient Rights. New Knowledge, Innovations, Evidence-Based Practice
Maintains knowledge base through review of journals and other methods.
Supports through attendance and staff attendance of annual Research Conference.
Proactively works with staff to make appropriate changes to practice based on best evidence.
Education & Experience:
Three years experience as a RN in a nursing leadership role with demonstrated proficiency in leadership and management – Required
Two years experience at Director Level in healthcare setting – Preferred
BSN from a school of nursing or within 1 year of employment – Required
Valid VA RN Licensure, OR Registered Nurse with “multi-state privilege" granted to them by virtue of holding a license in one of the states participating in the Nurse Licensure Compact Agreement and who has not established permanent residency in Virginia – Required
BLS (issued by approved agencies) – Required
MSN, MBA, or MHA - Preferred
BenefitsLewisGale Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
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LewisGale Medical Center has provided quality healthcare services since 1909. We give patient's access to trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 500+ bed hospital is one of the leading acute care facilities in the Salem area. We specialize in heart and vascular care—including the latest advanced technology available through our designated Heart Center—as well as orthopedics and spine care, services for mental and behavioral health and cancer care.
At LewisGale Medical Center, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Director Med Surg opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
At its founding in 1968, Nashville-based HCA was one of the nation's first hospital companies. Today, we are the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, a company comprised of locally managed facilities that includes about 165 hospitals and 115 freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and England and employing approximately 204,000 people. Approximately four to five percent of all inpatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities. Richard M. Bracken serves as Chairman of HCA and R. Milton Johnson is the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
HCA is committed to the care and improvement of human life and strives to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Building on the foundation provided by our Mission & Values, HCA puts patients first and works to constantly improve the care we give them by implementing measures that support our caregivers, help ensure patient safety and provide the highest possible quality. Investing in our communities is important to us. HCA typically invests about $1.5 billion annually to keep our facilities modern and up-to-date technologically and to expand and add services where needed. Focusing primarily on communities where the company is a leading healthcare provider, HCA selectively adds new facilities in order to better serve our communities.
And because two HCA founders were physicians, we value highly the strong relationships we've created with local physicians. We endeavor to provide them with a wide array of services and modern facilities in order to help them deliver the best possible care.