Chief Nursing Officer - Interim Executive Support

Calling all Esteemed Leaders! Are you a senior nursing executive who thrives in
dynamic environments, leading transformation, strengthening professional
practice, and guiding nursing organizations through critical transitions? Do you
excel at partnering with executive teams while advancing high standards of
patient care, safety, and performance? This leadership opportunity invites your
expertise.

The Role

• Interim Executive Support has overall responsibility for the operation and

The Chief Nursing Officer - Interim Executive Support directs nursing services
by approval and implementation of nursing policies, procedures, standards and
staffing plans. The CNO assures that nursing services are integrated into the
ministry's performance improvement plan in support of the PSJH nursing strategic
plan.

As a member of the hospital executive team, the Chief Nursing Officer - Interim
Executive Support assumes an active leadership role interdepartmentally, with
the medical staff, during Community Ministry Board activities, and as a key
representative to the community.

With a constant focus on patient-centeredness, quality, staff and patient
safety, the Chief Nursing Officer - Interim Executive Support creates and
maintains standards and systems for care delivery at their ministry. These
systems of care delivery promote evidence-based practice and are designed to
support the management of productivity targets, patient acuity, and appropriate
planning for and use of available resources.

What You'll Do

* Act as an interim ministry based CNO with Providence and the family of
organization.
* Act as a mentor and coach to CNO’s and aspiring CNO’s.
* Support the Nursing Leadership Academy by acting as an active mentor to
attendees.
* Support system, divisional and local goals and initiatives.
* Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary and highly matrixed team
leadership to accomplish strategic goals and objectives.
* Manage multiple priorities and projects.
* Develop creative plans and solutions to execute identified clinical care
related strategies and programs.
* Participate in designing strategies to address the unique needs of a diverse
workforce, patient population, and community while promoting a culture of
excellence, safety and psychological safety.
* Develop and maintain an effective team environment which recognizes and
values diversity and promotes cultural competency.
* Engage caregivers and others in shared decision making, particularly as it
relates to patient care.
* Contribute to retention by fostering an environment of caring, belonging,
purpose and growth.
* Demonstrate expertise in organizational revenue, expense performance and
capital planning; manage fiscal, human and material resources in a
cost-effective manner.
* Deliver cost effective, quality clinical services.
* Lead the design and maintenance of effective systems for clinical resource
management.
* Develop and implement standards, protocols, policies and procedures aligned
with evidence-based clinical care.
* Provide consultation and support to operational and core leaders related to
clinical care processes, shared leadership, and policies.
* Partner with quality leaders to design, implement and support quality
improvement initiatives.
* Support and collaborate in nursing research and translation of evidence into
practice.
* Support research on clinical leading practices and influence adoption and
deployment.
* Actively participate in mentoring and developing aspiring caregivers,
including future Chief Nursing Officers.

Communication & Relationship Building

* Creates a work environment that facilitates and encourages involvement of the
staff in critical thinking to enact professional nursing practice.
* Build collaborative relationships.
* Uses shared decision making to accomplish the organization’s primary goal
which is service to patients, families and the community.
* Promotes implementation of processes and resources that deliver data and
information to empower staff to participate meaningfully in clinical decision
making.
* Establish an environment that values diversity in which care is delivered in
a manner sensitive to social and cultural diversity.
* Provides and maintains effective communications with medical staff, the
community, and all levels of supervision and staff. Rounds for improved
visibility and to meet specific goals such as safety.
* Represent the organization to non-health care constituents within the
community.
* Represent nursing to the media and broader community stakeholders.
* Serve on community-based boards, advisory groups, academic advisory councils
and task forces.
* Represent nursing at medical executive committee and other departmental /
medical staff committees.
* Collaborate with nursing programs to provide required resources.
* Support academic partnerships to ensure a qualified workforce for the
future. 

Knowledge of the Health Care Environment

* Communicate patient care standards as established by accreditation,
regulatory and quality agencies.
* Ensure compliance with the State Nurse Practice Act, State Board of Nursing
regulations, state and federal regulatory agency standards, federal labor
standards and policies of the organization.
* Adhere to professional association standards of nursing practice.
* Ensure that written organizational clinical policies and procedures are
reviewed and updated in accordance with evidence-based practice.
* Integrate bioethical and legal dimensions into clinical and management
decision-making.
* Ensure protection of human subject rights and safety in clinical research.
* Assess the effectiveness of delivery models.
* Develop new delivery models.
* Participate in the design of facilities.
* Align care delivery models and staff performance with key safety and economic
drivers (e. g., value-based purchasing, bundled payment).
* Take action when opportunities exist to adjust operations to respond
effectively to environmental changes in economic elements.
* Use knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations that affect the
provision of patient care (e. g., tort reform, malpractice/ negligence,
reimbursement).
* Participate in legislative process on health care issues through such
mechanisms as membership in professional organization and personal contact
with officials.
* Educate patient care team members on the legislative process, the regulatory
process and methods for influencing both.
* Interpret impact of legislation at the state and federal level on nursing and
health care organizations.
* Represent patient care issues to the governing body.
* Participate in strategic planning and quality initiatives with the governing
body.
* Interact with and educate the organization’s board members regarding health
care and the value of nursing care.
* Represent nursing at the organization’s board meetings.
* Represent other disciplines at the organization’s board meetings.
* Use evidence for establishment of standards, practices and patient care
models in the organization (nurse sensitive outcomes).
* Design feedback mechanisms by which to adapt practice based upon outcomes
from current processes.
* Design and interpret outcome measures.
* Disseminate research findings to patient care team members.
* Allocate nursing resources based on measurement of patient acuity/care
needed.
* Monitor and address nurse sensitive outcomes and satisfaction indicators.
* Support the development of an organization-wide patient safety program.
* Use knowledge of patient safety science (e. g., human factors, complex
adaptive systems, LEAN and Six Sigma, high reliability organization).
* Monitor clinical activities to identify both expected and unexpected risks.
* Support a Just Culture (non-punitive) reporting environment, supporting a
reward system for identifying unsafe practices.
* Support safety surveys, responding and acting on safety recommendations.

Leadership

* Address ideas, beliefs or viewpoints that should be given serious
consideration.
* Recognize one’s own method of decision making and the role of beliefs, values
and inferences.
* Apply critical analysis to organizational issues after a review of the
evidence.
* Maintain curiosity and an eagerness to explore new knowledge and ideas.
* Promote nursing leadership as both a science and an art.
* Demonstrate reflective practice and an understanding that all leadership
begins from within.
* Provide visionary thinking on issues that impact the health care
organization.
* Recognize the contribution of mental models on behavior.
* Promote systems thinking as an expectation of leaders and staff.
* Consider the impact of nursing decisions on the healthcare organization as a
whole.
* Develop a leadership succession plan.
* Promote nursing leadership as a desirable specialty.
* Mentor current and future nurse leaders.
* Establish mechanisms that provide for early identification and mentoring of
staff with leadership potential.
* Develop a workforce analysis plan and implement strategies to ensure an
adequate and qualified workforce.

Professionalism

* Hold self and others accountable for mutual professional expectations and
outcomes.
* Contribute to the advancement of the profession.
* Participate in and contribute to professional organizations.
* Demonstrate and promote leader and staff participation in professional
organizations.
* Promote leader and staff participation in lifelong learning and educational
achievement.
* Promote professional ce