Chief Nursing Officer

Company: Monmouth Medical Center
Location: Long Branch
Posted on: November 22, 2021

Job Description:

Role Summary:
The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for Monmouth Medical Center is responsible for all nursing strategy including operational clinical practice, education and research delivered through nursing clinical services. The CNO is accountable to lead stellar evidence based patient care across the continuum that includes patient and family centered care, leadership of inter-professional care delivery models resulting in outcomes based on continuous quality improvement. The CNO is responsible for integration and coordination of nursing practice across all service lines, and works collaboratively with the rest of the C- Suite team members in alignment with the RWJ Barnabas Health Nursing System Strategic Plan.

Key areas of accountability include:

- Executive leader of the strategy, direction, and operation of the Nursing and Patient Services Division to provide high quality patient care, continually assessing and improving performance.
- Drive greater performance and leverage system thinking and creativity to continuously improve clinical quality metrics, employee engagement, patient care services, expense reduction, and managing staffing resources.
- Establishes and integrates evidence based nursing standards of care and practice in all areas of responsibility.
- Fosters clinical integration across the continuum of patient care services provided by the hospital and the health system.
- Plan, monitor and manage the $125 Million nursing budget, 950 FTE's to ensure achievement of operational and financial goals.
- In alignment with System Chief Nurse effectively establish and implement a strategy between Rutgers SON and RWJB, based on academic/ practice partnership guiding principles and best practices from AACN and AONL.
- Responsible for allocating adequate resources and implementing an effective and ongoing program to monitor, evaluate and improve the quality of care services delivered to patients. Ensures that services are provided with respect to quality, patient and stakeholder requirements, and efficiency.
- Establish a plan to address resource allocation, operational performance as measured by quality, service, cost and growth.
- Develop and implement strategy, in partnership with executive clinical leaders (ie - CMO and CQO) to achieve quality and safety results - including zero defects while maintaining and integrating High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles.
- Assure the highest standards of healthcare delivery and outcomes, ensuring a constant patient focus.

Qualifications:
Education/Certifications
Registered Nurse, licensed in the State of New Jersey or eligible for licensure in NJ.
Doctorate degree in Nursing required, PhD preferred.
10 years of progressive nurse executive leadership experience within an academic medical center environment
A track record in a multi-hospital system, urban, teaching environment is required
Experience in a Magnet hospital.

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