Director of Obstetrical NursingCalhoun, GA

Director Of Obstetrical Nursing

As a team member at AdventHealth Gordon, you'll help us extend the healing ministry of Christ through whole-person care that tends to the needs of each patient's body, mind and spirit. Believing that we feel best when we feel whole, we've developed a comprehensive program that touches all aspects of health. Our team members combine their unique experiences with uncommon compassion to provide care for issues related to specialties like cancer care, endocrinology, general surgery, orthopedics, pain medicine, sports medicine, urology and women's services. Join us and make a difference today. When you're ready to take the next step in your career to provide lifesaving care, learn more about the open positions at our hospital in Calhoun County.

Every day, our fellow team members show up to work, unified by one shared mission: Extending the Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ. As a faith-based health care organization, our story is one of hope as we strive to heal and restore the body, mind and spirit. Though our facilities are spread across the country, this unwavering belief binds us together. Across every office, exam and patient room, we're committed to providing individualized, holistic care. This is our Christian mission, and it inspires us to help make communities healthier and happier.

The Director of The Baby Place monitors the overall performance of the department and provides instruction and direction to staff on a daily basis. The Director is responsible for customer satisfaction, financial management, regulatory compliance, Human Resources issues, employee competency, performance improvement, maintaining and complying with policies and procedures, and regular communication with employees.

The Registered Professional Nurse (RN) is responsible for the delivery of coordinated nursing care for a patient and/or an assigned group of patients within a patient care unit and for the day-to-day management and supervision of the related clinical activities. The RN is also responsible for supervising and responsibly directing the activities of various levels of assigned nursing and ancillary personnel utilizing both professional and supervisory discretion and independent judgment, while practicing within the State, facility and regulatory guidelines.

Principal duties and job responsibilities include:

• Share customer satisfaction:
• Reviews the patient satisfaction results with staff at monthly staff meetings.
• Discusses ways in which the employees can contribute to patient satisfaction. Departmental minutes reflect documentation not less than quarterly.
• Provides specific feedback on the annual evaluation to each employee as to his or her contribution to patient satisfaction. Sets specific goals for employees scoring satisfactory or lower.
• Financial management:
• Reviews monthly departmental financial statements and research material variances to budget and prior period.
• Reviews productivity reports as often as are merited (daily for clinical departments). Changes staffing levels to reflect appropriate productive hours per unit of service.
• Strategic planning for business development/ retention by research and submitting capital requests.
• Communication with employees:
• Conducts monthly departmental meetings documenting names of persons in attendance and minutes of discussion. Secretary and Department Director sign a copy of the minutes for internal record.
• Assures persons not in attendance have access to review meeting minutes.
• Regulatory compliance:
• Complies with The Joint Commission (TJC) and Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) standards to ensure the hospital maintains accreditation.
• Complies with CMS (Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services) Conditions of Participation to ensure appropriate reimbursement. Complies with State of Georgia DHR ORS (Department of Human Resources, Office of Regulatory Services) Rules and Regulations.
• Ensures compliance with changes made by any regulatory agency. Participates in the Continuous Survey Readiness Committee and conducts monthly tracers utilizing the electronic database.
• Leads record reviews departmentally as recommended by AHS Risk Management (i.e. Apgar <7 at 5 minutes; Fetal Heart Monitoring Strip review comparative to documentation, etc.).
• Promotes a culture of safety through employee survey participation, occurrence reporting and follow up related to risk prevention activities/surveys.
• Human resources:
• Works with Employment Recruiter for staffing, which may include: Selection/Screening, Interviews, and Reference Checks.
• Ensures employees are oriented to Gordon Hospital and their respective department, as well as reviewing employees job description.
• Ensures each employee is evaluated in accordance with Gordon Hospitals Performance Appraisal Policy (1800.46) New hires after 90 days, and annually thereafter.
• Addresses progressive counseling through verbal and written communication. Consults Human Resources for guidance in progressive counseling and terminations.
• Employee competency:
• Provides an initial orientation for new employees upon hire.
• Provides a 90-day competency evaluation for all new hires.
• Provides an annual evaluation of competency based on job performance.
• Changes competency evaluations as needed when new services provided, new job responsibilities or if clinical changes occur (new treatment, procedures, equipment, standard of care changes, new regulatory policy)
• Ensures through evaluation process that employees are competent to do job for which they were hired.
• Conforms to GH Policies and Procedures:
• Ensures that departmental staff complies with Gordon Hospitals hospital-wide policies, as well as departmental policies.
• Reviews authored organizational policies every three years and/or when new standards are released/existing standards revised.
• Reviews departmental procedures every three years and/or when new standards are released/existing standards revised. Coordinates posting on the intranet through the Administrative Assistant.
• Performance improvement:
• Selects not less than one (1) PI project for the year (submit request through annual PI indicator selection process).
• Involves staff in the Performance Improvement process.
• Reviews monthly PI indicator results, develops and implements applicable action plans based on findings.
• Submits monthly data to the AHS Office of Clinical Effectiveness Office (due to Quality by the 5th of the month data for previous month).

Qualifications:

The expertise and experiences you'll need to succeed:

• Requires one (2) year hospital management experience or requires a minimum of five (5) years' experience in Obstetrics, Mother/Baby, Nursery
• Must be a Registered Nurse with valid Georgia licenses issued by the Agency for Healthcare Administration of Georgia
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred
• Master's Degree preferred

This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances.

Category: Nursing

Organization: AdventHealth Gordon

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: 1 - Day

Req ID: 25029847