Job Summary:

Location: Methodist Hospital
Address: 8303 Dodge St. - Omaha, NE

Supports Nebraska Methodist Hospital & Methodist Women's Hospital

Assists in providing quality of care and safety to our patients, employees and providers.

Responsibilities:

Essential Job Functions

1. Provides appropriate care specific to the age of the customer/patient, to ensure understanding and comfort level of treatment, as outlined in the Age Specific Criteria.

• Demonstrates ability to identify opportunities for and give individualized customer service/patient care according to customer/patient needs.
• Establish an environment that values diversity (e.g., age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, culture).

2. Leading - Motivating and influencing, managing vision and purpose of areas of responsibility.

• Develops strategic plan for the areas of responsibility to ensure patient-centered focus and alignment with the organization's strategic plan.
• Duties include development, implementation, and coordination of patient care services.
• Cultivates a culture of resilience.

3. Standards & Accountability – Clinical quality management and service excellence.

• Provides leadership in the determination of clinical and administrative direction and goals at the local and system levels.
• In collaboration with the medical staff, physician leadership and hospital, participates in the development, implementation of excellentclinical practices, evidence-based standards, patient care programs and protocols to ensure safe patient care.
• Promotes and demonstrates commitment to continuous Performance Improvement to meet or exceed national benchmark standards and ensure that appropriate actions are taken in response to analysis of data.
• Facilitates medical and nursing research and use of evidence-based practice.

4. Planning & Decision Making – Planning, prioritizing, time management, problem solving, innovation, initiative and financial savvy.

• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of revenue drivers.
• Assess and allocate staffing effectiveness based on patient care needs.
• In collaboration with the campus leadership teams facilitates the development of an annual budget forecasting revenue, expenses and capital expenditures.
• Solicits physician input and shares information regarding key initiatives and care delivery structure, process and outcome.
• Follows through on Medical Staff concerns regarding care process and care delivery structures.
• Responsible for monitoring the performance of actual to budget and developing action plans to address variances.
• Participates in development and implementation of hospital systems which support the structure, process and outcomes of patient care.
• Participates in ongoing Value Analysis of products.
• Leads and facilitates program development.

5. Developing People - Recruiting top talent, developing and retaining top talent.

• Serves as a professional role model of the organization's leadership standards, mentor to motivate, develop, retain and recruit future leaders.
• Serves as a change agent, assisting all staff in understanding the importance, necessity, impact and process of change.
• Serves as a representative to local and national professional organizations to remain current about nursing issues and promotes the image of nursing.
• Develops and maintains leadership succession plan.
• Mentors current and future leaders.
• Collaborates with academic institutions in the community to mentor graduating clinicians.

6. Compliance - Achieve compliance with appropriate standards relating to operations, safety and patient care as promulgated by regulatory agencies, accrediting commissions, professional organizations, and Hospital board and administration.

• Reviews and revised procedures and policies which assure regulatory compliance and consistency between departments and services.
• Ensures compliance with safe and efficient use of equipment and other material resources.
• Provides direction in the development and implementation of policies and procedures that guide and support the provision of services.
• Effectively manages system-wide processes that support patient flow (admissions, assessment of treatment, transfers and discharges).
• Holds others and staff accountable to comply with ethical standards of practice.

Schedule:

Days Monday-Friday

Job Description:

Job Requirements

Education

• Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN) required. If no BSN, must have a Masters Degree in Nursing.
• Masters degree required -Nursing, hospital or business administration (MA, MBA, MHA, etc).

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years clinical experience as a health care/clinical practitioner required.
• Minimum of 4 years experience in a middle to upper management position required.

License/Certifications

• Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) strongly preferred at time of hire, required within 3 months of hire.
• Current valid Registered Nurse (RN) license, valid compact multistate license, or a temporary permit while awaiting licensure required.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Strong interpersonal skills to act as a problem definer, problem solver, and negotiator while working with complex variables, including multiple departments and procedures, diverse groups and sophisticated, integrated systems.

Physical Requirements

Weight Demands

• Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force.

Physical Activity

• Occasionally Performed (1%-33%):
  • Climbing
  • Crawling
  • Kneeling
  • Sitting
• Frequently Performed (34%-66%):
  • Balancing
  • Carrying
  • Crouching
  • Distinguish colors
  • Keyboarding/typing
  • Lifting
  • Pulling/Pushing
  • Repetitive Motions
  • Standing
  • Stooping/bending
  • Twisting
  • Walking
• Constantly Performed (67%-100%):
  • Grasping
  • Hearing
  • Reaching
  • Seeing/Visual
  • Speaking/talking

Job Hazards

• Not Related:
  • Explosives (pressurized gas)
  • Electrical Shock/Static
  • Radiation Alpha, Beta and Gamma (particles such as X-ray, Cat Scan, Gamma Knife, etc)
  • Radiation Non-Ionizing (Ultraviolet, visible light, infrared and microwaves that causes injuries to tissue or thermal or photochemical means)
• Rare (1-33%):
  • Chemical agents (Toxic, Corrosive, Flammable, Latex)
  • Mechanical moving parts/vibrations
• Occasionally (34%-66%):
  • Biological agents (primary air born and blood born viruses) (Jobs with Patient contact) (BBF)
  • Physical hazards (noise, temperature, lighting, wet floors, outdoors, sharps) (more than ordinary office environment)
  • Equipment/Machinery/Tools