Chief Nursing Officer - Hi Desert Medical Center

MARKET SUMMARY:
Hi-Desert Medical Center

Hi-Desert Memorial Health Care District distinguishes itself as the leader for healthcare services of the Morongo Basin. A modern, nonprofit 59-bed acute primary care hospital is located on the principal campus of the Hi-Desert Medical Center. Services include a wide range of quality inpatient and outpatient diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation services, home health and hospice services, and a variety of community outreach services.

Hi-Desert Medical Center is the primary provider of health services in the Morongo Basin, serving a population of more than 53,000 people. Patients benefit from caring qualified staff and advanced technology all in a convenient setting located in Joshua Tree, California. The medical center was born of a consolidation of two previously existing hospital districts:
the Hi-Desert Memorial Hospital in Yucca Valley and the Twentynine Palms Hospital District.

Hi-Desert Memorial Health Care District is comprised of 179 licensed beds:
the Hi-Desert Medical Center, a 59-bed primary care hospital, and the Continuing Care Center, a 120-bed skilled nursing facility on the campus of Hi-Desert Medical Center.

Hi-Desert Medical Center has more than 90 physicians in 25 medical specialties and over 600 employees. Licensed by the State of California and fully accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations and the California Medical Association, the hospital holds membership in the California Healthcare Association and the Hospital Council of Southern California.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Chief Nursing Officer provides strategic leadership as the senior executive position responsible for all nursing and other designated patient care functions and services within the hospital organization. The role assumes responsibility for assessing, planning, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating nursing practice on a facility level. The role assumes 24/7 responsibility and has accountability to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care. The Chief Nursing Officer represents nursing concerns on the governing board and at medical staff leadership meetings.

FUNCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:
Retaining great people at the facility

• Collaborate with human resources and other team members to select, on-board, orient, and provide coaching for direct reports.
• Evaluate and monitor facility level people pillar statistics, participate on related calls as necessary.
• Consider and/or implement nurse residency programs to ensure pipeline for facility.
• Collaborate with team members to formulate programs to enhance work life balance.
• Partner with related team members to promote a safe work environment that is based on a zero tolerance for sexual harassment, workplace violence and verbal and physical abuse.
• Collaborate with related team members to promote an effective facility level competency program.
• Collaborate to promote a robust employee development and education program that responds to the unique needs of employees across the career continuum (novice to expert).
• Work cohesively with related team members to develop and implement recruitment and retention strategies that ensure a qualified and stable workforce.
• Participate in workforce planning to ensure an adequate and competent workforce.
• Support the design of effective and competitive compensation and benefits programs.

• Effectively communicate with all internal and external constituents, including staff, colleagues, and physicians.
• Communicate and administer human resource programs and procedures in accordance with established policies.
• Manage organizational relationships in a manner which builds mutual trust and respect. Establish trusting and collaborative relationships.
• Address and manage conflict in a constructive and productive manner.
• Give timely feedback and reinforce positive behaviors.

• Create and communicate a compelling shared vision.
• Develop effective strategies for addressing organizational priorities.
• Develop, communicate, and monitor performance expectations.
• Formulate objectives, goals, and specific strategies related to the organization's mission and vision.
• Understand effective organizational outcome measures in order to balance cost, quality and service.
• Measure and analyze performance from the learning and growth, business process, customer, and financial perspectives.
• Promote a results-oriented environment.
• Develop succession plan for nursing leadership.
• Demonstrate effective change management; able to serve as an organizational change agent.
• Coach and mentor aspiring nurse leaders.
• Create an environment in which professional and personal growth is an expectation.
• Articulate the application of ethical principles to operations.
• Manage organizational and individual performance with appropriate rewards.
• Represent nursing and patient care issues within the organization's governance and medical staff structures.
• Represent nursing and patient care in strategic planning and quality initiatives with the governing body.
• Educate the organization's board members and physicians regarding healthcare/value of nursing care.

• Create an environment that recognizes and values diversity.
• Develop processes to incorporate cultural beliefs into care.
• Design strategies that address the unique needs of a diverse workforce, patient population, and community.
• Assess the current environment and establish indicators of progress toward cultural competency.

• Engage staff and others in decision-making.
• Promote decisions that are patient centered.
• Provide an environment conducive to opinion-sharing.
• Promote systems thinking as a value in the nursing organization.
• Consider the impact of nursing decisions on the health care organization as a whole.
• Provide leadership in building loyalty and commitment throughout the organization.
• Synthesize and integrate divergent viewpoints for the good of the organization.
• Involves employees in decision-making.
• Attend and participate in regional CNO calls and meetings.

• Understand and articulate patient care standards reflected in federal and state regulation, TJC, the state Nurse Practice Act, and organizational policies and procedures.
• Maintain knowledge of current nursing practice and roles and functions within nursing and other healthcare disciplines.
• Maintain current knowledge of patient care delivery systems and innovations.
• Ensure that nursing practice is consistent with current standards and current evidenced based practice.
• Ensure that the care delivery model, clinical environment of care .