THDN Chief Nursing Officer THDN

Texas Health Denton is a 255-bed, full-service hospital providing convenient care to people across North Texas and Southern Oklahoma since 1987.

With more than 1,100 employees and 450 physicians on our medical staff we’re one of Denton County’s largest employers. As part of the Texas Health family and its 28,000+ employees, we’re one of the largest employers in the Dallas Fort Worth area.

Our career growth and professional development opportunities are top-notch and our benefits are equally outstanding.

In collaboration with the President and CMO of the hospital, the CNO develops, approves, and oversees the implementation of policies, procedures, standards of care and practice that provide direction for the delivery of patient care.

• The CNO will direct activities that support compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards and requirements; create processes that support dissemination of data and information to leadership team and staff;
• Collects comprehensive data pertinent to issues, situations and trends. The officer will identify expected outcomes for issues, staffing, practice and documents expected outcomes as measurable goals;

consider factors related to safety, reliability effectiveness, impact on practice, cost, and resources in delivery of nursing care.

The CNO will provide leadership in professional practice setting as a team builder, team player and lead with flexibility through times of challenge.

The CNO will serve in key roles regarding nursing practice, represent nursing to medical-executive team, board of trustees, executive leadership and others as well as assume accountability for overall management of nursing practice, nursing education, professional development, nursing research, nursing administration and nursing services wherever delivered in the organization.

The CNO has the following duties and responsibilities :

• Balanced direction and alignment with the High Reliability channel at the system level.
• Culture creation through push, pull, education and participation.
• Situational Leadership from an eclectic perspective.
• Interprofessional teams formation and implementation.
• Challenge decisions in a non-challenging way.
• Utilize Reward & Recognition in a creative way that supports not only nursing but also interprofessional team building.
• Balance needs of patients and organization.
• Collaborative leadership.
• Seasoned judgment.
• Knowledge of HR.
• Communicating and knowing potential situations may result (down-stream impact).
• Visibility (knowing where you need to be with the end in mind).
• Create and develop a collaborative environment with physicians.
• Spotting talent great discernment abilities.
• Rounding with intent of listening, hearing and responding.
• Organize and lead a results-oriented meeting in a concise manner.
• Exceptional presentation skills.
• Ability to convert strategies into actionable tactics leading to desired outcomes.
16 days ago