RN Director of Nursing Capacity and Resource Management - Relocation Offered!

About this Job :

Our hospital center is leading the way by providing the highest quality clinical care with advanced technology, innovative medical services, and the region's top doctors. Our hospital center not only treats illnesses and injuries but also promotes wellness and community health.

We are a full-service acute care facility with more than 44,000 emergency room visits and nearly 11,000 admissions each year. Our hospital's commitment to advanced technology distinguishes it from community hospitals. Our goal is to help residents of Southern Maryland achieve the highest possible level of physical and mental health and thereby improve the quality of life in our community.

We strive to provide comprehensive inpatient, outpatient, and community services to residents of Southern Maryland.

We achievequality, safety, wellness,andpatient satisfactionthrough a spirit of patient-centered services that connect us to the community we serve.

Our Heart and Vascular Centers cardiac catheterization laboratories are the site of life-saving interventions for heart attack patients, elective angioplasties, and diagnostic procedures.

We have the MedStar Georgetown Cancer Institute (MGCI) at MedStar Southern Maryland Hospital Center, which has technology not available anywhere else in the area, such as Halcyon treatment system and Zap-X

We have a Level II Special Care Nursery

We have a strong neurosciences program, with MedStar Georgetown University Hospital neurologists and neurosurgeons available onsite.

General Summary of Position

Accountability and responsibility for leadership direction and management of nursing resources and capacity management. Leads the day-to-day bed capacity activities of the hospital by assessing and directing the flow of patients from all access avenues through admission discharge and transfer. Anticipates and reports trends to Hospital Administration overseeing patient placement assignments and serving as the clinical liaison to Nursing Units Case Management physician leaders other providers and all clinical departments. Oversight for the Nursing Float Pool and Agency personnel within the hospital. These functions are performed in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations and MedStar Health's philosophy policies procedures and standards.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• 1. Directs and oversees the nursing resources / bed capacity / patient flow and throughput functions within the hospital.
• 2. Organizes plans and monitors the work of the nursing resources and capacity management team.
• Evaluates metrics according to the MedStar Health and hospital policies procedures and performance standards.
• 3. Collaborates with other capacity management leaders at MedStar Health System and across the various entities. Applies knowledge of
• operational needs and business plans to patient flow criteria to maintain optimum patient safety while meeting patient
• care needs. Remains informed about and assures that patient flow decisions are made with respect to legal
• compliance and third-party reimbursement criteria.
• 4. Accomplishes daily real-time bed capacity reconciliation at fixed intervals by direct rounding on patient care units receipt
• of information from the units and Capacity Management system to include

This position has a hiring range of : USD $118,331.00 - USD $230,172.00 / Yr.

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