Chief Nursing Officer System Owned Hospital

Description

The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) System Owned Hospital provides leadership in all aspects of Nursing in the System Hospital. The Chief Nursing Officer will have full accountability for nursing practice and partner with the Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) for operational clinical services and assigned patient care services throughout the Hospital integrating the UMHS values and principles with a focus on patient and family centered care. The incumbent must be able to assume the System Chief Nursing Officer responsibilities as needed. These functions include: planning, managing, and evaluating all administrative, financial, and operational activities within Nursing and patient care services across inpatient, diagnostic and treatment areas, emergency department as well as, clinical programmatic areas, as assigned. This will include partnering with the CCO as well as with other Hospital leadership and Nurse Managers. This Classification requires registration, certification or licensure with the appropriate agency as identified on the Primary Source Verification Matrix. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, incumbents in this position meet the criteria for exempt status.