The Clinical Nursing Director (CND) plans and manages clinical and administrative operations with 24/7 accountability and responsibility for Children's Emergency Services (CES).
CES is a primary entry point for pediatric patients 0-20 years of age admitted to C.S. Mott Children's Hospital - a verified Level One Pediatric Trauma and Children's Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons. CES serves as a tertiary care facility with referrals from across the state. CES nurses partner with board-certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine faculty, pediatric residents, and advanced practice providers to provide expert patient and family-centered emergency care to greater than 40,000 patients who present each year with injuries and illness across the range of acuity from minor to critical care. The Emergency Department provides staff nurses and nurse leaders financial support for required competency training to include ENPC, TNCC, PALS, & ACLS. In addition, obtaining professional certification (CPEN, CEN, TCRN) in emergency or trauma care is highly encouraged, and financial support is provided.
The CND provides professional nursing leadership and administrative direction for nursing practice for CES nurses, including Nursing Supervisors, Educational Nurse Coordinators (ENC), RNs, and techs. The CND plans and manages the clinical and administrative emergency department operations, with responsibility for the following: assuring implementation of patient care and quality standards; planning, organizing and evaluating pediatric clinical practice; educational activities; participating in planning, development and implementation of unit policies, goals and objectives and standards of nursing practice; counseling and evaluating the performance and clinical practice of the nursing staff; oversight of staff development and unit orientation programs to ensure compliance with practice standards; identification and resolution of unit operational problems; represent the unit on assigned clinical area and health-system committees; maintain compliance with federal and state regulations, safety, and patient care; actively collaborate in the development of annual budgets; manage and provide variance reporting of activity, payroll, commodity and capital budgets; participate in/lead new program development & implementation.
Institutional priorities and unit-specific goals and outcomes are achieved in collaboration with the Clinical Nurse Specialist, Emergency Department Medical/MPlan Director, Service Chief, and Director of Operations.
- Plan, counsel, and evaluate performance and clinical practice for a team of roughly 150 FTEs; comprised of nurses, supervisors, educators and techs.
- Develop and implement unit goals and objectives which include the establishment of standards of practice in patient care consistent with national professional and regulatory guidelines in collaboration with CES Triad.
- Integrate unit goals and objectives with Nursing Service goals and objectives. Advise and assist with the establishment of priorities and institutional program development.
- Work closely with medical staff and other disciplines for the successful implementation of patient, unit and institutional objectives. Assist in the resolution of interdisciplinary operating problems.
- Establish minimum/maximum staffing patterns to ensure high quality patient care. Initiate and implement a staffing schedule which is consistent with care requirements and responds to varying patient activity and acuity.
- Identify and recommend specific staffing needs and position qualifications consistent with emergency department goals and objectives.
- Interview and select qualified personnel.
- Actively collaborate in the development of annual budgets including activity, payroll, commodity, capital, and revenue.
