Med Surg Nurse Director
TriStar Centennial Medical Center
Murfreesboro, TN

Medical Surgical Nurse Director

This position is incentive eligible.

Introduction

Last year alone, HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours impacting our communities. As a Medical Surgical Nurse Director with TriStar Centennial Medical Center, you can be a manager in an organization that is devoted to giving!

Benefits

TriStar Centennial Medical Center offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Come join our team as a Medical Surgical Nurse Director. We care for our communities and employees! HCA Hope Fund in fourteen years reached a historic milestone: $50 million in help to our colleagues in need. Last year, HCA Healthcare and our colleagues donated $13.8 million dollars to charitable organizations. Apply today!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Director of Medical/Surgical Nursing provides overall administrative and clinical leadership to all designated units within the Med/Surg Service Line. Accountable and responsible for all departmental activities to ensure delivery of quality patient care in a safe and therapeutic environment. The Director will ensure effective administrative management of clinical functions related to personnel and policy in order to meet the mission of patient care, education and research within a fiscally responsible organization.

What you will do in this role:

• Develop a facility framework and strategy to prioritize, delegate, and execute initiatives that align with the division and enterprise strategy for nursing operations​.
• ​​Provide feedback to CNO (Chief Nursing Officer) on cross-functional initiative progress.
• Provide feedback to CNO on nursing initiatives, standards of care, and clinical processes based on key performance metrics.
• ​​Manage execution of nursing initiatives and strategies across the facility​.
• ​​Assist in the development of clinical protocols that use evidence based best practices to provide consistency and drive performance outcomes​.
• ​​Evaluate projects or initiative strategic fit with the organization’s objectives to guide the allocation of human, financial, and technological resources​.
• ​​Build strategic alliances and partnerships within the organization to collaboratively execute business strategies​.
• ​​Interface with cross-functional facility leadership to oversee initiatives impacting nursing aligned with HCA division strategies and facility goals​.
• ​​Engage regularly with facility leadership and staff to identify unique operational needs and assist with development of action plans​.
• Plan and manage projects, including assigned personnel, multiple competing projects, or resource demands to meet project deadlines on time and within budget.
• Use intermediate/advanced features of spreadsheet software and analyze data including formatting summary tables, creating graphs and charts, and making calculations.
• Use database software to enter, retrieve, sort, and filter information as necessary for reporting or report generation.
• ​​Collaborate with analytics experts to track impact of initiatives across key nursing metrics (e.g., efficiency, quality, turnover, etc.)​.
• ​​Monitor and evaluate reports consistently, highlighting areas of change / focus and suggesting action plans​.
• Support nursing operations with knowledge of tools, systems, and evidence-based practices.
• Utilize expert knowledge of clinical systems that support operational efficiencies as it relates to clinical nursing initiatives.
• ​​Interpret business data for the purpose of identifying patterns, trends, and variances in facility operations​.
• Understand complexities and intricate relationships among issues or problems.
• Recognize gaps in existing information that is important for fully understanding an issue or problem.
• ​​Work collaboratively with facility, division and corporate leadership to improve key nursing-driven metrics.

What qualifications you will need:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing required; Master’s Degree in Nursing preferred.
• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of Tennessee or compact state required.
• 3-5 years of related clinical management/supervisory/leadership experience required.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.

TriStar Centennial Medical Center is a 740+ bed comprehensive facility. We offer medical and surgical programs. These include behavioral health and 24-hour emergency. These also include heart and vascular and imaging. These also include neurosciences, oncology, orthopedics, pediatrics, rehabilitation, sleep disorder, and women's services. We are an affiliate of TriStar Health. TriStar Centennial Medical Center is a 43-acre campus. We are home to TriStar Centennial Heart & Vascular Center. We are home to TriStar Centennial Women's Hospital. Our campus includes The Children's Hospital at TriStar Centennial, Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at TriStar Centennial Medical Center, TriStar Centennial Advanced Joint Replacement Institute and TriStar Centennial Parthenon Pavilion.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Become a manager with an organization that invests in your career while giving to the community. We are seeking distinguished applicants for our Medical Surgical Nurse Director opening. Help HCA Healthcare create healthier tomorrows for patients and communities.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.