RN Director-Women's and Children's

The Nursing Director, Women and Children's Service (WCS) is responsible for the direction, leadership, and support of operational, financial, programmatic, continuous improvement and personnel activities for inpatient Women and Children's care provided at Henry Ford Jackson Hospital. The director position is an essential leadership role within the WCS division. The director is responsible for all National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) quality metrics, adherence to regulatory requirements for 5 specific areas of care: pediatrics, labor and delivery, mother/baby, special care nursery, OBED, and the milk bank, use of Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) standards.

The director is the subject matter expert that drives quality, safety, accountability and engagement. Additionally, they are responsible for directing patient flow and care coordination through optimizing day-to-day operations, budgeting, financial management, and human resource management. Areas of direct oversight and responsibility include inpatient nursing, nursing assistants, unit secretaries, staffing coordinators, float pool, House Managers, and payroll specialists, and include establishing, meeting and continuously monitoring goals and objectives for areas of responsibility while maintaining alignment with system strategic goals and objectives.

This leader works closely with a variety of stakeholders, coordinating the activities of patient flow throughout a patient's stay and discharge to home or other outside facility. Provides coaching (e.g. teaching, leading and mentoring team members in continuous process improvement) and interacting with physicians, mid-level providers, team members, patients and family members, and other leaders at Henry Ford Health to identify and support improvement efforts toward performance excellence. They will serve as the programmatic and operational leader for inpatient care and work closely with other leaders.