Dir Nursing Unit- 4F Med Surg, Full-Time, Days

Demonstrates through behavior Decatur Morgan Hospital’s mission, vision and values. In addition, the director provides operational leadership of 4th Floor. This role is responsible for ensuring high-quality patient care, nursing excellence, regulatory compliance, and staff engagement. The director collaborates with clinical and administrative leaders to drive outcomes, foster a culture of safety, and promote professional development across the nursing team.

• Develop and implement nursing department goals and strategic initiatives in alignment with organizational priorities.
• Provide leadership in planning, directing, and evaluating nursing operations to ensure optimal patient outcomes and efficient workflows.
• Lead quality and performance improvement initiatives; analyze data to support evidence-based decisions.
• Serve as a role model and advocate for a culture of excellence, accountability, compassion, and collaboration.

• Ensure nursing care standards, protocols, and policies are met across all units under the director’s supervision.
• Maintain compliance with federal, state, and accrediting agency standards (e.g., Joint Commission, CMS).
• Oversee staffing, scheduling, productivity, and resource management to ensure safe patient care delivery.
• Respond to patient care concerns and collaborate on service recovery efforts as needed.

• Recruit, hire, and retain top nursing talent; manage performance and professional development of nurse leaders and staff.
• Foster a supportive and inclusive environment that encourages professional growth, shared governance, and lifelong learning.
• Champion leadership development and succession planning for nurses and emerging nurse leaders.

• Develop and manage department budgets; monitor expenditures and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Participate in capital planning and resource allocation to support nursing and patient care initiatives.
• Ensure proper use and maintenance of equipment and supplies within budgeted limits.

• Partner with interdisciplinary leaders to support patient flow, care coordination, and quality improvement.
• Communicate clearly and regularly with staff, leadership, and stakeholders on department performance, goals, and initiatives.
• Participate on various hospital committees, councils, and projects.
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Apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.  Deals with several abstract and concrete variables.

Practical application of fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion, statistical analysis, in addition to basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division abilities.

Reading: Read scientific and technical journals, abstracts, and financial reports.  Records data via paper and electronic means. 

Communicates verbally using effective voice tone, diction and medical terminology.

Gathers, complies and classifies information about patients and other people.  Analyzes and interprets data to carry out operational functions of the hospital.

Speaking, hearing, talking with people to convey or exchange information.  Includes giving directions to physicians, staff, patients, families and/or visitors.

 Manual dexterity: Use of body members or special devices to work, and perform functions pertinent to accomplishment of job assignment.

Experience: Minimum of five years hospital clinical experience.  Minimum of two years in a leadership role such as charge nurse, manager or director.