Description Summary: Manages the nursing services and staff for a department; ensures quality and full compliance with relevant policies and standards. Responsibilities: • Implementing and monitoring programs and practices for the delivery of safe and efficient quality nursing care for patients and their families • Ensuring consistent application of nursing services policies and standards throughout the organization • Monitoring patient outcomes and quality and effectiveness of nursing care • Overseeing performance of teams; identifying and addressing staff training and development needs • Apprising medical staff, department heads, and administrators in matters related to nursing service and strategies Standard I: Financial Management • Recognizes the impact of reimbursement on revenue • Understands the relationship between values-based purchasing and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement • Creates, monitors, and analyzes a budget; explaining variance • Conducts ongoing ev...