POSITION PURPOSE 

The Nurse Leader (NL) is a licensed registered nurse (RN) accountable for leading, managing and advancing people, processes and / or programs that support direct or indirect patient care.  The NL promotes and advocates for patients, nurses / colleagues and the practice of nursing as defined by clinical area(s) of expertise and assignment.  

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS 

• Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health and MercyOne Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions. 

• Our Trinity Health Culture: Knows, understands, incorporates and demonstrates our Trinity Health Mission, Values, Vision, Actions and Promise in behaviors, practices and decisions.  

• Professional Nursing Practice: Acts independently and appropriately within license, scope of knowledge and experience in practice area.  Supports safety by adhering to standards and acting as a champion role model.  Accountable for personal learning and development by participating in knowledge, skill and competency enhancing activities.   

• Professional Nursing Process: Knows, understands, incorporates and demonstrates (document, teach, coordinate, advocate) standard elements of professional practice: Assess, Diagnose, Outcomes Identification / Solutions, Plan, Implement, Evaluate (ANA); Participates in the development of clinical standards that are collaborative, collegial and supported by current and relevant evidence-based practices, science, trends and data (clinical and administrative) and patient care (AONL).  

• Professional Leadership Practice: Inspires team to embrace the organization’s Mission, Values and Vision; Cultivates excellence by supporting growth and development of team; Advocates for continuous development with focus on mentoring and succession planning; Engages and fosters transpersonal teaching and learning in the context of the caring relationship; Embraces and encourages humanistic-altruistic values and behaviors; Advances nurses and others in the provision of quality-focused, patient-centered and relationship-based healthcare; Utilizes transformational leadership principles (Magnet); Leads team effectively through change, recognizing reach beyond nursing to include broader healthcare implications; Embraces ideas and cultural differences while managing complex or competing priorities; Enhances a culturally proficient work team through respect, dialogue and inclusion. 

• Professional Leadership Process: Provides leadership and retains accountability for delegation, choices, decisions and outcomes; Collaborates with key stakeholders and contributes to quality and improvement practices; Empowers staff to creatively problem-solve through the caring process (Caritas); Enhances an environment that prioritizes patient and colleague safety utilizing established and evidence-based practices, tools, methodologies; Drives effective patient, process, performance and stewardship / financial outcomes as measured by established metrics and trended data; Exhibits agility and willingness to take on new and additional responsibilities.  

• Environment of Care: Facilitates a healing environment, reverentially encouraging and supporting basic needs as sacred acts, sustaining human dignity; Practices in an environmentally safe, professional manner; Values and  advocates for the patient’s cultural beliefs and faith; Monitors and initiates corrections or evidence-based practices; Promotes optimum physical and psychological behaviors; Influences effective, judicious and financially responsible use of resources (people, equipment, supplies, materials).  

• Colleague Experience and Well-being: Fosters a continuous learning and development environment; stimulates and adopts innovative practices; Cultivates caring by encouraging a work environment that is respectful of colleague well-being; Understands and embraces change through the active encouragement of innovation and provisioning teams with tools and resources necessary for successful transformation; Leads others through change process. 

• Compassion and Communication: Incorporates colleague well-being dimensions throughout the colleague experience as an essential component of leading nursing practices; Actively participates in building community by fostering trusting relationships; Visible and accessible to the team; Facilitates development of interpersonal relationships and use of effective and respectful written, verbal and nonverbal communications; Demonstrates authentic listening by forgiving and accepting positive and negative feelings; Encourages and models communication that respects diversity and divergent opinions; Employs communication strategies that shows the value of patient and family participation in care.  

• Maintains a Working Knowledge of applicable federal, state and local laws / regulations, Trinity Health Integrity and Compliance Program and Code of Conduct, as well as other policies, procedures and guidelines in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behavior and safe work practices.