MARKET SUMMARY :
Florida Coast Surgical Hospital will be Tenet Healthcare’s inaugural Treasure Coast facility, situated on twenty-five acres at Becker Road and Florida’s Turnpike. This 54-bed hospital, named the Florida Coast Medical and Surgical Center, will provide a range of surgical services, including orthopedics, spice, robotics, general surgery, and advance cardiac care, along with diagnostic services.
The facility will be supported by the Palm Beach Health Network (PBHN), the largest health system in Palm Beach County. PBHN includes six healthcare facilities that collaborate to deliver exceptional care to the community. Each hospital within the network offers unique, specialize services, ensuring that patients receive high-quality healthcare without having to leave the network.
The CNO will be responsible for establishing a cutting-edge hospital in a scenic coastal community, overseeing, and organizing the opening of the hospital to operational excellence, which is currently under construction and scheduled to open in September 2025. The CNO will be overseeing this pivotal phase, shaping the future of healthcare in our vibrant locale.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Chief Nursing Officer provides strategic leadership as the senior executive position responsible for all nursing and other designated patient care functions and services within the hospital organization. The role assumes responsibility for assessing, planning, coordinating, implementing and evaluating nursing practice on a facility level. The role assumes 24 / 7 responsibility and has accountability to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care. The Chief Nursing Officer represents nursing concerns on the governing board and at medical staff leadership meetings.
FUNCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS & REQUIREMENTS :
Retaining great people at the facility
- Collaborate with human resources and other team members to select, on-board, orient, and provide coaching for direct reports.
- Evaluate and monitor facility level people pillar statistics, participate on related calls as necessary.
- Consider and / or implement nurse residency programs to ensure pipeline for facility.
- Collaborate with team members to formulate programs to enhance work life balance.
- Partner with related team members to promote a safe work environment that is based on a zero tolerance for sexual harassment, workplace violence and verbal and physical abuse.
- Collaborate with related team members to promote an effective facility level competency program.
- Collaborate to promote a robust employee development and education program that responds to the unique needs of employees across the career continuum (novice to expert).
- Work cohesively with related team members to develop and implement recruitment and retention strategies that ensure a qualified and stable workforce.
- Participate in workforce planning to ensure an adequate and competent workforce.
- Support the design of effective and competitive compensation and benefits programs.
Communication and Relationship Building
Effectively communicate with all internal and external constituents, including staff, colleagues, and physicians.Communicate and administer human resource programs and procedures in accordance with established policies.Manage organizational relationships in a manner which builds mutual trust and respect. Establish trusting and collaborative relationships.Address and manage conflict in a constructive and productive manner.Give timely feedback and reinforce positive behaviors.Leadership Influence
Create and communicate a compelling shared vision.Develop effective strategies for addressing organizational priorities.Develop, communicate and monitor performance expectations.Formulate objectives, goals, and specific strategies related to the organization’s mission and vision.Understand effective organizational outcome measures in order to balance cost, quality and service.Measure and analyze performance from the learning and growth, business process, customer, and financial perspectives.Promote a results-oriented environment.Develop succession plan for nursing leadership.Demonstrate effective change management; able to serve as an organizational change agent.Coach and mentor aspiring nurse leaders.Create an environment in which professional and personal growth is an expectation.Articulate the application of ethical principles to operations.Manage organizational and individual performance with appropriate rewards.Represent nursing and patient care issues within the organization’s governance and medical staff structures.Represent nursing and patient care in strategic planning and quality initiatives with the governing body.Educate the organization’s board members and physicians regarding healthcare / value of nursing care.Diversity
Create an environment that recognizes and values diversity.Develop processes to incorporate cultural beliefs into care.Design strategies that address the unique needs of a diverse workforce, patient population, and community.Assess the current environment and establish indicators of progress toward cultural competency.Shared decision-making / Shared Leadership
Engage staff and others in decision-making.Promote decisions that are patient centered.Provide an environment conducive to opinion-sharing.Promote systems thinking as a value in the nursing organization.Consider the impact of nursing decisions on the health care organization as a whole.Provide leadership in building loyalty and commitment throughout the organization.Synthesize and integrate divergent viewpoints for the good of the organization.Involves employees in decision-making.Attend and participate in regional CNO calls and meetings.Clinical Practice Leadership
Understand and articulate patient care standards reflected in federal and state regulation, TJC, the state Nurse Practice Act, and organizational policies and procedures.Maintain knowledge of current nursing practice and roles and functions within nursing and other healthcare disciplines.Maintain current knowledge of patient care delivery systems and innovations.Ensure that nursing practice is consistent with current standards and current evidenced based practice.Ensure that the care delivery model, clinical environment of care and related technology is appropriate to needs of caregivers and patients.Serve as change agent when patient care work / workflow is redesigned.Advocate use of documented best practices.Teach and mentor others to routinely utilize evidenced based data and research.Assure that the clinical perspective is included in organizational decisions.Supports regional senior director and Tenet CNO.Academic Relationships
Provide a supportive and stimulating learning environment for nursing students.Participate in the academic community through advisory and collaborative efforts.Ensure that the educational syste
