Nursing Director – MedSurg

Sunnyvale is seeking an experienced Nursing Director to lead our Med-Surg/Telemetry unit. This role is responsible for the clinical, operational, and financial performance of the department, ensuring safe, high-quality patient care and supporting organizational goals.

What You’ll Do:

Provide leadership and direction for the Med-Surg/Telemetry unit

Oversee staffing, quality, safety, service, and patient experience

Support and mentor nursing leaders using Evidence-Based Leadership practices

Collaborate with physicians, staff, and the CNO to resolve issues and improve care

Lead performance improvement initiatives and manage departmental budgets

What your day will look like:

Typically provides leadership to managers and /or frontline level professional staff

Develops long-term plans and strategies for area of defined responsibility aligned with established functional strategies, and works with subordinate managers to operationalize and execute the strategy

Meets staffing productivity goals for each department on predetermined basis. (HPPD)

Communicates priorities and monitors progress, and provides direction and course corrections

Establishes budgets and accountable for managing to achieve expected

Makes decisions guided by resource availability and functional objectives.

Has the knowledge to develop unit staff and ensure that the hemodynamic status of patient and interpretation of results are appropriate and within the nursing scope of practice

Ensure that staff are competent in the nursing process and equipment functioning for unit