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Job Purpose:Serves patients by managing staff; developing and enforcing nursing policies and services.Duties: Defines nursing practices by encouraging and supporting research and potential quality improvement efforts. Influences medical center policy by providing nursing services perspective. Accomplishes the financial goals of the medical center by improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of nursing services. * Maintains medical center legal requirements by interpreting hospital policy and state nursing laws; investigating potential breaches; studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; advising medical center chief executive officer on needed actions. Identifies future nursing services requirements by establishing rapport across interdisciplinary services; interpreting information from potential and actual patients and families; conferring with people in a position to understand service requirements. Maintains nursing staff by determining strategic recruiting focus; reviewing and developing selection criteria; establishing hiring practices; evaluating effectiveness of newly hired nurses. Maintains credentialed staff by keeping abreast of advances and specialty opportunities in new and emerging nursing services and technologies. * Maintains nursing services operations by defining required program and operational and personnel policies; implementing a nursing strategy. * Maintains a collaborative patient services work environment by fostering a spirit of interdisciplinary cooperation among nursing services, medical staff, and support and ancillary services.