Administrative Director Nursing - Ambulatory Surgery Center

Company: Christus Health
Location: San Antonio
Posted on: March 23, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Description Summary: Manages the designated service line and staff for a facility; 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 managers and teams; identifying and addressing staff training and development needs - Medical staff, department heads, and administrators in matters related to nursing service and strategies Financial Management - Recognizes the impact of reimbursement on revenue - Understands the relationship between value-based purchasing and quality outcomes with revenue and reimbursement - Creates, monitors, and analyzes a budget explaining variances - Conduct ongoing evaluation of productivity forecasting future revenue and expenses - Documents capital appropriations and project authorizations Human Resources Management - Evaluates and specifies the critical resources required to accomplish the team's objectives - Initiates requests for required resources based on staff competency with patient acuity - Allocates team resources responsibly and equitably within the scope of labor laws - Calculates resource usage to set a baseline for comparison - Discovers opportunities to improve resource utilization - Implements changes in role consistent with scope of practice - Anticipates and plans for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow - Resolves conflicts in a wide variety of situations, such as workload allocation, schedule overlap etc. - Adjusts management and personal style to fit the needs of different people and different situations - Explores motivational factors and tailors motivational efforts to individual needs and situations for the department - Conducts evaluations on personnel performance at the work place and recommends improvement plans - Coaches others on operating personnel management systems and their processes Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors - Situation Management - Identify issues that require immediate attention - Apply principles of crisis management to handle situations as necessary - Manage conflict - Promote team dynamics - Mentor and coach staff - Promote Professional Management - Promote and encourage stress management - Encourage participation in professional action - Apply principles of self-awareness - Foster a healthy work environment - Diversity - Understand the components of cultural competence as they apply to the workforce - Maintain an environment of fairness and processes to support it - Capitalize on differences to foster highly effective work groups Performance Improvement/Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations - Assesses customer and patient satisfaction while developing strategies to address satisfaction issues - Provides direct service to internal or external customers - Facilitates the resolution of customer problems, issues, or concerns - Monitors and promotes workplace safety requirements resulting in positive patient outcomes - Applies systems thinking knowledge as an approach to analysis and decision-making - Demonstrates accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities - Supports provision of evidence-based nursing care - Promotes and communicates patient information effectively across the continuum of care Leadership - Serves as a leader of patient care - Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc. - Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, dominance, persistence, integrity, confidence - Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events - Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate & attain desired behaviors; increases productivity - Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transformational, and associated techniques - Applies techniques of “action learning” to problem solve and personally reflect on decisions Clinical Performance Improvement - Shares experiences with process performance improvements across multiple areas - Recognizes recurring and difficult programs and explores new or innovative solutions - Leverages technology to facilitate the sharing of clinical performance or outcomes data - Compares and contrasts different approaches for performance improvement; highlights pros and cons - Creates mechanism for ensuring quality and performance measures are understood and valued by nursing staff - Consults on and coaches on developing business cases to justify improvement initiatives Clinical Policies and Standards - Monitors different types of clinical practice to ensure compliance with standards - Evaluates existing and evolving standards and procedures and their impact on the organization - Shares advanced clinical standards and policies across medical specialties - Collaborates with other functions in establishing and documenting joint standards - Participates in the development of clinical policies and practices - Develops control and monitoring mechanisms for clinical policies adherence Healthcare Policy and Ethics Compliance - Shares experiences with addressing diverse problems in healthcare policy compliance - Demonstrates best practices for dealing with complex compliance or non-compliance situations - Guides others in making correct decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas - Designs or revises organizational practices and procedures to ensure compliance with policies - Supports and coaches on mechanisms that encourage attention to compliance issues all clinical activities - Participates in translating policy changes into operational programs and services Healthcare Regulatory Environment - Implements programs as needed to comply with diverse healthcare laws or regulations - Monitors regulatory compliance of all healthcare practices to ensure no violations - Evaluates key aspects of pending healthcare regulations and legislation that may impact company - Provides recommendations and implements solutions to existing and potential legal problems - Remains knowledgeable and shares main considerations and issues related to laws and regulations in the implementation of healthcare practices - Collaborates and communicates with all departments of a healthcare organization for the preparation for external audits Requirements: Education/Skills - Master's Degree Experience - Minimum of 3-5 years clinical patient care experience in a relevant setting - Minimum of 5-10 years of healthcare management experience Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications - RN License in state of employment or compact Work Schedule: 5 Days - 8 Hours Work Type: Full Time

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