The ACNO is responsible for assessing the environment, forecasting trends, transmitting values, communicating ideas, developing, and implementing policies, managing, and initiating innovative systems and programs that promote excellence in service, quality, and safety for patient care delivery and that create an excellent place to work. This position provides nursing personnel with leadership, decision-making, and direction in patient care services and defined areas, ensuring nurses and other members of the patient care team feel empowered to serve as patient representatives/advocates. The ACNO will work in close partnership with executives from the health system, hospital campuses, physician leaders and groups, and staff to develop comprehensive access to care including evaluation, planning and implementation of both inpatient and outpatient innovative care models which enhance the delivery of patient care quality and efficiency. Along with the health system and hospital executive committees will establish key collaboration partnerships with physicians and administrative colleagues, community providers, and interest groups influencing and developing both internal and external constituencies to promote and coordinate adult service lines throughout the community and neighboring market areas. The ACNO aligns the priorities of the patient care unit leadership dyads and collaboration with the medical or clinical directors to assure the operational and clinical standards promote a center of quality care and work environment excellence. The ACNO will lead adhering to the ethical principles, practice standards, and strategic objectives of the Department of Nursing Services and Patient Care and University of Iowa Health Care. They will effectively interpret, implement, and ensure that all sites of care maintain compliance with Joint Commission (JC), Iowa Department of Inspection, Appeals, and Licensing (DIAL), and Iowa Board of Nursing (IBON) standards within the Department of Nursing Services and Patient Care.
This nursing leader will be responsible for 1700 FTE's, operating budget of $188 M, and will help with the design and build out of a new inpatient tower, over the next several years. The main areas of responsibility are med/surge units, Intensive care units, Intermediate care units, Behavioral Health units, and ED nursing staff.
Minimum 7 years of comprehensive expertise in operational execution
Progressive leadership experience in a complex health organization or academic health care environment that demonstrates knowledge of organization, operation, and coordination of hospital activities.
Ability to translate strategic priorities into operational reality, aligning communication, accountabilities, resource capabilities, internal systems to ensure strategic priorities yield measurable and sustainable results.
Identify and drive organizational and cultural changes using new approaches to improve results by transforming organizational culture, systems, or products/services.
Knowledgeable of applicable laws and regulatory/accreditation standards.
Demonstrated experience working effectively in a welcoming and respectful workplace environment.
As a major tertiary- and quaternary-level health care facility, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics includes the main adult-care hospital, a specialized disabilities and development outpatient facility (serving pediatric and adult patients), and UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital. With more than 250 specialty and subspecialty clinics, UI Hospitals & Clinics is the state’s only comprehensive academic medical center and serves patients from across the state and the region. On any given day, nearly 12,000 staff members collaborate to provide safe, high-quality health care and outstanding service to patients and their families.UI Hospitals & Clinics is part of UI Health Care which includes UI Health Care Medical Center Downtown in Iowa City and outpatient clinic facilities across Iowa in population centers such as Waterloo, Des Moines, and Cedar Rapids. In 2025, the system will open a three-story hospital and six-story medical office in the nearby community of North Liberty. The health care system employs nearly 20,000 individuals, including over 1,000 staff physicians and dentists, nearly 800 resident and fellow physicians, and more than 5,000 nursing staff members focused on providing an outstanding care and service for patients and their families.
