Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we‘re more than a healthcare provider—we‘re a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.

Required Behaviors:

• As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC‘s values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

Required Qualifications:

• Masters Degree
• Current RN licensure by the State Board of Nursing of New Mexico or compact (multi-state) license
• Clinical Nurse Specialist Certification
• Previous CNS experience in specialty specific patient care and evidence-based practice
• Previous Management experience
• Strong clinical assessment and decision-making skills
• Demonstration effective interpersonal skills
• Self-motivation and accountability
• Team oriented

Preferred Qualifications:

• Board certification in nursing leadership (i.e., CNML, CENP, or NE-BC)

Duties and Responsibilities:

Patient Care:

• Uses expert knowledge regarding the health care needs of the individual, family and community
• Collaborates with other members of the health care team with complex care patients and other clinical challenges
• Carries out specialty specific therapeutic regimens in accordance with evidence-based care standards and regulatory expectations
• Practices in alignment with the New Mexico Board of Nursing and the national certifying nursing organization

Clinical Leadership:

• Leads quality and outcome improvement initiatives to enhance patient outcomes
• Ensures that patients and families are provided discharge education on disease prevention and management
• Provides leadership in nursing practice and serves as a role model for other registered nurses
• Develops policies and procedures to enhance clinical practices and that align with regulatory expectations

Financial and Strategic Management:

• Understands health care economics and health care public policy.
• Demonstrates strong financial aptitude.
• Exhibits strong business planning and project management abilities.
• Identifies opportunities and provides direction for program development in the in-patient and clinic settings.

Human Resource Management and Leadership:

• Knowledgeable in various recruitment and interviewing techniques.
• Committed to all aspects of employee development including scope of practice.

Quality and Performance Improvement:

• Consistently displays a commitment to improving quality performance.
• Actively participates in departmental and organizational quality initiatives.
• Assures the safety of patients and staff is maintained.

Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors:

• Exhibits effective communication and negotiation skills.
• Can lead a team and crosses boundaries to facilitate collaboration.
• Interface with, and cultivate relations with, professional and community partners.
• Understands one’s values, beliefs, and attitudes and how they affect interactions with others.

Shared Decision-Making:

• Understands the structure and process of shared governance.
• Promotes and implements shared decision-making structures and processes.

Personal and Professional Accountability:

• Actively participants in personal and professional growth and development.
• Practices and supports nursing standards and scopes of practice.
• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:

                                                     Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship

• Other duties as assigned

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:

• Prolonged sitting
• Frequent Interruptions
• Exposure to weather when walking between the CFWE and the Main Hospital
• May have to work professionally with uncooperative, angry applicants and employees while upholding the mission, visions and values of SJRMC