JOB SUMMARY
Provides leadership and oversight to the strategic development and implementation of processes to address the professional practice of nursing. Ensures the development and execution of the organization’s pursuit of Magnet/Pathways designation through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Facilitates achievement of top quartile in nurse sensitive indictors and nurse professional satisfaction. Champions and manages the organizational change required in adopting evidenced based methodologies that embrace the shared decision making that is the foundation of professional nursing.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Directs, plans, organizes, develops and directs the human and material resources necessary to support compliance with standards defined by the American Nurses Association and other professional nursing organizations.
Serves as primary liaison between the organization and the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program office. Facilitates necessary changes. Clarifies magnet-related issues and coordinates responses to ANCC requests.
Serves as PeaceHealth expert and resource to access internal/external subject matter experts on professional practice, standards of nursing care, and nursing practice in Washington, Oregon and Alaska
Facilitates nursing leadership understanding and integration of ANCC standards into practice. Promotes departmental strategic planning that addresses implementing and showcasing the application of the model components. Understands the structures at each hospital to foster professional governance and assists in the development and sustainability of Shared Governance
Serves as the liaison between the organization and the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program office. Oversees clarification of Magnet related issues and responses to ANCC requests. Establishes and maintains public relations with requisite agencies.
Oversees the design of the nurse leader peer review process to ensure compliance with ANCC standards at all levels of the nursing management
Participates in the development of professional nursing educational materials and presentations. Motivates toward the achievement of excellence in nursing practice with a focus on the development of nursing leadership
Directs the composition, preparation, editing, publication, and submission of the magnet/pathways to excellence application and re-application documentation. Oversees organizational preparation for the site visit.
Oversees the collection and maintenance of a minimum data set for nursing using the demographic data necessary for ANCC magnet documentation submission. Ensures interim reporting required by the Magnet Program Office is completed annually and semi-annually.
Ensures the presence of a basic nurse management boot camp to provide skills required for professional nurses. Integrates to ensure an organized and coordinated approach to leadership development for nursing at all levels
Chairs improvement efforts/collaboratives or other identified work groups to ensure metrics meet or exceed benchmark.
Ensures that policy and procedure and standards of nursing care and protocols reflect evidence-based practice, Serves as PeaceHealth subject matter expert on the nurse practice act and Boards of Registered Nursing in Oregon, Washington and Alaska
Perform other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION:
Master’s Degree required.
Doctoral degree strongly preferred.
EXPERIENCE/TRAINING:
Minimum of 7 years broad based nursing system practice leadership and development
Experience in a complex healthcare system with direct operations experience
A solid knowledge and understanding of the Magnet credentialing process and prior work experience at a Magnet facility is required
Preferred experience with implementing or leading an Evidence Based Fellowship Program or Nurse Research program
Preferred experience or certification in Lean concepts and principles.
LICENSE/CERTIFICATION
Current RN licensure
OTHER SKILLS:
Ability to deliver financial results for areas of accountability.
Ability to create budget plan and return on investment analysis
Knowledge and experience of Lean principles
Proven skills in team facilitation, project implementation, effective data interpretation, customer relations
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects in a highly matrixed and disbursed organization
Vancouver, WA
PeaceHealth, based in Vancouver, Wash., is a nonprofit Catholic health system offering care to communities in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. PeaceHealth has approximately 16,000 caregivers, a multi-specialty medical group practice with more than 1,200 physicians and providers, and 10 medical centers serving both urban and rural communities throughout the Northwest.
In 1890, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace founded what has become PeaceHealth. Today, PeaceHealth is the legacy of its founding Sisters and continues to serve communities when invited to do so with a spirit of collaboration and stewardship. For more information, visit peacehealth.org.
Our Mission
We carry on the healing mission of Jesus Christ by promoting personal and community health, relieving pain and suffering, and treating each person in a loving and caring way.
Our Core Values
Respect
We respect the dignity and appreciate the worth of each person as demonstrated by our compassion, caring and acceptance of individual differences.
Collaboration
We value the involvement, cooperation and creativity of all who work together to promote the health of the community.
Stewardship
We choose to serve the community and hold ourselves accountable to exercise ethical and responsible stewardship in the allocation and utilization of human, fi nancial and environmental resources.
Social Justice
We build and evaluate the structures of our organization and those of society to promote the just distribution of health care resources.