Nursing Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing required; MSN or related health care related degree required.
• Ten years of nursing experience required to include five years’ experience of hospital clinical practice and demonstrated leadership management capabilities.
• Five years of progressive experience in professional development.
• Current RN licensure in state of practice

Nice To Haves

• DNP preferred.
• Nursing leadership certifications: NPD-BC, NE-BC, NEA-BC or equivalent preferred

Responsibilities

• Creates nursing excellence program strategies that develop standardized processes and practices to improve efficiency, maximizing continuity of patient care while maintaining professional standards within disciplines and across patient care centers.
• Leads nursing excellence program planning, implementation and evaluation including performance standards and methods of measuring and monitoring these standards within nursing.
• Works collaboratively with nursing, physicians, operational and ancillary professional leadership to ensure Magnet/Pathway designation goals are accomplished
• Serves as a liaison to the College of Nursing and other entities to develop and maintain relationships to ensure integration of research and evidence-based practice into nursing care practice
• Serves as liaison with ANCC Magnet/Pathway
• Maintains current knowledge of Magnet/Pathway designation standards
• Provides leadership to the department of nursing in interpretation and compliance with ANCC Magnet/Pathway program standards and expectations
• Promotes excellence in nursing practice and research
• Collaborate with quality partners to improve patient outcomes
• Develops strategies that inform and support standard approaches to nurse/ nursing roles onboarding and credentialing in both inpatient and ambulatory settings
• Monitors the nurse excellence department’s budget
• Leads the preparation, editing and publication of the annual demographics, Mid-designation report, Magnet/Pathway re-designation document, and site visit preparation.
• Provides oversight for the evaluation of program outcomes which support the requirements of the Magnet/Pathway Recognition Program
• Monitors and implement strategies to improve nurse satisfaction, nurse sensitive indicators, and patient satisfaction
• Provides the leadership and guidance for the ongoing evaluation of Jefferson Nursing Professional Governance structure and shared decision-making mentorship of frontline staff nurse leaders.
• Leads continuing evaluation and integration of the Professional Practice Model into clinical practice
• Coordinates assessment of Magnet/Pathway readiness through gap analysis and benchmarking outcomes.
• Works closely with CNO and senior nursing leadership to formulate and implement plans to close gaps and achieve targets.

Benefits

• medical (including prescription)
• supplemental insurance
• dental
• vision
• life and AD&D insurance
• short- and long-term disability
• flexible spending accounts
• retirement plans
• tuition assistance
• voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts.
• tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service.