Associate Director, Nursing Programs - Nursing Administration

Associate Director, Nursing Programs Opportunity in Nursing Administration

Ideal candidate must have a Bachelor’s degree Nursing, TX RN license and five years of professional nursing or healthcare experience to include two years in cancer care and two years of management experience. Three years in policy development, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, strategic planning, or other directly related experience.      

SUMMARY

Promote the provision of clinical nursing care in accordance with national, state, and community standards of practice using current nursing science, published research literature, the Texas Board of Nursing Rules and Regulations/Nurse Practice Act, and other regulatory agencies by coordinating and managing policy development, review and approval.

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

Transformational Leadership/Structural Empowerment    • Establishes quality improvement, compliance and regulatory strategic priorities and goals in consultation with the Executive Directors and Directors of Nursing, and Clinical Administrative Directors to ensure they align with the institutional and divisional strategic initiatives and Magnet nursing standards.
 
• Acts as an agent of change throughout the organization to enhance the quality of care that is delivered.

• Leads Inpatient Quality PACT, and other appropriate Nursing Practice Congress and Division of Nursing committees and workgroups.

• Uses strong, positive communication and team building skills to form effective working relationships with peers, subordinates, and others.

Empirical Quality Results   • Nursing team lead for Safety Intelligence (SI) to ensure appropriate reporting, follow-up and routine assessment of reporting trends utilizing the UHC system.

• Develop expertise in quality/accreditation program standards and serves as resource to Division.

• Develops strong relationships and partnerships across Division of Nursing, across institution and disciplines, and into the community to improve nursing quality outcomes and enhance patient safety.

• Leads and/or actively participates in quality improvement activities for the Division of Nursing and the community of nurses at MDACC.

• Facilitate and direct projects and quality/process improvements related to addressing noncompliance to nursing standards, accreditation agencies, and federal and state regulations for the Division of Nursing and the community of nurses at MDACC.

• Responsible for the review, dissemination and evaluation of nursing quality and patient safety reports/data including NDNQI data coordination (submitting and reviewing). Leads the quarterly Pressure Ulcer Prevalence study and NDNQI Data entry

• Collaborates in the identification of appropriate nursing outcomes measures, and related benchmark data

• Collaborates closely with the Office of Performance Improvement to advance nursing quality and patient safety outcomes.

• Develop mechanisms for routine reporting and trending of patient safety data for nursing leaders and clinical staff

Exemplary Professional Practice/New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvement   • Provides in-services and presentations related to quality and compliance issues.

• Facilitates dissemination of programmatic information to nurses and throughout the institution, using internal communication processes.

• Leads nurse debriefs and coordinates root cause analyses nursing participation with Patient Safety staff

• Ensures completion of nursing action items for root cause/nurse debrief action items

• Participates in quarterly quality rounds, leadership rounds and additional rounding efforts as required

• Provides consultation  to the development of evidence-based, quality clinical nursing practice changes and updates to assist in ensuring nursing compliance consistent with current nursing research, institutional, national and Texas Board of Nursing practice standards, and other accrediting agencies

Other duties as assigned