Vice President-Evidence- Practice & Professional Development

Position Overview

Benefits and perks available for eligible positions include: robust educational assistance programs, generous paid time off, employee assistance and wellness programs, paid parental leave, qualifying employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program, plus more.

Under the direction of the Chief Nursing Executive, the Vice President of Evidence-Based Practice & Professional Development develops and maintains infrastructure for the application of evidence-based knowledge to improve nursing practice and related outcomes. Collaborates and consults with nursing leaders and clinical nursing staff to assure ABN professional nursing practice standards compliance. Responsible for the development of standardized educational initiatives across the enterprise organization.

Oversees the development, implementation, and evaluation of policies, protocols, and standards in alignment with evidence-based practice. Responsible for advancing nursing practice and innovation through the establishment of shared governance councils across the enterprise to develop shared decision‑making councils, unit practice councils, evidence-based practice, and nursing research. Works closely with leadership and staff in successfully executing initiatives throughout the organization and (when applicable) ANCC designation programs (such as Magnet® and /Pathway to Excellence®) and Beacon Awards.

Responsible for prioritizing initiatives across the health system, guiding implementation of appropriate clinical changes, providing educational programs to achieve system goals, and administering professional development and transition to practice programs focused on retention.

• Provides senior leadership support to the Chief Nursing Officers and enterprise nursing leadership teams.
• Collaborates with leadership and staff to promote a culture of evidence-based practice, nursing research, innovation, excellence, and recognition.
• Collaborates with clinical nurses and leadership to develop and embed the nursing professional practice model into nursing practice throughout the organization.
• Creates and implements innovative ways to transform organizational culture, systems and services.
• Seeks opportunities to improve department or interdepartmental processes, resulting in more efficient or effective services.
• Works with all system-level leaders responsible for improving quality care and patient safety, to design complex system-level process improvement initiatives and maintains oversight of the collecting and analyzing of process improvement data as it relates to NDNQI, patient experience, nursing satisfaction, professional certification and BSN rates. Disseminates data to appropriate units and assists with action planning when benchmarks are not being attained.
• Assumes responsibility for submitting applications, interim monitoring reports, and documents for professional nursing designation programs (initial and re-designation) including business plan and annual budget related to program expenses.
• Serves as a liaison with all departments in the system to promote nursing excellence.
• Oversees shared decision-making council structure (unit and organizational) and mentors clinical staff in leadership skills to ensure successful shared decision structures and processes.
• Leads nursing recognition programs, such as Daisy, nursing certification day, nursing week, etc.
• Maintains current knowledge of applicable policies and procedures as evident in performance.
• Supports Patient Experience efforts to ensure a robust, integrated and standardized plan exists with nursing and the health care team for improvement in the patient experience.
• Analyzes the effectiveness of recruitment and retention efforts, create improvement plans with CNOs and HR leaders.
• Implements and sustains a robust nursing roadmap for professional development.
• Creates partnerships with Deans and Directors of schools of nursing that offer mutually beneficial outcomes for schools and System facilities.
• Provides a placement plan for nursing students - to maximize potential for recruitment and incrementally increases the number of students with experiences throughout the health system.
• Standardizes a Transition to Practice program across all facilities.
• Creates opportunities for nurses to lead or participate in research, quality and performance improvement, and evidence-based practice projects.
• Supports enterprise-wide nursing and clinical quality transformation strategies to reduce variation, waste, cost, and error while improving outcomes, access, and patient satisfaction.
• Supports quality related initiatives and provides strategic direction for the Centers of Excellence, Policies & Standards Resources, and clinical quality improvement infrastructure.
• Partners with physicians, nursing, and administrative leaders to achieve optimal performance in publicly reported quality, safety, and patient experience metrics.
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