Director Nursing Excellence

HCA Houston Healthcare; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental & vision benefits

401(k) match

Stock purchase plan

Education assistance

Time off & leave

Job summary

HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center is seeking a Director Nursing Excellence to lead nursing practice innovation and quality across the organization. The role drives evidence-based practice, research, and shared decision-making councils, partnering with leaders to advance patient care and nursing standards.

The Director collaborates across departments to implement a professional practice model and to sustain Magnet/Pathway for Excellence designations where applicable, while guiding budget

Qualifications

• Requires Basic Cardiac Life Support within 30 days of start date.
• RN – Registered Nurse must be licensed.
• Master's or Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of clinical leadership managing large scale and/or complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Promote a culture of evidence-based practice, nursing research, innovation, excellence, and recognition.
• Embed the nursing professional practice model across the organization.
• Design and implement innovative ways to transform culture, systems and services.
• Improve department or interdepartmental processes for efficiency and effectiveness.
• Oversee data collection and analysis for quality benchmarks and practice standards.
• Lead organizational assessments and facilitate change through leadership collaboration.
• Develop strategies to support clinical quality and shared decision making.
• Prepare and manage budgets and program documents for nursing designation programs.
• Act as liaison with departments, certifying bodies, staff and physicians.

Skills

Clinical leadership

RN

Evidence-based practice

Communication

Education

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

Job description

This position is incentive eligible.

Introduction

Want to join a team of daring managers who care without reservations or limits? Our HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center team is looking for a Director Nursing Excellence. HCA Healthcare is an advanced healthcare network that has committed up to $300 million to our incredible team members over the course of three years.

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Healthcare is committed to research and clinical protocols.

Do you want to impact standards of care and save lives across the country?

Job Summary And Qualifications

The Director for Nursing Excellence functions in the role of clinical leader to promote, develop, and assist with fostering innovation and excellence in nursing practice throughout the organization. The Director is responsible for advancing nursing practice and innovation through organizational shared decision-making councils, unit practice councils, evidence-based practice, and nursing research. The Director for Nursing Excellence 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®.

What you will do in the role:

• 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.
• Designs 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.
• Conducts organizational assessments/gap analyses to meet identified areas of focus for improvement.
• Collaborates with department directors/clinical managers to facilitate effective change throughout the organization.
• Develops and implements organizational strategies and infrastructure to support clinical quality, operational effectiveness, and shared decision making.
• 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 organization 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.
• Serves as liaison between leadership, outside certifying organizations, staff, physicians, and the community.
• Participates in interdepartmental activities and committees as requested in order to improve nursing practice and patient care.
• Maintains current knowledge of applicable policies and procedures as evident in performance.
• Designs and produces reports/trended data/graphs etc. as required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What qualifications you will need:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• (RN) Registered Nurse
• Masters Degree, or Bachelors Degree required
• 5+ years of clinical leadership managing large scale and/or complex project

HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center is a 445+ bed acute care hospital located in the heart of central Houston adjacent to the Medical Center and Museum District, and provides quality care for the greater Houston area. Established in 1975, our hospital has been serving Houston for more than 40 years. We provide a wide range of medical services, including cardiology, bariatrics, orthopedics, neurology, emergency care and more. Our comprehensive medical specialties are here to offer individualized care to every individual that walks through our doors. We also offer 24/7 emergency services and two intensive care units: surgical intensive care unit (SICU) and medical intensive care unit (MICU). We are an accredited Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP) Center and an accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Good people beget good people."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Unlock your potential with a leading healthcare provider dedicated to its patients, colleagues and communities. Help guide our team as a(an) Director Nursing Excellence and help us improve more lives in more ways.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.