Senior Drug Diversion Nurse Leader: Prevention & Analytics

Dartmouth Health; Lebanon (NH); Hybrid; USD 99,590 - 159,328; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Loan repayment

Relocation assistance

Housing coordinator

Tuition reimbursement

Earned time

CEU/Training programs

Simulation center

Shared governance

Research-focused environment

Nursing CE Council accreditation

Job summary

Dartmouth Health in Lebanon, NH is seeking a Senior Drug Diversion Specialist to serve as the primary liaison to Dartmouth-Hitchcock. You will lead complex diversion investigations, develop prevention strategies, and mentor leaders in change management, Just Culture, and data-driven problem solving.

The role emphasizes collaboration across Pharmacy, Nursing, and Hospital operations, with responsibilities including program leadership, policy maintenance, and education to reduce diversion risk

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with 10 years of experience in healthcare safety/quality improvement, regulatory compliance, and leadership.
• Master’s Degree in Nursing, Analytics, or Healthcare-related field, required.
• Experience with nursing, pharmacy, hospital, and clinical operations, required.
• Experience managing drug diversion prevention programs, required.
• Experience with complex drug diversion investigations, required.
• Working knowledge of relevant DEA, Board of Pharmacy, FDA, Joint Commission, CMS regulations, required.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to develop positive relationships with key stakeholders, strong conflict management skills.
• Ability to work with data and draw inferences from multiple sources and types of information.
• Ability to analyze complex issues, and develop relevant and realistic improvement plans/recommendations.
• Experience planning and managing complex projects.
• Demonstrated excellence in facilitation and teaching.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills required.
• Microsoft Office Suite competence: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Must thrive working in fast-paced, innovative environment while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful, and efficient

Responsibilities

• Builds investigation plans for complex diversion investigations carried out across the Dartmouth Health system.
• Provides oversight and guidance for complex diversion investigations undertaken across the Dartmouth Health system.
• Leads investigations into suspected drug diversion at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in collaboration with local leaders, drug diversion specialists, and Drug Diversion Rapid Response Team.
• Leads cause analysis following confirmed or suspected diversion events to gain insight into potential opportunities for system improvement and diversion risk mitigation at Dartmouth Health locations.
• Provides diversion prevention coaching and consulting to Senior Leaders (Executives), Service Line Leaders/Divisions, and Drug Diversion Specialists.
• Develops and maintains relationships with system member diversion prevention colleagues through collaboration and communication.
• Builds and engages in comprehensive surveillance and auditing activities to detect drug diversion, in collaboration with Pharmacy, Nursing and Anesthesia
• Maintains the structure and processes of a comprehensive Drug Diversion Prevention Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
• Co-chairs Dartmouth-Hitchcock Controlled Substance Diversion Prevention Program Steering Committee with member location(s) Pharmacy department leader
• Maintains Dartmouth-Hitchcock drug diversion prevention, detection, and response policies/procedures
• Provides leadership in multidisciplinary drug diversion prevention education activities
• Collaborates with all departments/disciplines on controlled substance and drug diversion-related issues, serving as a diversion prevention resource and providing best practice recommendations for controlled substance management
• Ensures appropriate collection and analysis to drug diversion-related data, and maintains a database containing all data collected that may relate to drug diversion
• Ensures that internal and external regulatory reporting occurs, as required, following a confirmed diversion event, in collaboration with Office of General Counsel
• Presents institutional drug diversion reports to Senior Leaders and Board of Trustees as requested
• Serves as a diversion prevention resource across all Dartmouth Health member locations
• Performs other duties as required or assigned

Skills

10 years of experience in healthcare安全

Education

Master’s Degree in Nursing, Analytics, or Healthcare-related field

Job description

Dartmouth Health in Lebanon, NH is seeking a Senior Drug Diversion Specialist to serve as the primary liaison to Dartmouth-Hitchcock. You will lead complex diversion investigations, develop prevention strategies, and mentor leaders in change management, Just Culture, and data-driven problem solving.

The role emphasizes collaboration across Pharmacy, Nursing, and Hospital operations, with responsibilities including program leadership, policy maintenance, and education to reduce diversion risk