Director Magnet Designation

About the role

Hackensack Meridian Health nurses care for patients and their families at every stage of life, 24 hours a day, at bedsides in 9 community hospitals, 4 academic medical centers, a behavioral health hospital, 2 children's hospitals, 2 rehabilitation hospitals, medical offices, and care facilities across the state.

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

Success Profile

• Collaborative
• Courageous
• Compassionate
• Creative
• Connected

Job Description

Requisition # 2026-183067
Shift Day
Status Full Time with Benefits

Overview

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better.
At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

Responsibilities

A day in the life of a Director of Magnet Designation at Hackensack Meridian Health includes:

• Coordinates activities for designation across the network developing a vision, strategy, and plans for network wide designation, re-designation, and sustainability.
• Oversee the coordination, education, and training of all Magnet Program Directors.
• Maintains oversight and facilitates the preparation and submission of documentation, policies, research and informational sessions relative to maintaining ANCC Magnet status encompassing multiple sites.
• Identifies, develops and maintains comprehensive data management systems that support information submission to the Magnet Program Office and enables accurate tracking of key performance indicators.
• Acts as the liaison with the American Nurses Association, the American Nurses Credentialing Center and other agencies, as needed.
• Reports and updates Regulatory and Accreditation Committee ensuring organizational standards compliance with regulating agencies.
• Covers readiness assessment and leads the creation of gap analysis plan to reach Magnet or Pathway to excellence designation.
• Acts as a subject matter expert and resource to nursing leadership at every entity related to the Magnet Model and interpretation of Magnet standards.
• Ledges and develops activities required to maintain ANCC Magnet status by continuously searching for ways to improve patient outcomes using evidence-based practice and shared governance tenets.
• Facilitates shared governance/shared decision making structures across multiple sites including Network Nursing Congress to guide and support the Professional Practice Model.
• Oversees collection and submission of key nursing sensitive outcome indicators and develops quarterly and annual reporting for submission to executive leadership and the ANCC Magnet Program Office.
• Contributes actively to the development of a culture of patient safety, quality, nursing research and innovation.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Nursing.
• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing.
• Minimum of 8 years nursing experience.
• Experience as Magnet Program Director.
• Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office suite.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred

• More than 1 year experience in clinical education.

Licenses and Certifications Required

• Current, unrestricted New Jersey State licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of New Jersey.
• Specialty certification in nursing.

Benefits

• workplace excellence
• collaborative work environment
• work-life balance
• compassionate nursing culture
• mentoring programs
• substantial tuition reimbursement