Director of Clinical Education

About the role

Provides leadership, accountability and responsibility for Clinical Development and Nursing Evidence-based practice for MercyOne Medical Center, MercyOne West Des Moines, Centerville and Newton.

Responsibilities

• Oversees programs and processes related to nursing practice and education, including, but not limited to, nursing protocols and procedures, nursing competency assessment, nursing orientation, nurse residency program, patient care associate cohort, and nursing education needs assessment.
• Operational responsibilities include budgeting, strategic planning, patient care management and integration and achieve organizational goals.
• Acts as a role model and change agent by initiating and accepting changes for improved patient care and cost reductions.
• Maintains active communication and collaborates with senior leadership, physicians, leaders, and staff to meet specialty, departmental and organizational goals.

Requirements

• Possession of a current or compact state license as a registered nurse issued/defined by the State of Iowa.
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing required.
• Nursing Professional Development Certification (NPD-BC™) or Certification for Nurse Educators (CNE) certification required within 6 months in this role.
• BLS and ACLS certification required.
• Proof of completion of Iowa’s Mandatory reporter abuse training specific to population served with three (3) months of hire.
• 1 Year Nursing Education Leadership Experience Required.
• 3 years nursing education experience required.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in nursing education or leadership required.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, presentation skills, advanced analytical skills, be well organized and maintain a highly professional manner and appearance.
• Strong interpersonal, consultative and relationship building skills in order to initiate and develop productive collaborative partnership with all levels of leadership across the organization.
• Ability to effectively influence results, garner support and tactfully manage complex relationships within and across the organization.
• Extremely high level of diplomacy and tact are required.
• Ability to read the subtle nuances of situation and react/plan accordingly.
• Must be comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.
• Must possess a personal presence that is characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity, and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the philosophy, mission, vision, goals, and values of Trinity Health.

Skills

• Data-driven approach for project prioritization and strategies.
• Leadership, collaboration, critical thinking, and teamwork.
• Change leadership strategies.
• Incorporates change leadership strategies through building a compelling vision, understanding the perspectives of the stakeholders, identification for tactics to elicit commitment and address resistance.
• Utilizes data to identify opportunities for clinical variation, understands graphical representations of data, and applies project-oriented expertise in identifying leading and lagging metrics for implementation effectiveness, and data plans.
• Advocates for clinical and business innovations that address needs, policy changes, workforce management, education which align with the organizational strategy and national priorities.
• Knowledgeable and current in nursing standards of treatment. Integrates new practice standards with education and written standards.
• Mentors and coaches leadership and staff through change.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement, problem solving skills and implementation of performance improvement.
• Provides overall leadership annually in developing department goals consistent with the organization’s strategic plans.
• Aligns nursing education across the market.
• Determine strategy to standardize clinical performance across the market based on Ana standards.
• Implement new care models utilizing digital technology.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

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Schedule

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