Nursing Director Outcomes/Practice

About the role

The Director of Nursing Outcomes, Practice & Systems provides executive leadership for nursing quality, patient safety, professional practice, and performance improvement.

Responsibilities

• Establishes and executes the nursing quality strategy, advances high-reliability behaviors, ensures regulatory and accreditation readiness, and leads the performance system for nursing-sensitive indicators using evidence-based practice, analytics, and improvement methodologies.
• Serves as the primary nursing liaison to the Jeffords Institute for Quality, partnering to align measurement, regulatory, and improvement strategies that impact nursing practice.
• Sets direction for nursing practice, policy management, and care delivery optimization related to quality/safety; partners with the CNIO and informatics teams to enhance clinical documentation, decision support, workflow usability, and technology adoption;
• Led nursing’s engagement in Clinical Value Analysis for products and equipment that affect safety, quality, and efficiency.
• Ensures equity in outcomes and co-designs improvements with patients, families, frontline nurses, and interdisciplinary partners.
• Oversees, supports and develops the inpatient nurse clinicians, nursing informaticists & nursing program/project managers and assures their work is in alignment with departmental and organizational goals.
• In collaboration with the Nursing Director team, this role co-leads and contributes to enterprise communication and relationship-building; medical staff and interdisciplinary collaboration; leadership and change initiatives; professionalism and community engagement; financial and operational stewardship; staffing productivity and labor management; and human resources management.
• Translates strategic priorities into operational objectives, budgets, staffing models, and resource plans—to ensure consistency and spread across nursing.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated commitment to life-long learning required.
• Masters in Nursing required, DPN/PhD in Nursing preferred.
• Current RN licensure, compact licensure or APRN recognized by the State of Vermont is required.
• Certification in related nursing specialty preferred.
• Five years nursing leadership experience.
• Experience in integrated health systems in an academic medical center preferred.
• Experience at the director level in Healthcare setting within Nursing preferred.