Senior Director CNREP - Nurse Education

Overview

At Houston Methodist, the Sr Director Nursing Research, Education, and Practice position provides strategic direction and operations to advance patient care, education, research, and professional practice. The role aims to create a system nursing research team to support nurses across the system. The Sr Director CNREP position focuses on improving system oversight of opportunities to utilize innovation, evidence-based practice, and efficiencies in onboarding and training of nursing staff.

This position has system accountability and direct responsibility for the professional practice team at Houston Methodist Hospital, coordinating outreach to schools of nursing and ancillary colleges to build a pipeline for the nursing workforce and ease transition to practice. The Sr Director CNREP drives a culture of continuous learning through needs assessment, development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of educational programs that advance leadership and science of nursing for professional and nonprofessional staff and patients.

The Sr Director leads evidence-based practice initiatives and coordinates nursing research protocols, studies, and outcome dissemination. The Sr Director reports to a VP level or above and directs work with a significant organizational impact, leading or directing key programs with a large scope (system-wide, TMC, or all community hospitals). The role sets strategic vision and administration and manages multiple budgets (operational and capital), with responsibility for activities impacting quality, productivity, and efficiency.

It also ensures employee engagement, adequate staffing, budget development and compliance, and the development and implementation of policies to ensure a safe and effective work environment. The Sr Director may serve in lieu of an entity director for the assigned functional area(s) and may have direct reports at the director level.

PATIENT AGE GROUP(S) AND POPULATION(S) SERVED
Refer to departmental "Scope of Service" and "Provision of Care" plans for description of primary age groups and populations served by this job for the respective HM entity.

HOUSTON METHODIST EXPERIENCE EXPECTATIONS

• Provide personalized care and service by consistently demonstrating our I CARE values:
  • INTEGRITY:
    We are honest and ethical in all we say and do.
  • COMPASSION:
    We embrace the whole person including emotional, ethical, physical, and spiritual needs.
  • ACCOUNTABILITY:
    We hold ourselves accountable for all our actions.
  • RESPECT:
    We treat every individual as a person of worth, dignity, and value.
  • EXCELLENCE:
    We strive to be the best at what we do and a model for others to emulate.
• Practices the Caring and Serving Model
• Delivers personalized service using HM Service Standards
• Provides for exceptional patient/customer experiences by following our Standards of Practice of always using Positive Language (AIDET, Managing Up, Key Words)
• Intentionally collaborates with other healthcare professionals involved in patients/customers or employees' experiential journeys to ensure strong communication, ease of access to information, and a seamless experience
• Involves patients (customers) in shift/handoff reports by enabling their participation in their plan of care as applicable to the given job
• Actively supports the organization's vision, fulfills the mission and abides by the I CARE values

• Sets the strategic vision and administration and is responsible for multiple budgets (operational and capital) and/or directs work that has significant financial implications including high-level oversight of the activities within the assigned functional area(s), ensuring quality, productivity, functional excellence, and efficiency to accomplish strategic and operational objectives.
• Directs, develops, and implements strategic and operational/high-level projects and processes through independent/highly autonomous work or through the facilitation of work teams to enable the effective and efficient completion of objectives.
• Oversees and ensures development for staff to meet overall objectives in terms of quality, service, and cost effectiveness. Provides timely guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas needed to accomplish a task or solve a problem. Provides a functional area oversight guidance and directs management responsibilities of selection, scheduling, supervision, retention, and evaluation of employees.
• Reviews metrics for the function on a holistic basis. Meets or exceeds threshold goal for department turnover and/or system metrics on employee engagement indicators.
• Provides leadership and communication to maintain a competent and engaged employee group by conducting function leadership meetings to review policies and procedures and operational matters, rounding on all direct reports, completing performance appraisals, conducting new hire feedback sessions, coaching/corrective counseling, and providing…