Region Director Education Research Clinical Practice - CA

Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, is a 22-state network of more than 9,000 physicians, 63,000 employees, and 400 care centers, including hospitals, urgent and occupational care, imaging and surgery centers, home health, and primary care clinics. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care with special attention to the poor and underserved. For more information, please visit our website at www.dignityhealth.org. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

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The Regional Director for Nursing Education, Research, and Clinical Practice oversees strategic and daily operations of market education departments, collaborating with regional leaders to align nursing excellence and patient care quality. They lead the team in planning, directing, and evaluating all nursing, research, clinical, and general education for the region. This includes continuous development and learning activities for staff and patients, as well as the development of strategies for evidence-based practice and competency-based education. The director also serves as a liaison to affiliated nursing schools and represents the region on advisory boards. 

Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for researching, designing, delivering, and evaluating high-quality educational programs for the region’s staff and patients.
2. This position organizes, leads, and partners with leadership across the region towards professional development, investigation of best practices, oversight of formal and informal education programs.
3. Develops and deploys a needs assessment to determine gaps in Nursing skills, care delivery, and critical thinking; collaborates with market nursing leaders to develop and implement the most effective educational systems to minimize gaps;
4. Utilizes quality improvement and risk management data, innovations in clinical care delivery and technology, regulatory requirements, organizational performance goals, as well as staff and management feedback when building the educational needs assessment.
5. Direct nursing orientation and staff development to validate and enhance the competence of clinical staff.
6. Support implementation and utilization of clinical nursing research.
7. Incorporate system and institutional values, goals, and objectives into various educational programs presented to staff in alignment with the system dashboard.
8. Direct the development and implementation of continuing education programs in Nursing.
9. Educate and market the roles and responsibilities of nursing to a variety of audiences in the lay and professional community.
10. Evaluate program outcomes and make modifications as needed.
11. Be responsible for the total annual budget for nursing education services.
12. Direct the planning and implementation of education programs that will validate and enhance professional and ancillary competence.
13. Organize nurse educators to meet the educational needs of the nursing staff using the nursing department organizational plan and current developments in the institution and System, and chair the facility Nurse Educator Council.
14. Collaborate with nursing leadership, nursing staff and other disciplines to organize nursing education, quality improvement, and research programs.
15. Promote the use by colleges and universities of the facilities for clinical education and foster good relationships between the hospital and its educational institutions.
16. Network to establish the hospital as a pre-eminent source of professional education, healthcare information, and patient care delivery.
17. Evaluate program/student placement effectiveness on an ongoing basis.
18. Collaborates with the Nursing Executive Team in the achievement and maintenance of Magnet and Pathways to Excellence.
19. Oversee the Collaborative Learning Center in the Sacramento market to lead and manage training.

Qualifications:

Education:  Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and a Master's Degree in Nursing, MBA, MHA, or related field.  

Experience:  Ten (10) years of experience in Nursing with seven (7) years in a leadership role, having a significant business impact.  Two years (2) of recent experience with leading education programs.  

Preferred: DNP / PhD or doctoral degree in related field preferred.  Speciality certification as a healthcare executive preferred.