Full Time 40 Hours / Week / SIMULATION NURSE DIRECTOR/ Center for Nursing Excellence

The Nurse Director for Patricia A Chin Simulation Center:

1. Works in collaboration with the Associate Chief Nurse Officer (ACNO) and the administrative director of the Center for Nursing Excellence to translate the vision of the Department of Nursing (DON) by providing clinical, educational, and technical expertise in the development, implementation, and evaluation of nursing lead simulation programs.
2. Serves as an expert in simulation-based nursing education.
3. Is accountable for the operations of the Patricia A Chin Simulation (PAC SIM) scheduled to open in April 2024.
4. Collaborates with the STRATUS Education Director, the PAC SIM ND ensures the nursing simulation curricula aligns with the STRATUS curriculum review board and the DON annual goals.
5. Creates and implements the PAC SIM advisory board designed to develop and implement policies, procedures, and protocols aligned with the mission, goals, and objectives of the DON, supports strategic decision making, and is consistent with safe and effective operations.
6. Mentors and supports nursing faculty in their role at PAC SIM as simulation instructors and collaborates with professional development managers, nurse directors, and nurse educators to develop nursing simulation curricula and ensure that simulation educational goals are aligned with the Department of Nursing goals.
7. Will be responsible for innovative educational program design and curriculum development in partnership with the nursing educators. This includes creating programs utilizing and optimizing all simulation modalities, and matching learner needs and objectives with the appropriate simulation design and resources.
8. Maintains proficiency in existing and trends in the use of simulation and virtual reality in healthcare education, including theory, design, and implementation through networking, literature review, evaluating new methods and material, and professional development opportunities. This includes leading nursing research and dissemination of knowledge on relevant topic areas under the ND's scope.
9. Manages resources, including simulation and lab space, equipment, and personnel as well as supervising the annual budget plans including the forecasting of staff, equipment procurement, hardware and software replacement cycles, and human and other resources.
10. Provides an annual report of PAC SIM curricula, budget, and operational progression.
11. Responsible for collaborating with the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation (STRATUS) and nursing faculty and staff to ensure the highest quality simulation learning activities are integrated and implemented across the DON.
12. Serves on STRATUS assistant directors and leadership boards on behalf of DON.

At Brigham & Women's Hospital, we place great value on being a diverse and inclusive community. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion as we aim to reflect the diversity of the patients in our local community. We have a dedicated focus on equity. Thus, we believe in equal access to quality care, employment and advancement opportunities encompassing the full spectrum or human diversity: race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other forms of human presence and expression that make us better able to provide innovative and cutting-edge healthcare and research.

The Nursing Director is the leader of nursing with administrative, fiscal, and personnel accountability in the designated clinical area. The Nursing Director is responsible for creating and maintaining a therapeutic, healing, patient- and family- centered care environment. They participate in the development, refinement, communication and actualization of the BWH Department of Nursing (DON) vision, professional practice model, and relationship- based care delivery system. As the clinical and educational leader, they are responsible for establishing and maintaining the standards of nursing care and practice. The Nursing Director establishes and maintains true collaborative relationships with nursing staff, all subject areas and departments necessary to foster optimal patient outcomes and a professional practice environment. They partner with inter-professional and intra-professional leadership to set mutual goals that advance teamwork, interdisciplinary learning, just culture and the environment of care.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

I. Scholarship

• Creates an environment that supports and celebrates the professional growth of nursing practice.
• Actively supports the development of new nursing knowledge.
• Assures the use of and adherence to evidence-informed practice/standards for nursing care.
• Assures the practice environment supports reflective practice, e.g. through the use of narratives, and meets the needs of the relevant patient population.
• Professional development -self:
• Participates in self-performance appraisal process in ongoing manner.
• Seeks feedback from their professional colleagues.
• Shares strengths and areas to be developed with associate chief nurse and other colleagues as appropriate.
• Maintains vital clinical and managerial expertise through evidence-based practice.
• Participates in service- and department-wide developmental initiatives.
• Demonstrates commitment to life-long learning, e.g. through active participation in professional organizations.
• Conducts timely assessments of staff learning needs and assure programs/projects are in place to address them, including collaboration with the Professional Development Managers and the center for Nursing Excellence.
• Facilitates opportunities for staff to precept and teach others.

II. Authentic Leadership

• Serves as a clinical leader/coach /mentor to staff.
• Promotes staff participation in annual goal setting for their patient care area[s] and the Department of Nursing.
• Serves as a leader within the community of nursing, in accordance with the standards of nursing, including adherence to the ANA Code of Ethics.
• Assures appropriate personnel to meet the needs of the designated patient population.
• Designs and implements staffing patterns responsive to a dynamic care environment.
• Interviews, hires and supervises the orientation of new employees considering departmental, divisional, local and individual employee needs as basis of decisions.
• Provided ongoing formal and informal feedback regarding performance to staff members.
• Delegates authority and/or responsibility to others as appropriate while maintaining 24x7 accountability.
• Demonstrates consistent leadership in the maintenance of a fair and just culture.
• Assures staff participation in local-based decision making, Department of Nursing committees and initiatives.

III. Meaningful Recognition

• Provides formal and informal opportunities for staff to develop personal career goals and plans for their achievement.
• Provides ongoing formal and informal feedback regarding professional development to staff members.
• Encourages and recommends staff participation in unit-based decision making, Department of Nursing committees and organizational initiatives.

IV. Relationship Based Care

• Creates an environment that celebrates the professional growth of nursing practice.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining a caring, therapeutic, healing, patient- and family-centered care environment.
• Assures the presence of interventions to promote/assure a patient and family centered healing environment.
• Assures appropriate staffing plan to meet patient care needs on a continuous basis.
• Promotes an inclusive environment supportive of a patient- and family- centered care for a diverse community.

V. Outcome Focused Measures

• Serves as a leader of the clinical team, committed to excellence in nursing care and positive patient outcomes.
• Accountable for contributions to planning, implementing and evaluating the Department of Nursing Quality Plan, inclusive of critical indicators and patient satisfaction metrics.
• Actively participates in Brigham and Women's Hospital quality improvement programs, assuring clear articulation of the quality agenda by all staff in their patient care area(s) and/or specialty patient populations.
• Develops local-based quality agenda using performance improvement methodologies in collaboration with department and hospital-based quality leaders assuring an environment of continuous quality improvement, improved patient and systems' outcomes.
• Actively translates quality improvement findings into daily operations and strategy for the clinical area.
• Communicates and translates outcomes to staff and interdisciplinary colleagues, assuring staff's active participation in addressing quality improvement opportunities.
• Serves as a resource on clinical matters to assure an environment that promotes the desired patient outcomes.
• Assures all staff members are in compliance with regulatory standards. [For example, required licensure, orientation, ongoing education and annual competencies and screenings for ongoing employment].
• Provides leadership in developing quality-focused and cost-effective plans to deliver patient care.
• Assures the accurate attainment and review of data (complexity, volume, acuity, etc) in relation to staffing effectiveness.
• Develops and participates in creating systems to supervise the patient care environment, knowledgeable about and mindful of relevant regulatory compliance.

VI. True Collaboration

• Contributes to nursing as a department/discipline.
• Seeks and provides peer consultation and collaboration.
• Contributes to strategy, practice and policy decisions assuring all decisions made include perspectives of constituents to be represented.
• Assures self and staff participation in DON and interdepartmental committees.
• Represents service/DON as requested on various hospital task forces/committees.
• Demonstrates leadership in interdisciplinary collaboration, including participation in the development, implementation and evaluation of joint protocols for patient care.
• Collaborates in department-wide recruitment and retention strategies and initiatives.
• Collaborates with HR staff/leadership re: personnel management as appropriate.
• Seeks resources/serves as a liaison for staff from within the larger nursing and BWH communities.
• Manages patient flow ensuring collaboration with other patient care areas and/or Patient Access Department.
• Establishes and maintain open communication with managers of Support Services and other Department of Nursing resources as needed to assure clean and safe patient care environments.

VII. Fiscal Responsiveness

• Accountable to seek vital information, including active engagement of staff, to establish trends necessary to determine appropriate personnel and supply budgets.
• Manages and articulates any short or long-term variances.
• Collaborates with Associate Chief Nurse to be fiscally responsive, i.e. managing volume and acuity to hours per workload index (HPWI) as applicable.
• Develops schedules/ staffing plans that meet patient care needs on a continuous basis as applicable.
• Collaborates with nurse leaders and other departments to assure adequate supplies, operational, capital resources are available to staff caring for patients as applicable.

Qualifications:

1. Current nursing licensure in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
2. Master's in Nursing (MSN) (or) a Bachelor's in Nursing (BSN) with a master's degree in a related field, required.
3. DNP (or) PhD, preferred.
4. Current certification required. Certification to be maintained while employed in this position., Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) preferred.
5. Minimum of 3 years clinical nursing experience required. Clinical experience will be evaluated on an individual basis by the hiring associate chief nurse.
6. Confirmed experience in nursing simulation such as curricula design, teaching different modalities, and/or different fidelities required, and within an academic medical center preferred.
7. Previous leadership experience with demonstrated management ability is preferred.

Skills and Abilities Required:

• Demonstrate clinical competence in nursing practice.
• Possess analytical abilities necessary to organize, supervise and evaluate the work of others; to develop and to administer policies, procedures, budgets, and apply current concepts of nursing practice.
• Interpersonal skills sufficient to provide effective leadership to staff, and to interact with patients, visitors, physicians, other clinical teams and a variety of hospital departments.
• Management and leadership skills to be effective with multiple levels of staff.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Responsible for the supervision of RN's, LPN's, technical and support personnel.

Accountability: Reports to the Associate Chief Nurse, Center of Nursing Excellence.

Brigham and Women's Hospital is an Affirmative Action Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.