St. Joseph Health Bryan/College Station Navasota Caldwell Madisonville TX. Since 1936 St. Joseph Health has been caring for the communities in and surrounding the Brazos Valley. We have a Level III Trauma Center the first Joint Commission certified Primary Stroke Center and the first accredited Chest Pain Center in the Brazos Valley. St. Joseph Health is a leader in critical care and the largest provider of cardiovascular care in the region. As an integrated healthcare system St. Joseph Health includes a comprehensive network of over 100 employed providers including primary care physicians specialists and advanced practice clinicians. The network includes more than 30 ambulatory clinics featuring primary care Express Clinics and imaging and diagnostic services.
The Magnet Program Manager is accountable for coordinating activities required to attain and maintain ANCCMagnet recognition. This individual will design the Magnet recognition program strategy by working collaboratively withthe direct care providers nursing leaders and ancillary leadership colleagues across the organization. The Program Manager willresearch and promote excellence in nursing practice and serve as a catalyst for change to ensure St. Josephs Healthremains a national leader in nursing collaboration with other nursingleaders the Program Manager facilitates a supportive environment for professionalism excellence collegiality and continuousimprovement. The individual who holds this position exemplifies the St. Josephs mission vision and values and acts inaccordance with policies and procedures. The Magnet Program Manager will assist with special projects in nursingnursing staff development and other professional practice.
Nursing Practice/Nursing Leadership: Designs Magnet program strategy by working collaboratively with nursing physician operational and ancillary professional leadership to ensure goals ofMagnet designation are accomplished. Serves as a liaison to the College of Nursing and other entities to develop and maintain relationships to ensure theintegration of research and evidence based practice. Communicates and effectively translates the goals and expectations of Magnet standards of evidence to nursingleaders and direct care nurses. Provides leadership to the department of nursing in interpretation and compliance with ANCC Magnet Program standards and expectations and program planning implementation and evaluation efforts. Promotes excellence in nursing practice and research and provides a mechanism to disseminate best practices both internally and externally. Acts as a change agent in support of nursing staff professional practice. Provides leadership implementation of an ongoing Magnet readiness gap analysis and coordinates the action plan toaddress areas in need of improvement. Serves as a liaison to ensure quality initiatives have strategic alignment with the Magnet standards and expectations and benchmarks outcomes and acts as a gatekeeper to ensure Magnet standards are maintained and exceeded. Provides compelling and focused communication to leaders and staff across the nursing division and the organization to ensure understanding and compliance with Magnet standards and expectations. Provides Magnet related information sessions training and support for nursing and staff leadership. Coordinates the development of Magnet designation application documents. Prepares the Magnet documentation including collection and submission of key nursing sensitive outcome indicators. Serves as the liaison to the ANCC Magnet office and Magnet list serv. Coordinates submission of abstracts for Magnet conference Magnet prize awards and other conferences and awardopportunities as identified. Applies as appropriate EvidenceBased Practice (EBP) or Research evidence to standards of Nursing Care. Works collaboratively with nursing in the analysis and development of practice in accordance with the 5 modelcomponents of the Magnet Recognition Program at St. Joseph |
Communication Develops and maintains systems for disseminating information to nursing and other departments. Collaborates with the Professional Nursing Shared Governance (PNSG) Councils in the development of communicationfor the nursing staff. Serves as editor for the nursing newsletter and the site administrator for the Magnet website. Development and distribution of Annual Report for Nursing. Coordinates communication regarding Professional Nursing Shared Governance Councils. Assists Shared GovernanceCouncils and/or individuals in the communication of standards of care. Ensures that the Department of Nursing standards of care are communicated to nursing leadership and staff throughthe Communication Process. Collaborates with St Josephs Marketing department in proper use of Magnet designation as well as and Evaluation Assists with evaluation of the effectiveness of the annual evaluation process including evaluation tools and nursingpeer review. |
Shared Governance: Assumes responsibility and coordination of nursing shared governance. Acts as an advocate and expert resource for the Professional Nursing Shared Governance (PNSG) model in the healthsystem and actively promotes participation on the committees by serving as a mentor. Accountable for PNSG ByLaw review and ongoing revisions. Guides individual units in the development/strengthening of the unitbased shared governance councils. Works with PNSG Councils in the development and maintenance of their mission and goals. Reviews on an ongoingbasis their status in achievement of their goals. Reviews on an ongoing basis their status in achievement of their goals. |
Serves as a liaison to the PNSG Councils assisting the chair in planning organizing and following through on agendaitems.
Required Education and Experience:
Bachelors degree in Nursing (BSN)
Masters Preferred
Five (5) years of relevant experience in the discipline required.
Preferred experience in facilitating a successful ANCC Magnet application |
Preferred experience with Magnet documentation submission and site visit
Required Licensure and Certifications:
Registered Nurse: TX (RN:TX)
Required Experience:
Manager
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