What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Program Manager - Conway Pathway Program position at Children's National Medical Center?
The RN Program Manager, will plan, implement, manage, and evaluate activities for the Conway Nursing Pathway Program at Children's National Medical Center according to national standards and administrative policies. Assist the Director in developing, implementing, and evaluating services, programs, policies, procedures, and performance standards to achieve a human-centered approach to accomplish the nursing transition to practice program goals.
Community Outreach: Collaborate with academic institutions, community affairs, workforce development to schedule community events and ensure promotional items are available.
Project Management: Create innovative project plans with milestones, deliverables, and accountability assignments for recruiting and retaining Conway Nursing Pathfinders
Program Evaluation & Enhancement: Provide oversight for clinical and learning experience and develop evaluation tools with the Director to measure program outcomes and monitor monthly performance reports and budget variances, resolving discrepancies.
Grants Management: Assist in preparing reports and expense statements for director approval and monitor special purpose funds performance reports .
Minimum Education
Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (Required)
Master's Degree in nursing or healthcare program (Preferred)
Minimum Work Experience
5 years minimum work experience, demonstrating progressive work-related responsibility and growth (Required)
Required Skills/Knowledge
Strong interpersonal, operations, and program management skills.
Excellent written and oral communications skills.
Comfortable challenging organizational norms and accepted thinking to improve effectiveness.
Possesses a working knowledge of nursing workforce trends and technologies.
Required Licenses and Certifications
Registered Nurse Licensed to practice in District of Columbia Upon Hire (Required)
Basic Life Support for Healthcare Provider (BLS) Upon Hire (Required)
Functional Accountabilities
Program Operations and Outcomes
- Assess and prioritize initiatives using qualitative and quantitative data sources that are representative of the nursing workforce
- Develop program strategy in alignment with organizational strategy, division/departmental strategy and short/long-term goals.
- Leverage data driven strategy for monitoring, evaluating, and reporting initiatives
- Develop program budget, and monitor and adjust plan as resource requirements change
- Advocate for material, financial, and human resources to ensure program sustainability
Innovation, Research and Quality Improvement
- Utilize data to identify opportunities, implement change and improve outcomes
- Support research efforts to discover new knowledge and implement evidence-based improvement initiatives
- Ensure that initiatives are guided by the best available science and evidence
- Leverage modern technologies to support efficiency
- Innovate through internal and external collaborations to develop, design, and implement new ideas/ solutions to advance strategies
- Disseminate new knowledge from innovation, research, and quality improvement outcomes at local, state, and national conferences and through scholarly publication
Professionalism
- Escalate any concerns or issues to Nursing Director and seek guidance as appropriate
- Demonstrates organizational cores values in all interactions
Professional Development
- Actively engages in professional development through conference and seminar attendance
- Seeks certification if not currently certified in preferred areas
- Maintain working knowledge of specialty areas and continuously seek opportunities for continuous learning
- Recruit, train/orient, and retain staff through the program
Organizational Accountabilities
Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)
Organizational Commitment/Identification
- Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met
Teamwork/Communication
- Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior
- Partner with all team members to achieve goals
- Receptive to others' ideas and opinions
Performance Improvement/Problem-solving
- Contribute to a positive work environment
- Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change
- Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes
- Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment
Cost Management/Financial Responsibility
- Use resources efficiently
- Search for less costly ways of doing things
Safety
- Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance
- Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation
- Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation
- Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication
- Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers
- Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance
