Registered Nurse (RN) - Med Surg
Children's Medical Center Dallas
Dallas, TX

Job Title & Specialty Area: Nursing Innovation Specialist

Department: Nursing Administration

Location: This is a system wide position, working from Dallas and Plano as needed.

Job Type: On-Site with flexibility to work remotely some days

Why Children’s Health?
At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal. Through our cutting-edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well-being. Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community. Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.

Summary:
The Nursing Innovation Specialist provides strategic and operational leadership cultivating networks and partnerships across the system to foster nurse empowerment in nursing innovation. Responsible for providing leadership, assistance, and support in the development, implementation, evaluation, enhancement, and maintenance of a comprehensive pediatric nursing innovation program. Engages and collaborates with the department of nursing to generate new nursing knowledge through innovation. This position will be responsible for developing the nursing innovation program, aligning with the nursing research, innovation, and evidence-based practice program within Nursing Excellence. Works closely with the Nursing Excellence leadership to organize, execute, and/or facilitate nursing innovation and excellence across the health system in alignment with the strategic plan and to promote a vision for translational innovation in healthcare.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Nursing Excellence leadership to develop infrastructure to support innovation among clinical nurses at the enterprise level.
• Contributes to the enhancement, revision, and maintenance of a comprehensive, vital, and futuristic pediatric nursing innovation program by providing leadership, creative and collaborative networking strategies, and design thinking to nursing practice.
• Cultivates and encourages a culture of inquiry by questioning or evaluating current practice to improve nursing practice, care delivery models, and/or patient outcomes through innovation.
• Demonstrates experience and ability to manage projects by conducting and facilitating evidence-based practice, quality/ process improvement, innovation, and dissemination of projects (publications, conferences).
• Acts as a change agent and align nursing and clinical teams on new ideas/ways of working to advance nursing practice.
• Leads the design and implementation of innovative nursing care delivery systems in conjunction with colleagues throughout the nursing service. This includes innovation sites and care delivery systems for new sites.
• Provides leadership in the development, oversight and implementation of innovative new products and services.
• Serves as a consultant to nurses and other staff within Nursing Services for nursing innovation project design, approval processes, data collection and analysis, and dissemination.
• Enables, encourages, and mentors nursing and other staff to address nursing practice, patient satisfaction and/or patient care problems through application of nursing innovation.
• Demonstrates and facilitates the development of nursing innovation projects in pediatric nursing by applying outcomes to practice and commitment to promotion exemplary patient and family centered care and an interactive, dynamic multidisciplinary learning climate.
• Utilizes translational research modalities to bridge the gap between research, innovation, and practice.
• Oversees nursing innovation educational/fellowship opportunities and collaboratives for the organization.
• Collaborates with clinical nurse specialists and nursing leaders to review current practice and literature to enhance nursing staff's knowledge, competencies, and confidence to utilize nursing innovation for current evaluation of nursing practice and future planning.
• Promotes and maintains internal collaborative partnerships between Nursing Services, information technology, informatics, clinical operations, finance, legal, compliance, and other departments as necessary to identify new product opportunities and appropriate operations support.
• Establish and execute external partnerships/ affiliations with Schools of Nursing and other academic units and vendors/ industry partners.
• Develops and measures programmatic outcomes to derive insights and plans to improve and scale innovations.
• Participates in the quarterly and annual evaluation plan including outcomes achieved the prior year (includes impact on practice, publication productivity, national presentations, grants obtained, etc.) to determine impact factors.
• Promotes the image of pediatric nursing at Children’s Health locally, nationally and internationally.
• Mentor DNP and PhD student projects as appropriate.

This is a full-time position.

How You’ll Be Successful:

WORK EXPERIENCE

• At least 5 years clinical experience or clinical teaching experience required
• At least 2 years clinical data analytics, nursing informatics, or nursing innovation experience required
• At least 3 years experience publishing and/or presenting innovation, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, process improvement and/or research results in high-impact peer reviewed journals and national conferences preferred

EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing required
• Master of Science in Nursing or Healthcare innovation or Informatics or Masters in Healthcare Administration (or equivalent degree) required
• Doctor of Nursing Practice or PhD required within 4 years of job acceptance
• Nursing innovation and/or applicable nursing informatics/technology-based fellowship or comprehensive training preferred

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Current license to practice professional nursing in the State of Texas (or current valid Compact RN license) Upon Hire required
• American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) recognized certification within 1 year after hire required

A Place Where You Belong

We put our people first. We welcome, value, and respect the beliefs, identities and experiences of our patients and colleagues. We are committed to delivering culturally effective care, creating meaningful partnerships in the communities we serve, and equipping and developing our team members to make Children’s Health a place where everyone can contribute.

 Holistic Benefits – How We’ll Care for You:

· Employee portion of medical plan premiums are covered after 3 years.

· 4%-10% employee savings plan match based on tenure

· Paid Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)

· Caregiver Leave

· Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement 

As an equal opportunity employer, Children's Health does not discriminate against employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, veteran or military status, disability, or genetic information or any other Federal or State legally-protected status or class. This applies to all aspects of the employer-employee relationship including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, promotion, transfer pay, training, discipline, workforce adjustments, termination, employee benefits, and any other employment-related activity.