Job Description:

The Nurse Excellence Director leads and oversees initiatives to drive nursing excellence. The Director ensures the integration of nursing professional standards into the organizational infrastructure, reflecting the five components of the ANCC Magnet® Program: Transformational Leadership, Structural Empowerment, Exemplary Professional Practice, New Knowledge Innovations, and Improvements. Additionally, the Nurse Excellence Director may support Pathway to Excellence® Designation and promote excellence in patient care services through improving empirical outcomes, mentoring nurses, supporting professional development, and may seek grants and funding. This Director also advances nursing services toward national recognition for quality outcomes, nursing, and patient satisfaction.

Along with offering a chance to work in a stable, strong, mission-based environment, this role provides the opportunity to experience the Mountain West’s diverse culture and incredible landscapes. You’ll be able to explore abundant outdoor recreational opportunities, including skiing, hiking, and fishing, as well as stunning national parks and forests, all within hours of where you’ll call home. Becoming a part of the Intermountain team means gaining a family and finding a place to plant your roots. 

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind, and spiritual well-being. To that end, we’ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling, and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning. 

With this position, you are eligible to participate in an annual pay-for-performance opportunity (“AP4P”). This plan enables Intermountain Health to provide leaders with an additional performance compensation opportunity. The AP4P opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary. Awards are paid out based on attainment of selected Intermountain Health Board-approved goals. 

To show our commitment to you and assist with your transition into our organization, we may offer a sign-on and/or a relocation bonus when applicable. 

Essential Functions

• Lead and Develop Nursing Talent: Mentors, coaches, and guides nurses in applying standards of excellence, fostering empowerment through shared decision-making and professional growth.
• Champion Magnet®/Pathway to Excellence® Standards: Serves as a subject matter expert, integrating program standards into practice and leading steering committees to sustain designation readiness.
• Advance Evidence-Based Practice and Research: Promotes a culture of inquiry by supporting research initiatives, evidence-based practice, and scholarly dissemination through publications and presentations.
• Drive Professional Development and Learning: Coordinates educational strategies and development programs that elevate clinical practice and align with strategic nursing goals.
• Secure and Manage Program Funding: Identifies and pursues grants, research opportunities, and funding sources to support innovation and nursing advancement.
• Innovate Care Delivery for Quality Outcomes: Designs and implements nursing care models that improve patient outcomes, leveraging data and collaboration with the Office of Patient Experience.
• Lead Governance and Strategic Alignment: Oversees Professional Governance Councils and contribute to strategic planning that aligns nursing priorities with organizational goals.
• Foster Interdisciplinary and Community Collaboration: Builds strong relationships across departments and with community partners to enhance shared leadership and visibility of nursing initiatives.

Skills

• Communication
• Interprofessional
• Magnet/Pathways Understanding & Knowledge
• Influencing Change
• Shared Governance Understanding
• Tech Proficiency
• Evidence-Based Practice
• Quality Improvement

Minimum Qualifications

• Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of practice.
• Master's degree from an accredited university. Either the bachelor’s or master’s degree must be in nursing (degree verification required).
• Demonstrated clinical nursing experience in an acute care setting.
• Demonstrated management experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to work both independently and as an effective team member.
• Proficiency using word processing, spreadsheet, database, internet, e-mail, and scheduling applications.
• Experience interacting in a professional manner with administration, medical staff, and hospital personnel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record in management role.
• Experience facilitating organizational Magnet/Pathways initiatives.
• Knowledge of regulatory processes.
• Statistical and data management skills.
• Board certification in a nursing specialty.

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Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.

• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location:

Saint Joseph Hospital

Work City:

Denver

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$50.97 - $78.69

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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