Magnet Nursing Fellow

Job Description:

The Magnet Nursing Fellowship - Quality is a one-year OR eighteen-month opportunity working with the Chief Nursing Executive and senior nursing leaders and will be directly matrixed to the Chief Quality & Patient Safety Officer and the quality and regulatory leaders of Essentia Health. The fellow will gain broad exposure to the organization and develop a better understanding of operations, finances, physician services and patient care services in all locations of care across the continuum while working directly on quality-focused in-depth projects. The Magnet Nurse Fellow - Quality will follow a See One, Do One and Lead One structure. See One Phase: The fellow will spend the first three months, approximately, rotating through each facility and nursing practice area throughout the assigned market. Each rotational experience will be hosted by the local nursing leader and administrative teams. The experiences, lasting anywhere from 1-5 days, will give the fellow the opportunity to meet leaders and gain an understanding and appreciation for the operations. Additionally, as part of the See One phase, the fellow will be expected to explore quality outcomes, quality initiatives and connections/linkages to system-oriented quality and Magnet Nursing. At the end of the See One Phase, the fellow will propose/identify a system-oriented, Magnet Nursing Quality focus. This focus will be the basis of work for the remainder of the fellowship. Do One Phase: Following the See One Phase, the fellow will progress to the Do One Phase where the fellow will spend up to 6-9 months applying quality skills, tools, processes and workflows oriented towards improving outcomes linked to the identified and approved focus. The fellow will be immersed in the focused area/s and will be connected to patient care and service departments, practice areas and colleagues to ensure teamwork and collaboration is enabled. Lead One Phase:In the final phase of the program, Lead One, the fellow will be matched with a system quality initiative and/or nursing sensitive quality indicator/s where he/she will be given the leadership role and accountability for the outcome improvements at a system level. This gives the fellow opportunity to leverage prior learning, and increase autonomy and responsibility according to interest and organizational quality priorities. A fellow will be able to adapt the overall fellowship experience to meet unique interests and career aspirations as the program and personal/professional learning advances. Time will be reserved for the fellow to participate in Magnet Nursing and Quality-oriented strategic projects, professional development opportunities, formal trainings and senior leadership meetings throughout the fellowship. Leadership: The Magnet Nursing Fellowship Program is overseen by the Chief Nursing Executive and the Chief Quality & Patient Safety Officer for Essentia Health in addition to the Chief Nursing Officers within the East and West Markets. Nursing Professional Development will oversee operations of the program and will ensure the fellow receives orientation to the organization and facilities/locations of care, onboarding as needed, and support and guidance as mentors throughout the fellowship experience. Quality leaders will also be involved in mentorship opportunities and oversight and support in quality immersion experiences as available. Key Responsibilities: • Demonstrates ability to implement change for positive quality outcomes• Documents service standards, standard work and workflows in appropriate formats• Creates and provides training and educational tools for use throughout organization• Utilizes effective communication strategies, plans and skills to guide staff/teams towards improved quality outcomes• Gathers/Analyzes and presents data to guide future quality outcomes and improvements• Gathers data and gains understanding of department/facility/team functions that contribute to successful quality outcomes and/or inhibits abilities to achieve high quality outcomes • Used benchmarking tools, internal and external, to compare activities of departments/facilities and teams to ideal evidence-base standards • Use analyses to inform targets, performance measures, tactics and designs to achieve high quality outcomes• Performs audits to ensure standards developed are followed consistently to achieve high quality outcomes• Provides data analyses for various projects as assigned• Identifies and initiates implementation of opportunities to improve quality outcomes • Identifies emerging and promising practices that facilitate achievement of high quality outcomes • Develops methods to disseminate internally emerging and promising practices throughout the system as applicable • Develops methods to sustain performance at benchmark comparators or above once achieved Work Experience: Direct patient care experience of at least 5 years preferred