Program Nurse Manager - Care Collaborative

Position Title

Program Nurse Manager - Care Collaborative

Days - Full Time

Remote

Position Summary / Career Interest:
MUST BE LOCAL TO KANSAS


70% travel across the state of Kansas

The Program Nurse Manager will provide statewide clinical leadership, support, training, and oversight for a network of over 90 healthcare organizations in over 70 counties. This role will ensure the consistent implementation of evidence-based clinical protocols and order sets while supporting quality improvement initiatives, data-driven decision-making, and the adoption of best practices. The Program Nurse Manager will serve as the primary clinical resource for participating organizations, offering consultation, training, and performance feedback to improve patient outcomes and care delivery. Additionally, the Program Nurse Manager will ensure consistency, accuracy, and clinical integrity of all program-related materials and processes.


The Nurse Manager's primary responsibility will be to lead, plan, execute, and evaluate the OB simulation training that advances maternal and neonatal safety, interdisciplinary team performance, and regulatory readiness. The Nurse Manager will work closely with subject matter experts, nurse managers, emergency departments, and emergency management teams.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Establishes, implements, and administers various program goals, objectives, policies, and procedures for clinical areas
• Develops and delivers training modules, educational resources, and clinical guidelines for participating organizations. Provides information to participating hospitals on how to formulate changes in policies, procedures, and/or processes.
• Interacts with medical and nursing staff, managers, supervisors, and other professional rural hospital staff to provide training, resource information and identify new opportunities to improve services and reduce cost.
• Collects data from participating hospitals and maintains records using specific software to meet individual hospital needs.
• Trains rural hospitals on various clinical practices: infection prevention, OB simulation, STEMI, stroke, sepsis, and diabetes.
• Leads the lifecycle of OB simulation initiatives using structured project management methods.
• Presents verbal and/or written information and responds to sensitive inquiries.
• Builds and maintain a master simulation roadmap aligned with organizational goals (maternal morbidity/mortality reduction, readiness metrics, onboarding, competency validation.
• Tracks project KPIs, outcomes, and ROI; deliver regular executive summaries and dashboards.
• Works with rural hospitals to apply effective policies and procedures that ensure compliance with local, county, state, and federal regulatory and/or accrediting agencies.
• Creates and interprets various charts and graphs to present to rural hospitals in an understandable format.
• Travels to participating health organizations to facilitate various training sessions. Organizes and disseminates information in a timely fashion and assists rural hospitals in the interpretation of data and best practice information.
• Provides additional training, support, and follow-up to participating hospitals.
• Builds and maintains strong collaborative relationships with external partners, local leadership teams, and healthcare stakeholders.
• Develops reports and statistical data for the rural hospitals', medical staff committees, administration, and other committees as needed.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor Degree Nursing

Preferred Education and Experience

• Master Degree Nursing

Required Licensure and Certification

• Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Single State - State Board of Nursing Licensed in State of Kansas
• Valid driver's license with acceptable driving record

Preferred Language Skills

• English -

Knowledge Requirements

• Knowledge of general nursing theory and practice.
• Ability to travel to participating sites for training purposes and follow-up.

Time Type:
Full time

Job Requisition ID:
R-52021

Important information for you to know as you apply:

• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status. See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
  
• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link View email address on click.appcast.io.
  
• Employment with the health system is contingent upon, among other things, agreeing to the health-system-dispute-resolution-program.pdf and signing the agreement to the DRP.
  

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