Clinical Admin Director Nursing - Vanderbilt LifeFlight

JOB SUMMARY:

Vanderbilt University Medical Center Executive Search Team is conducting a national search for a Nursing Administrative Director, Vanderbilt LifeFlight. This is an executive level role and requires an clinical experience in Air and or Ground transfer and an active Registered Nurse license. The Nursing Administrative Director will report directly to the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) of Vanderbilt University Hospital .

The Administrative Director is responsible for the overall operation and direction of patient care for Vanderbilt LifeFlight as well as leading and mentoring staff to ensure the highest levels of patient safety and care are always met. This Nursing Administrative Director will have two (2) direct reports (Directors) with overall leadership responsibility for ~250 fulltime employees.

Vanderbilt LifeFlight has been a world-class leader in the area of critical care air transport since 1984 and has set the pace in providing innovative air medical transport services. Vanderbilt LifeFlight has 8 air medical bases across the Middle Tennessee Region. The comprehensive Medical Transport program also provides Critical Care Ground, Ground, and Event Medicine services for the Vanderbilt University Medical Center System.

Vanderbilt LifeFlight Medical Transport Team Mission:

• Meaningfully shortening the time of delivery of definitive care to patients with time-sensitive medical conditions.
• Providing necessary specialized medical expertise and specialty staff to patients before and/or during transport.
• Providing necessary equipment including High Flow Nasal Cannula, IABP, Nitric, ECMO, blood products to patients before and/or during transport.
• Providing transport to patients inaccessible by other means of transport or ground transport time impeded by road conditions/traffic patterns.
• Air medical transport may serve as a resource during multi-casualty incidents or disasters when patient influx overwhelms local resources.
• Resource for Medical Management at events in Nashville and surrounding communities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Clinical Experience in Air and or Ground transfer
• Strong skills developing community relationships and outreach programs
• Knowledge of regulatory standards, clinical care requirements and competencies, safety standards and resources in support of community based patient transport
• Ability to successfully lead a professionally diverse workforce
• Together with senior medical and administrative staff, participate in the establishment of the mission, strategic plan, budgets, resource allocation, operational plans, and policies for the Hospital and Vanderbilt Clinic.
• Ensure the most effective operations of the department through program development, process improvement and coordination/integration of processes with other departments.
• Responsible to the Chief Nursing Officer for the integration of nursing practice across the Clinical Enterprise.
• Assure successful implementation of clinical programs through systems and process design by integrating the design of the clinical programs with the needs of the community and other target populations.
• Develop budget, policies, and strategies that optimize the outcomes of clinical programs by improving efficiency and effectiveness in care delivery process.
• Assure external healthcare trends/demands are assessed. Create programs to meet the future market requirements.

DEPARTMENT SUMMARY

Vanderbilt LifeFlight's primary focus is on patient care, crew safety, utilization of a just culture and an exceptional outreach and community education program are among the factors that helped an independent panel of judges from the air medical industry recognize LifeFlight as program of the year in 2020. Since 1984 Vanderbilt LifeFlight has been the critical care transport service of VUMC. LifeFlight is an essential part of VUMC that combines a communications center, rotor, fixed, ground, critical care ground and event medicine that make it part of a true integrated health care delivery system.

LifeFlight is a leader in educational outreach and in 2019 the program made more than 4,000 outreach visits, traveled more than 52,000 miles returning some 3,500 spine boards and other equipment to EMS agencies and trained more than 3,900 providers with a variety of EMS related courses. LifeFlight has eight community-based helicopters in Gallatin, Tullahoma, Clarksville, Murfreesboro, Mt. Pleasant, Henry County, Humboldt, and Cookeville. LifeFlight also operates an airplane base at Nashville International Airport and 14 ALS ground ambulances, critical care ambulances, and communications and event medicine divisions.

LifeFlight is a leader in educational outreach and in 2019 the program made more than 4,000 outreach visits, traveled more than 52,000 miles returning some 3,500 spine boards and other equipment to EMS agencies and trained more than 3,900 providers with a variety of EMS related courses. LifeFlight has eight community-based helicopters in Gallatin, Tullahoma, Clarksville, Murfreesboro, Mt. Pleasant, Henry County, Humboldt, and Cookeville. LifeFlight also operates an airplane base at Nashville International Airport and 14 ALS ground ambulances, critical care ambulances, and communications and event medicine divisions.

From the first day of service on July 1, 1984, the mantra of 'safety is our number one product' has been at the cornerstone of every decision and practice the program has ever made

LifeFlight has achieved CAMTS accreditation in 2006 and used this as a springboard to bolster safety training and just culture.

In 2015, VUMC partnered with Air Methods to provide aviation, fuel, maintenance, aircraft, dispatch, billing and EMS licensure. VUMC provides all medical staffing, patient care and clinical services for Vanderbilt LifeFlight.

The ground division encompasses Wheelchair Van, ALS, BLS and Critical Care Ground Transport, Event Medicine, Emergency Communications and Transport Coordination.

"The ground program not only gives us critical care transport options when the aircraft can't fly due to weather, it rounds out a highly specialized 360-degree EMS system that allows us to meet the comprehensive needs of the community and the patients we have the privilege to serve," Wallace said.

Since 1984 Vanderbilt LifeFlight has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Trauma Systems (CAMTS)