1. Magee Resource Group has been exclusively retained by THE WINSHIP CANCER
INSTITUTE OF EMORYUNIVERSITY & EMORYHEALTHCARE to recruit a Vice President
of Cancer Nursing. Magee Resource Group is an experienced Executive Search firm that
specializes within Oncology & Research Recruitment.
WEBSITES https://winshipcancer.emory.edu/about-us/index.html
https://www.emoryhealthcare.org
THE POSITION
Vice President of Cancer Nursing
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area of cancer services and management of a nursing ambulatory & hospital setting. He/She will
serve as the senior nursing executive to oversee all nursing practice for cancer services at The
WinshipCancerInstituteof Emory University & Emory Healthcare directing operations to ensure
an optimal practice environment for patient-family focused care and fiscally prudent operations
consistent with the mission and vision of Emory Healthcare and the nursing professional practice
model. The VP of Cancer Nursing will be responsible for providing nursing leadership across the
continuum of clinical care to include all inpatient and outpatient cancer areas for Emory
Healthcare. He/She is responsible for administration for overall planning for nursing and
operations for all clinical cancer programs to ensure implementation of the mission,vision, patient
care standards, budget plan and resources to enhance the quality of patient care.
POSITION Vice President of Cancer Nursing
ORGANIZATION
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and Emory
Healthcare
LOCATION Atlanta, GA
REPORTING
RELATIONSHIP
Reports jointly to the Vice President, Cancer Services – Emory
Healthcare & Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University &
Chief Nursing Executive for Emory Healthcare
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Compatibility Assessment
2. The VP of Cancer Nursing will work with the Director of Quality to design systems that provide
quality outcomes data, and actively participates in the design of outcome database within MD &
quality leadership. He/She will build relationships with oncology clinicians and managers
throughout the organization to plan process improvements make recommendations for the
budgets relative to nursing quality, safety, outcomes, care redesign, and survivorship operations.
He/she will provide recommendations for staffing; maintain compliance with all relevant
legislative, compliance, and regulatory rules and requirements established by state and federal
agencies. 200 + FTE’s
Duties and Responsibilities
Within this role, the VP, Cancer Nursing will:
Clinical Leadership
a. Ensures implementation of professional hospital and ambulatory standards to support
outcomes based care and scholarly, research based practice consistent with Winship and Emory
Healthcare missions
b. Actively partners with physician leaders and Clinical Directors to evaluate the impact of
changes in clinical practice and support innovation to improve care delivery and resources in
the environment of practice
c. Leads and participates in clinical redesign and improvement teams to facilitate advancing
clinical practice of patient care and assure adequate resources for clinical and non-clinical
support for patient care
d. Directs and evaluates the efficacy, effectiveness, and efficiency of the performance of all cancer
focused clinical personnel in carrying out the mission of Winship and Emory Healthcare
e. Ensures the development of interdisciplinary clinical pathways, standards of care, and process
improvement activities to evaluate the impact of programs and initiatives on clinical outcomes,
customer satisfaction and the Winship and Emory Healthcare missions
f. Facilitates the utilization of research in the change process
g. Oversees financial planning and prudent application of all resources
h. Advises, mentors, and counsels managers related to ethical issues, complex practice dilemmas
and as indicated to meet the needs of patient-family focused care in inpatient and outpatient
areas
i. Serves on the Emory Healthcare CNE leadership council
Administration
a. Participates with other departmental leaders and hospital decision-making structures and
processes
b. Ensures an appropriate staffing plan is implemented by Clinical Nurse Managers to ensure a
safe, appropriate staffing plan for all personnel
c. Ensures the implementation of care center specific standards. Supports the clinical leadership
in the development of interdisciplinary and nursing standards relevant to the scope of practice
for the care center
d. Participates in strategic planning initiatives and formulates annual goals that support the goals
of the Winship as it pertains to patient care
e. Participates with other leaders to ensure the environment of care is compliant with internal
standards and external regulatory standards
3. f. Represents Cancer Services and/or the Department of Nursing on hospital committees and
teams.
Management of Human Resources and Development
a. Ensures that personnel issues are managed in compliance with policy and supports positive
employee-management relationships
b. Collaborates with other nursing and hospital leaders to promote professional development of
nursing staff and other care center professionals
c. Supports participation in continuing education programs
d. Ensures all personnel receive performance appraisals, are appropriately credentialed,
competent, and complete ongoing mandatory programs to provide patient care.
e. Participates in negotiating activities with Human Resources regarding contractual agreements
as necessary
f. Supports the presence of undergraduate and graduate student experiences, and mentoring
programs in accordance with Emory Healthcare policy.
g. Reevaluates periodically competency requirements for position descriptions based on the
changing needs of the patient population.
Fiscal Management
a. Responsible for the formulation and monitoring of the Clinical Cancer Services budget
b. Participates with physician leaders and Hospital/Clinic Administration in short term and long
term strategic planning including development of volume targets
c. Disseminates and interprets information with Clinical Directors of Nursing and Clinical Nurse
Managers, as indicated
d. Monitors, evaluates and readjusts financial plans, as indicated to meet the changing needs of
the care center population
Professional Development
a. Participates in nursing professional organizations and supports same in clinical nursing
leadership
b. Participates in public speaking, publishing and creating an environment for scholarly,
professional nursing practice
c. Maintains awareness of current trends and legislation affecting the nursing profession and
healthcare delivery
d. Treats co-workers, patients and families with dignity and respect
e. Demonstrates openness and responsiveness to the diverse backgrounds and experiences of
other people, and promotes an environment that is sensitive to cultural diversity
Candidate Qualities and Qualifications
• Master’s degree in nursing or related field required. If candidate does not have a graduate
degree in nursing, then BSN required with a MHA/MBA, OCN/AOCN preferred
Doctoral degree recommended
10-15 years demonstrated progression in management/leadership position in acute care
Demonstratedtrackrecord workingoncollaborationwitha directorofquality to improve
quality outcomes related to nursing and patient care delivery
4. Leadership experience in a Magnet designated facility or experience with the magnet
designation process preferred. Leadership experience in a shared governance structure
preferred.
Passion for oncology nursing leadership.
Previous multi service line experience at the Director level or above
Electric Health Record experience preferred
THE CLIENT
Emory Healthcare
As a matrix Cancer Center,Winship is a clinical partner to Emory Healthcare, the clinical
enterprise of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) of Emory University
(EU). The WHSC components include Emory University School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson
Woodruff School of Nursing, Rollins School of Public Health, Yerkes National Primate Research
Center, Winship Cancer Institute, and Emory Healthcare,the most comprehensive health
system in Georgia. The Woodruff Health Sciences Center has $3.7 billion in operating
expenditures, 24,067 employees (including 3,035 faculty),1,236 affiliated faculty, 5,207 students
and trainees, and a $7.2 billion economic impact on metro Atlanta.
Emory Healthcare (EHC) is Georgia’s most comprehensive academic health care system with a
choice of more than 2,000 doctors and 200 locations, including 6 hospitals as well as primacy
care, urgent care and MinuteClinics. Emory Healthcare is the only health system in Georgia
with three Magnet-designated hospitals, Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Emory University
Hospital and Emory University Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital (EUOSH).
Emory Healthcare (EHC) has cultivated a strong culture dedicated to quality. Emory
Healthcare’s goal for quality continues to be enhancements in clinical outcomes, patient safety
and service, resulting in a national ranking for quality among the top 10 percent of academic
medical centers in the U.S. according to Vizient and Press Ganey.
Emory Healthcare encompasses teams of providers at multiple locations across Georgia.
Including Emory University Hospital, Emory University Hospital Midtown, Emory University
Orthopaedics & Spine Hospital, Emory Rehabilitation Hospital and the Wesley Woods Center,
Emory Saint Joseph Hospital and Emory Johns Creek Hospital; Emory Clinic, and The Winship
Cancer Institute of Emory University, the state’s ONLY National Cancer Institute-designated
cancer center.
5. Emory Health System’s Mission and Vision
Emory Healthcare is an integrated academic healthcare system committed to providing the best
care for our patients, educating health professionals and leaders for the future, pursuing
discovery research in all of its forms, including basic, clinical, and population-based research,
and serving our community. As the clinical enterprise of the Robert W. Woodruff Health
Sciences Center (WHSC) of Emory University (EU), EHC is dedicated to the unifying core
purpose, core values, and strategic direction of the WHSC.
Core Purpose: To Serve Humanity by Improving Health through integration of education,
discovery and health care
Core Values: Excellence, Caring, Integrity
Core values guide everyday behaviors. EHC will live by its core values in the following
manner:
Excellence: We are committed to continuous improvement in all that we do and strive to
be a leader for others to emulate. We take pride in what we do as individuals and as part
of a team.
Caring: We demonstrate concern and compassion for our patients and their families,
treating each person with dignity as we attend to the needs of the mind, body, and
spirit.
Integrity: We practice the highest ethical standards andhonor our commitments. We
take personal responsibility and ownership for our actions and demonstrate respect for
our patients and their families, staff, and providers. We will steward our resources
wisely to fulfill our mission.
Vision: To be recognized as a leading academic health system, differentiated by discovery,
innovation and compassionate, patient- and family-centered care.
6. The Winship Cancer Institute
In 1937, Coca-Cola CEO Robert Winship Woodruff founded Winship Cancer Institute with a
generous gift to Emory. The center was named after his grandfather as a way of honoring his
mother who lost her battle to cancer. His mission was that no one would need to leave Georgia
for the best cancer treatment. In its first year of operation, Winship treated 168 patients. Today,
Winship sees more than 14,000 patients a year.
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University is the only National Cancer Institute-designated
cancer center in Georgia and one of only 69 in the country. This means that Georgians have
improved access to clinical trials and resources available only at designated cancer centers. Only
1.3 percent have achieved this NCI accreditation of over 5,000 national cancer centers. This
designation requires effective collaboration among interdisciplinary teams throughout Emory
and other organizations in the Southeast and the United States. These efforts reinforce their
commitment to their community and those that EHC is privileged to serve.
7. Mission
The mission of the Winship Cancer Institute is to lessen the burden of cancer for the citizens of
Georgia through aligning its outstanding cancer research and education initiatives with its
significant cancer prevention and cancer care efforts.
Core Values
Courage: Their patients’ exceptional examples of courage inspire their research, their care and
their growth as a world-class cancer center.
Compassion: Compassion compels them to do everything humanly possible to reduce the
burden that cancer places on their patients.
Collaboration: Winship’s culture of collaboration is built upon trust, communication, and belief
in success achieved by working together. They collaborate across disciplines, departments and
with external partners in order to achieve a common goal.
Discovery: Winship's enterprising approach to research leads to transformative discoveries.
Their faculty, staff, patients, and friends form a strong and vital community committed to
pushing the boundaries of imagination and science.
Hope: They work with their patients and their loved ones to establish trust and to communicate
a realistic and individualized approach to treatment. In building trust, they gain hope.
Innovation: They value innovation through creativity, discipline, unwavering commitment, and
responsibility to their patients. Innovation is realized through the intersection of technology and
vision, communication, risk, and belief in the value of their work.
Integrity: They are steadfast in their commitment to Winship patients and their loved ones, to
each other, and to their community. They will steward their resources wisely to fulfill their
mission.
Research Programs
The Winship Institute of Emory University offers four full research programs including Cancer
Cell Biology, Cancer Prevention and Control, Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics, and Discovery
and Developmental Therapeutics.
Cancer Cell Biology (CCB) research program encompasses a tightly knit team of scientists
grouped around the central thematic of tumor signaling in the context of inter- and intra-cellular
signaling modulated by tumor microenvironment, and its ramifications for the development of
prevention, prediction, biomarker and therapeutic target discovery and drug development.
Cancer Prevention and Control (CPC) research program organizes all of the cancer prevention-
relatedresearchactivitiesat WinshipCancerInstitute.Theseactivitiesspanthecancerprevention
8. continuum from primary to secondary to tertiary prevention at the individual, select population,
and societal levels.
The four primary scientific themes to this program are:
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Chemoprevention
Health Behavior Research
Symptom Management and Control
Health Outcomes and Quality of Care
CancerGeneticsandEpigenetics (CGE)researchprogramistodecreasehumancancermortality
through obtaining a better understanding of fundamental genetic alterations occurring at the
DNA and chromatin levels that are responsible for the initiation, development and progression
of tumors and influence responses to therapy.
DiscoveryandDevelopmentalTherapeutics (DDT) research programisto foster a collaborative
team research environment to promote molecular target interrogation for cancer drug discovery
and to facilitate translational clinical trials for effective therapeutic development.
The four central themes include:
Drug Discovery
Imaging
Immunotherapy
Developmental Therapeutics
9. THE LOCATION
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Atlanta is an outstanding place to live and work. Located in the geographic centerof the
Southeast, the area is the nation's 9th largest metropolitan area and home to the world's most
traveled airport. The city of Atlanta is home to more than 463,000 people and over 5.7million
reside in the Atlanta metro area. Atlanta is a regional, national and global center for business
operations of all kinds - from headquarters to life sciences, from distribution centers to
traditional manufacturing.
Atlanta is a city that offers thousands of cultural, recreation and nightlife opportunities every
weekend. The local art scene thrives on the diversity of the population, and you are bound to
find gallery, theatre or festival openings occurring daily. Atlantans also take advantage of the
weather by enjoying outdoor activities like biking, running, golfing and hiking in the
Appalachians year-round. Atlanta's nightlife offers some of the top names in rock, soul, R&B
and even country music started out playing in Atlanta's clubs.
Atlanta attracts more newcomers to the area than any other metro area in the nation. In fact,
two-thirds of metro Atlanta's annual population increase is due to in-migration. The attraction
to the area is both the promise of easy access to numerous renowned colleges and universities
and the draw of stimulating employment opportunities. With a wide variety of affordable
housing options and neighborhoods to choose from, matching your needs with your wants is
definitely possible. Other Atlanta advantages cited by newcomers and business leaders include
the low cost of living, high quality of life, pro-business climate and easy access to direct route
transportation anywhere on the globe through Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport.
10. Atlanta serves as the regional, national, or global headquarters for many corporations. Atlanta
contains the country's third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies, and the city is the
global headquarters of corporations such as The Coca-Cola Company, The Home Depot, Delta
Air Lines, AT&T Mobility, UPS, and Newell-Rubbermaid. Over 75 percent of Fortune 1000
companies conduct business operations in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and the region hosts
offices of about 1,250 multinational corporations. Many corporations are drawn to by the city's
educated workforce; as of 2010, nearly 43% of adults in the city of Atlanta have college degrees,
compared to 27% in the nation as a whole.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has served as a key engine of Atlanta's
economic growth. Delta Air Lines, the city's largest employer and the metro area's third
largest, operates the world's largest airline hub at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International
Airport and has helped make Hartsfield-Jackson the world's busiest airport, both in terms of
passenger traffic and aircraft operations. Partly due to the airport, Atlanta has become a hub for
diplomatic missions; as of 2012, the city contains 25 general consulates, the seventh-highest
concentration of diplomatic missions in the United States.
Media is also an important aspect of Atlanta's economy. The city is a major cable television
programming center. Ted Turner established the headquarters of both the Cable News Network
(CNN) and the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) in Atlanta. Cox Enterprises, the country's
third-largest cable television service and the publisher of over a dozen major American
newspapers, is headquartered in the city. The Weather Channel, owned by NBC Universal, Bain
Capital, and The Blackstone Group, is headquartered just outside of Atlanta in Cobb County.
Information technology, an economic sector that includes publishing, software development,
entertainment and data processing has garnered a larger percentage of Atlanta's economic
output. Indeed, Atlanta has been nicknamed the Silicon peach due to its burgeoning technology
sector. As of 2013, Atlanta contains the fourth-largest concentration of information technology
jobs in the United States, numbering 85,000. Atlanta also ranks as the sixth-fastest growing city
for information technology jobs, with an employment growth of 4.8% in 2012 and a three-year
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Largely due to a state-wide tax incentive enacted in 2005,the Georgia Entertainment Industry
Investment Act, which awards qualified productions a transferable income tax credit of 20% of
all in-state costs for film and television investments of $500,000 or more, Atlanta has become a
center for film and television production. Film and television production facilities in Atlanta
include Turner Studios, Pinewood Studios (Pinewood Atlanta), Tyler Perry Studios, Williams
Street Productions, and the EUE/Screen Gems soundstages. Film and television production
injected $1 billion into Georgia's economy in 2010, with Atlanta garnering most of the projects.
Atlanta is home to professional franchises for four major team sports: the Atlanta Braves of
Major League Baseball, the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association, the Atlanta
Falcons of the National Football League, and Atlanta United FC of the Major League Soccer
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11. Atlanta, while located in the South,has a culture that is no longer strictly Southern. This is due
to a large population of migrants from other parts of the U.S., in addition to many recent
immigrants to the U.S. who have made the metropolitan area their home, establishing Atlanta
as the cultural and economic hub of an increasingly multi-cultural metropolitan area. Thus,
although traditional Southern culture is part of Atlanta's cultural fabric,it is the backdrop to
one of the nation's most cosmopolitan cities. This unique cultural combination reveals itself in
the arts district of Midtown, the new and growing cool the quirky neighborhoods on the city's
eastside, and the multi-ethnic enclaves found along Buford Highway. Within the 285 beltway
around Atlanta,there are many neighborhoods catering to various interests whether it be
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