TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Chief Nurse Officer Council Creates Vision for Future Texas Health’s Chief Nurse Officer Council (CNOC) guides the implementation of the Nursing Strategic Plan. CNOC members include all chief nursing officers (see list on pages 28 and 29), as well as the following leaders:
• Candy Baptist, B.S.N., R.N., M.H.S.M., director of Clinical/Academic Education programs, Texas Health
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Resources Center for Learning Janelle Browne, M.B.A., S.P.H.R., vice president of Human Resources, Texas Health Resources Joan Clark, D.N.P., R.N., N.E.A.-B.C., C.E.N.P., F.A.C.H.E., F.A.A.N., senior vice president and Texas Health Chief Nurse Executive Terri DeSio, Esq., assistant general counsel, Texas Health Resources Linda Gerbig, B.S.N., R.N., M.S.P.H., Texas Health vice president of Performance Improvement Debbie Hay, B.S.N., R.N., C.A.S.C., senior vice president of Texas Health Partners
• Mary Beth Mitchell, M.S.N., R.N., B.C., Texas Health • •
chief nursing information officer Tanya Mitchell, Texas Health program director for Nursing Finance Paula Spears, D.N.Sc., R.N., N.E.A.-B.C., vice president for Professional Practice, Research and Magnet Program
• Marcie Williams, M.S., R.N., F.A.S.H.R.M., C.P.P.S., C.P.H.R.M., C.H.S.P., C.H.E.P., C.L.N.C., Texas Health vice president of Safety and Risk Management CNOs are represented on all Texas Health systemwide Clinical and Operational Performance Improvement Councils, other councils, and committees, giving Nursing the opportunity to influence systemwide processes and programs.
Nurse Executive Residency develops future leaders Texas Health’s Center for Learning Talent Academy launched a Nurse Executive Residency program in 2012 to identify a pool of high-potential nursing directors and equip them with evidence-based skill sets for assuming future nursing executive leader roles. The residency involves leader-led workshops and assignments to achieve personal mastery of a number of competencies, from human resource management to fiscal outcomes. Each participant is assigned to a chief nurse officer within the system to serve as a mentor. Five nurses completed the residency for 2012.
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