VP of Inpatient Services

111 Michigan Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20010

Kids Are Our Everything.

Department
10290 Hospital - CNO Nursing & Patie

Pay Range
$150,000.00 - $450,000.00

Reporting to the Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, the Vice President of Inpatient Services is responsible for overall operations within the inpatient division of nursing, including planning, directing, implementing, and evaluating programs and services. The VP of Inpatient Services oversees nursing quality, regulatory, patient safety, fiscal, operational performance, and clinical outcomes within the inpatient departments as delegated by the CNO. Additional responsibilities include participating in planning and decision-making at various hospital levels and representing inpatient nursing on hospital external committees and task forces as needed.

As a member of the Nursing Executive Leadership Team, the VP of Inpatient Services collaborates with providers, quality and safety leaders, finance, human resources, and interdisciplinary teams to advance high-reliability care, operational discipline, workforce engagement, patient and family experience, regulatory readiness, and measurable clinical outcomes.

Minimum Education –

• Master’s Degree (Required)

• BSN (Required)

• Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), PhD, DHA, EdD, or other doctoral degree (Preferred)

Minimum Work Experience

• 15 years Nursing experience to include at least 7 years of clinical experience (Required)

• 5 years of progressive responsibility in nursing leadership positions (Required)

• Demonstrated executive experience leading complex inpatient nursing and patient care services in a pediatric hospital, academic medical center, or comparable quaternary healthcare environment, including daily operations, acute care, critical care, specialty programs, staffing systems, capacity management, care coordination, and multidisciplinary teams.

• Proven success managing budgets, quality outcomes, workforce engagement, and change initiatives.

• Experience in a children’s hospital, pediatric service line, or academic pediatric healthcare setting is strongly preferred.

Required Skills/Knowledge –

• Advanced knowledge of pediatric inpatient nursing practice, patient care services, family-centered care, developmentally appropriate care, complex acute and critical care operations, care model redesign, case management, utilization management, discharge planning, care coordination, patient throughput, and safe transitions of care.

• Demonstrated expertise leading inpatient operations across complex pediatric settings, including clinical workflows, staffing models, workforce productivity, capacity management, surge planning, patient progression, and performance improvement.

• Strong knowledge of professional nursing practice standards, Magnet recognition principles, shared governance, flexible staffing models, evidence-based practice, nursing research, leadership development, regulatory and accreditation requirements, high reliability, health equity, and pediatric quality and safety frameworks.

• Proven ability to establish and monitor quality, safety, experience, workforce, operational, and financial performance metrics to drive measurable outcomes.

• Executive-level understanding of healthcare finance, operating and capital budgets, workforce planning, productivity management, strategic resource allocation, business planning, and value-based care.

• Ability to develop and execute long-term inpatient services strategies aligned with enterprise priorities, clinical service line growth, academic missions, nursing excellence, care transformation, operational performance, and national pediatric benchmarks.

• Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale change, innovation, standardization, and transformation initiatives across complex healthcare environments.

• Exceptional executive communication, presentation, negotiation, and influencing skills with the ability to engage senior leaders, physicians, boards, staff, patients, families, and community stakeholders.

• Strong relationship-building skills with demonstrated success partnering across nursing, physician, operational, academic, community, and administrative teams.

• Skilled in collaboration, conflict resolution, consensus-building, stakeholder alignment, and leading interdisciplinary teams toward shared goals.

• Proven ability to foster an engaged, accountable, inclusive, and high-performing workforce through leadership development, mentorship, succession planning, and professional growth.

• Strong business acumen, systems thinking, strategic judgment, and ability to balance clinical excellence, operational efficiency, financial stewardship, and patient and family experience.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to represent inpatient services internally and externally at the executive, community, regional, and national levels.

Required Licenses and Certifications –

• Current Registered Nurse unencumbered licensure as a registered nurse in District of Columbia (Required)

• Current Registered Nurse, unencumbered compact state licensure as a registered nurse as applicable (MD, VA) (Required) Board-certified as a nurse executive Upon Hire (Required)

• Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) (Required)

• Nurse executive certification required within established organizational timeframe if not held upon hire; pediatric, critical care, or specialty nursing certification preferred.

Functional Accountabilities

Strategic Leadership

• Assist with the development and execution of the Nursing strategic vision, strategic plan, and enterprise priorities for Inpatient Services across acute care, service lines, and specialty programs.

• Champion enterprise-wide initiatives that elevate operational performance, care model effectiveness, nursing excellence, capacity optimization, discharge readiness, quality, safety, patient and family experience, workforce engagement, and sustainable growth for inpatient services.

• Forge strategic partnerships with executives, physicians, operational, clinical, academic, and interdisciplinary leaders to accelerate integrated inpatient care, pediatric service expansion, and transformative nursing practice.

• Leverage national pediatric benchmarks, Magnet standards, operational intelligence, nursing research, clinical outcomes, and emerging healthcare trends to shape the future of inpatient nursing practice and patient care delivery.

• Represent inpatient services in enterprise planning, hospital governance, clinical transformation, service line development, capacity management, and executive decision-making forums.

• Care delivery, patient flow, safety, experience, and organizational performance.

Workforce Strategy, Optimization and Transformation

• Plan and execute the strategic direction for Inpatient Services, aligning workforce, care delivery, capacity, quality, and service growth with Children’s National’s mission and enterprise priorities.

• Optimize inpatient nursing models, staffing, patient flow, care progression, discharge planning, and coordination to improve outcomes and operational performance.

• Translate strategy into measurable priorities while advancing workforce engagement, retention, leadership accountability, succession planning, and professional growth.

• Lead organizational transformation by integrating service lines, future-state models, innovation, technology, equity, safety, and continuous learning.

Enterprise Clinical Excellence & Professional Nursing Practice

• Provide executive oversight for professional nursing practice across Inpatient Services to drive clinical excellence and professional nursing practice.

• Advance evidence-based pediatric nursing care models, interprofessional practice, and care delivery redesign that improve clinical outcomes, operational reliability, patient progression, equity, and patient and family experience.

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