From left: Carolyn M. Williams, CPCS, and Susan Rux, PH.D., D.N.P., RN, ACNS-BC, CENP, CNE, CPCC, FACHE, LNCC, NEA-BC, NPD-BC, OCN
With almost 30 years of expertise within the well being care subject, Dr. Susan Rux serves because the affiliate vice chairman {of professional} nursing observe and nursing analysis with Fox Chase Most cancers Middle. Beforehand she was dean of educational affairs and chief nursing officer.
With intention, she has constructed and sustained collegial and trusting relationships with peer nurses and operational leaders in addition to scientific companions throughout the communities of curiosity, serving as a mentor for a number of nurses and leaders. She upholds the core values, integrity and respect for others with each interplay.
Oncological analysis is central to the each day work of Dr. Rux. She serves because the principal investigator of a examine on scientific trial enrollment of underrepresented sufferers with kidney most cancers. This analysis is supported by means of her award of a $564,000 grant from the Division of Protection. She holds quite a few skilled memberships, board appointments, certifications and fellowships spanning the executive, schooling, and observe fields of well being care and nursing. Dr. Rux has disseminated significant analysis in dozens of native, regional, nationwide and worldwide podium/oral displays and publications. She’s a pure tradition dealer, and her work has prolonged to creating different tradition brokers to uphold the organizational mission and imaginative and prescient.
Carolyn M. Williams, CPCS, and Susan Rux, PH.D., D.N.P., RN, ACNS-BC, CENP, CNE, CPCC, FACHE, LNCC, NEA-BC, NPD-BC, OCN
Her management experience extends past the office and has been counseled by her service on skilled and organizational boards in addition to volunteer work as a board of trustees member of the Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania since 2008. She is a Fellow of the American School of Healthcare Executives and the New York Academy of Drugs.
Her nursing constellation stays grounded in respect for the inherent price and dignity of people with whom she interacts. She perceives that every colleague has a specific job to do and values their roles. She shares notes of gratitude with colleagues and their managers. Dr. Rux embraces the tradition of management and holds the bar excessive for her staff and herself; succession planning is a essential focus. Dr. Rux empowers her staff to strengthen connections with new hires and nurse residents. That is achieved by means of a proper weekly check-in course of that goals to handle and consider their progress to orientation objective attainment, in collaboration with their nursing management staff and preceptor. Colleagues shared that this course of helps to “meet them the place they’re at” and shut any gaps sooner reasonably than later. From this refinement, the Nurse Residency Program has resulted within the retention of extremely certified employees to help the nursing bench, which is extra essential than ever throughout this essential nursing scarcity.
She has exemplified her dedication to main and growing her staff by means of being a extremely motivated and pushed chief. This dedication and drive are mirrored in her each day work. In regards to the preservation of dignity, at instances when teaching of others is warranted, she does so with the decision of the scenario entrance of thoughts.
She believes that the colleague being coached have to be concerned in co-creating a decision or efficiency success plan. She facilitates the expansion and growth of her staff and all colleagues by means of a welcoming and respectful demeanor. Dr. Rux articulates a transparent technique to keep up scientific operations and colleague help. This technique contains stretch assignments of her current staff members, strengthening of partnerships with operations and energetic engagement in hiring best-in-class colleagues, all of which lead to a stronger candidate pool from which to recruit expertise.
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