Ms. Fox leads nursing practice for more than 1,200 nurses delivering care to approximately 500,000 patients annually, shaping clinical standards, workforce strategy and an empowered professional practice environment at Nevada’s highest-acuity safety-net provider. Since joining University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in 2015, she has driven a nursing culture transformation grounded in shared governance, academic partnerships and career progression, strengthening nurse satisfaction and stability. Under her leadership, the medical center’s voluntary nurse turnover declined from 18% in 2015 to about 9% in recent years, compared with a reported national nurse turnover rate of 18.4% in 2023. She established the medical center’s nurse residency program, accredited with distinction by the ANCC, to strengthen transition-to-practice and mitigate workforce shortages, while expanding partnerships with University of Nevada, Las Vegas and other schools to build the region’s nursing pipeline. Ms. Fox also advanced nurse-led clinical scholarship through an annual nursing research day and conference that averages 75–80 submissions per year. A proven crisis leader, she strengthened disaster preparedness and supported the medical center’s response to the October 1, 2017 mass casualty event and the Covid-19 pandemic, including large-scale community testing and vaccination services. The medical center is now pursuing its first Magnet designation, which would make it the first Magnet hospital in Nevada.
