Houston Methodist
Nursing Professional Practice Leader (RN) |Nurse Education
Houston Methodist, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246
Nursing Professional Practice Leader (RN) | Nurse Education
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Nursing Professional Practice Leader (RN) | Nurse Education
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Come lead with us at Houston Methodist Hospital. The Nursing Professional Practice Leader (PPL) II position is a specialty role for a Nursing Professional Development (NPD) practitioner who primarily practices in a specific department or service-line practice environment, focusing on the growth of individuals and groups within a nursing specialty. In addition to performing the duties and responsibilities of the PPL I, this position serves as a consultant and subject matter clinician for a service line/specialty area, functioning at the Expert level of Benner’s model of clinical practice.
The PPL II advances specialty care through leading inquiry projects, analyzing outcome metrics, implementing performance improvement, designing innovative programs to enhance learner growth, creating strategic interdisciplinary and community partnerships, collaborating on specialty initiatives, and engaging in specialty accreditation and/or recognition programs.
People Essential Functions
Develops a strategic plan, in partnership with specialty leadership, to facilitate staff growth and development to meet established priorities and expected clinical outcomes.
Builds collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to drive professional development initiatives and achieve optimal results. Leads initiatives within the entity and seeks practice consensus with health‑management system partners.
Leads through influence as an advocate, mentor, and change agent in the practice environment. Communicates effectively with individuals, collaborators, and as a group leader. Role models peer‑to‑peer accountability toward improvement of employee engagement.
Service Essential Functions
Leads the educational process through completion of an assessment, identification of practice gaps (including lack of knowledge, skill, or inability to translate knowledge into practice), identification of desired outcomes, planning, facilitation of learning, and evaluation. Creates learning activities, with entity and health‑management system partners, to address departmental learning needs, incorporating learning theories and change principles. Promotes transfer of knowledge to practice, ensuring that knowledge and training are integrated into care.
Develops a timely and efficient department onboarding process, orientation, and professional development plan related to the service line and competency requirements. Builds programs collaboratively with NPD entity and/or health‑management system peers and interdisciplinary partners.
Connects with entity and health‑management system peers to share best practices. Reports outcome measures of professional development initiatives to relevant stakeholders and engages in action planning, as necessary, to meet learner needs and address effectiveness.
Quality/Safety Essential Functions
Leads and facilitates quality improvement initiatives identified through assessment data and knowledge of key quality indicators and event reporting. Collaborates with department/service-line leadership, quality team, and other stakeholders to synthesize, analyze, and prioritize patient quality and/or patient satisfaction opportunities and create an action plan using performance improvement methods and tools.
Develops and participates in initial and/or ongoing competency assessments that consider strategic departmental, entity, or system initiatives. Utilizes creative approaches to competency assessment, including coordinating competency events and mentoring staff competency validators. Establishes competency critical elements based on standards and best practices.
Builds and revises programs and/or activities grounded in evidence‑based practice and relevant policies, procedures, and standards. Leads performance improvement projects.
Evaluates practice through knowledge of applicable professional scope and standards, policies and procedures, and regulatory standards, including recognition of practice patterns and variances. Advances patient care through achievement/maintenance of specialty designations. Serves as a consultant in their specialty area.
Finance Essential Functions
Collaborates with leadership to develop programs, services, and curricula within the approved budget with recognition of return on investment and/or cost avoidance. Appropriately allocates and utilizes resources.
Role models efficient time management and resources. Implements solutions to achieve organizational objectives that result in a positive financial impact.
Growth/Innovation Essential Functions
Leads a spirit of inquiry by applying evidence‑based practice and research in patient care. Mentors staff in project development and execution, as well as in creating and submitting clinical abstracts, posters, and presentations.
Develops proposals for innovative programs, projects, inquiry, and innovation, teaching strategies, and/or learning methodologies. Engages in environmental scanning to identify future needs. Facilitates staff to identify learning needs and navigate options to advance knowledge and skills.
Leads in obtaining service-line/department level specialty designations, recognitions, or awards.
Seeks opportunities to identify self‑development needs and takes appropriate action. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management. Completes and updates the My Development Plan on an ongoing basis.
Education
Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree, one from an accredited school of Nursing.
Master’s degree in education field preferred.
Work Experience
Six years clinical nursing experience with two years in a primary nursing professional development role.
Licenses And Certifications – Required
Registered Nurse – Texas State Licensure (Compact Licensure). Must obtain permanent Texas license within 60 days if establishing Texas residency.
Basic Life Support (BLS) or Instructor (AHA).
Clinical Nursing Professional Development – Board Certified (NPD‑BC) from ANCC. Current incumbents have two years from job start to obtain NPD‑BC within one year.
Magnet ANCC‑recognized certification (HM).
Licenses And Certifications – Preferred
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) or Instructor (AHA).
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) or Instructor (AHA).
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through ongoing skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations.
Proficient in speaking, reading, and writing English necessary to perform essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security.
Effective communication with patients, physicians, family members, and co‑workers in a customer‑service focused manner and applying positive language principles.
Strong assessment, organizational, and problem‑solving skills, evidenced by capacity to prioritize multiple tasks.
Acts as an effective change agent.
Ability to apply evidence‑based practice.
Exhibits leadership abilities including collaboration, consultation, and coaching.
Proficient time‑management skill.
Utilizes adult learning theory and demonstrates knowledge of current educational technologies.
Maintains working knowledge of electronic resources, including Microsoft applications.
Supplemental Requirements
Work Attire: Scrubs Yes, Business Professional Yes, Uniform No, Other (department approved) No.
On‑Call: No (employees may be required to be on‑call during emergencies regardless of selection).
Travel: May require travel within the Houston metropolitan area. May require travel outside Houston metropolitan area No.
Houston Methodist is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This job description is not intended to be all‑inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business/job duties as assigned. Houston Methodist reserves the right to revise job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.
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Nursing Professional Practice Leader (RN) | Nurse Education
role at
Houston Methodist
Come lead with us at Houston Methodist Hospital. The Nursing Professional Practice Leader (PPL) II position is a specialty role for a Nursing Professional Development (NPD) practitioner who primarily practices in a specific department or service-line practice environment, focusing on the growth of individuals and groups within a nursing specialty. In addition to performing the duties and responsibilities of the PPL I, this position serves as a consultant and subject matter clinician for a service line/specialty area, functioning at the Expert level of Benner’s model of clinical practice.
The PPL II advances specialty care through leading inquiry projects, analyzing outcome metrics, implementing performance improvement, designing innovative programs to enhance learner growth, creating strategic interdisciplinary and community partnerships, collaborating on specialty initiatives, and engaging in specialty accreditation and/or recognition programs.
People Essential Functions
Develops a strategic plan, in partnership with specialty leadership, to facilitate staff growth and development to meet established priorities and expected clinical outcomes.
Builds collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to drive professional development initiatives and achieve optimal results. Leads initiatives within the entity and seeks practice consensus with health‑management system partners.
Leads through influence as an advocate, mentor, and change agent in the practice environment. Communicates effectively with individuals, collaborators, and as a group leader. Role models peer‑to‑peer accountability toward improvement of employee engagement.
Service Essential Functions
Leads the educational process through completion of an assessment, identification of practice gaps (including lack of knowledge, skill, or inability to translate knowledge into practice), identification of desired outcomes, planning, facilitation of learning, and evaluation. Creates learning activities, with entity and health‑management system partners, to address departmental learning needs, incorporating learning theories and change principles. Promotes transfer of knowledge to practice, ensuring that knowledge and training are integrated into care.
Develops a timely and efficient department onboarding process, orientation, and professional development plan related to the service line and competency requirements. Builds programs collaboratively with NPD entity and/or health‑management system peers and interdisciplinary partners.
Connects with entity and health‑management system peers to share best practices. Reports outcome measures of professional development initiatives to relevant stakeholders and engages in action planning, as necessary, to meet learner needs and address effectiveness.
Quality/Safety Essential Functions
Leads and facilitates quality improvement initiatives identified through assessment data and knowledge of key quality indicators and event reporting. Collaborates with department/service-line leadership, quality team, and other stakeholders to synthesize, analyze, and prioritize patient quality and/or patient satisfaction opportunities and create an action plan using performance improvement methods and tools.
Develops and participates in initial and/or ongoing competency assessments that consider strategic departmental, entity, or system initiatives. Utilizes creative approaches to competency assessment, including coordinating competency events and mentoring staff competency validators. Establishes competency critical elements based on standards and best practices.
Builds and revises programs and/or activities grounded in evidence‑based practice and relevant policies, procedures, and standards. Leads performance improvement projects.
Evaluates practice through knowledge of applicable professional scope and standards, policies and procedures, and regulatory standards, including recognition of practice patterns and variances. Advances patient care through achievement/maintenance of specialty designations. Serves as a consultant in their specialty area.
Finance Essential Functions
Collaborates with leadership to develop programs, services, and curricula within the approved budget with recognition of return on investment and/or cost avoidance. Appropriately allocates and utilizes resources.
Role models efficient time management and resources. Implements solutions to achieve organizational objectives that result in a positive financial impact.
Growth/Innovation Essential Functions
Leads a spirit of inquiry by applying evidence‑based practice and research in patient care. Mentors staff in project development and execution, as well as in creating and submitting clinical abstracts, posters, and presentations.
Develops proposals for innovative programs, projects, inquiry, and innovation, teaching strategies, and/or learning methodologies. Engages in environmental scanning to identify future needs. Facilitates staff to identify learning needs and navigate options to advance knowledge and skills.
Leads in obtaining service-line/department level specialty designations, recognitions, or awards.
Seeks opportunities to identify self‑development needs and takes appropriate action. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management. Completes and updates the My Development Plan on an ongoing basis.
Education
Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree, one from an accredited school of Nursing.
Master’s degree in education field preferred.
Work Experience
Six years clinical nursing experience with two years in a primary nursing professional development role.
Licenses And Certifications – Required
Registered Nurse – Texas State Licensure (Compact Licensure). Must obtain permanent Texas license within 60 days if establishing Texas residency.
Basic Life Support (BLS) or Instructor (AHA).
Clinical Nursing Professional Development – Board Certified (NPD‑BC) from ANCC. Current incumbents have two years from job start to obtain NPD‑BC within one year.
Magnet ANCC‑recognized certification (HM).
Licenses And Certifications – Preferred
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) or Instructor (AHA).
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) or Instructor (AHA).
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through ongoing skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations.
Proficient in speaking, reading, and writing English necessary to perform essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security.
Effective communication with patients, physicians, family members, and co‑workers in a customer‑service focused manner and applying positive language principles.
Strong assessment, organizational, and problem‑solving skills, evidenced by capacity to prioritize multiple tasks.
Acts as an effective change agent.
Ability to apply evidence‑based practice.
Exhibits leadership abilities including collaboration, consultation, and coaching.
Proficient time‑management skill.
Utilizes adult learning theory and demonstrates knowledge of current educational technologies.
Maintains working knowledge of electronic resources, including Microsoft applications.
Supplemental Requirements
Work Attire: Scrubs Yes, Business Professional Yes, Uniform No, Other (department approved) No.
On‑Call: No (employees may be required to be on‑call during emergencies regardless of selection).
Travel: May require travel within the Houston metropolitan area. May require travel outside Houston metropolitan area No.
Houston Methodist is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This job description is not intended to be all‑inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business/job duties as assigned. Houston Methodist reserves the right to revise job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.
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