Nursing Professional Practice Consultant, Full Time, Days

About the role

The Nursing Professional Practice Consultant serves as an expert practitioner and change agent to advance high-quality, evidence-based nursing care across the organization. In addition to providing professional practice consultation, this role leads the design, development, implementation, and ongoing evaluation of education programs for nursing and interprofessional staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert nursing consultation to optimize patient outcomes, safety, and adherence to best practices and regulatory standards.
• Lead or participate in the development and revision of clinical practice guidelines, standards of care, policies, and care pathways in collaboration with nursing leadership and interprofessional teams.
• Facilitate evidence-based practice (EBP) initiatives, including needs assessments, gap analyses, literature reviews, implementation planning, and outcome measurement.
• Lead or participate in performance improvement activities using quality improvement methods and data-driven approaches.
• Support professional practice governance through participation in committees and workgroups; translate policy into practice with practical tools and standard work.
• Ensure alignment of education programs and competency assurance initiatives across nursing and interprofessional teams with organizational goals, regulatory requirements, and hospital safety standards.
• Develop, implement, and manage comprehensive education programs, including onboarding/orientation, residency/new-graduate programs, specialty tracks, competency-based curricula, and ongoing clinical education.
• Manage learning management system (LMS) activities: course creation, enrollment, tracking, certifications, and reporting; ensure compliance with continuing education (CE) requirements and documentation.
• Build strong working relationships with nursing leadership, medical staff, quality, safety, informatics, education, and operative services to enable practice changes.
• Serve as a consultant, educator, and mentor to promote professional practice, professional development and lifelong learning.
• Advocate for and facilitate practice changes using structured change management approaches; address barriers to adoption and sustain improvements.
• Support interprofessional education initiatives to improve teamwork, communication, and patient-centered care.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university
• Master's Degree in nursing preferred
• 5+ years to 7 years of experience as a registered nurse
• 3+ years to 5 years in education, practice development, or quality improvement

Education

Required: CA Registered Nurse - Valid license as a Registered Nurse issued by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN).

Preferred: BLS - Basic Life Support

Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying.