Practice Leader, Centralized Nursing Professional Development at Portland, OR (Marquam Hill) – Portland, Oregon

1. Professionalism:
a. Evaluates nursing practice to professional scope and standards
and existing evidence. Uses findings to advance and innovate the
practice environment and culture.
b. Promotes clinical nurses’ translation of theory, scope and
standards into practice to exercise autonomy and decision-making
authority.
c. Advances practice excellence by communicating a clear and
consistent vision about role scope and standards.
d. Collaborates in determining nursing department strategic and
operational priorities.
e. Obtains and maintains a nursing professional certification.
f. Promotes communication of information and advancement of the
profession through writing, publishing, and presentations for
professional or lay audiences.
g. Mentors and supports others to access resources for their
professional development.
h. Engages in informal and formal processes of giving and seeking
feedback regarding role performance from individuals,
professional colleagues, representatives, administrators, and
others

2. Strategic:
a. Partners with others to implement the department strategic plan
that reflects the organizational and nursing strategic and
operational plans.
b. Participates in formulating goals, objectives, tactics, and
outcomes metrics for advancing, innovating, and integrating
professional scope and standards in the practice environment.
c. Collaborates in coordination and implementation of interventions
to meet department strategic and operational plans.
d. Collaborates in communicating, implementing, and
evaluating the department strategic and operational plans

3. Operational:
a. Designs, develops, implements, evaluates, and monitors
onboarding, orientation, professional development, education, and
competencies based on standards and needs assessments.
Including outcome metrics and continuous improvement.
b. Monitors, evaluates, and communicates the application of
professional scope and standards, policies, procedures, and
processes.
c. Collaborates with nursing department leadership to facilitate
practice environment impacts on safety, quality, patient
satisfaction, and employee satisfaction.
d. Partners with others to enhance healthcare and patient care
excellence through activities, such as education, competencies,
informatics, technological development, research, evidence-based
practice, professional development, and quality and safety
opportunities.
e. Ascribes to systems theory with an understanding of how parts of
a structure relate to the overall system.
f. Provides clinical input in the evaluation of products, services and
innovative technologies and assesses their impact on patient care
outcomes.
g. Evaluates competency and intervenes to optimize the practice
environment.
h. Promotes and practices patient/family advocacy and promotes
patient-centered decisions and outcomes.
i. Collaborates with stakeholders of the department, nursing, staff,
professions, and disciplines to support excellence in the practice
environment.
j. Communicates plans and decisions to stakeholders of the
department, nursing, staff, professions, and disciplines.
k. Reflects on own method of decision-making and the role of
beliefs, values, and inferences in leading effectively.
l. Practices within governance structures and promotes decisionmaking by the group that has the authority, responsibility, and
accountability.

4. Improvement:
a. Monitors and uses data to determine practice environment
improvement opportunities and priorities.
b. Partners with stakeholders of the department, nursing, staff,
professions, and disciplines to develop an advancement plan.
c. Engages staff in practice environment work.
d. Evaluates the practice environment to existing professional scope
and standards, and care delivery best practices.
e. Designs, develops and implements quality improvement strategies
and operational plans specific to the practice environment to
ensure nurse-sensitive outcomes meet or exceed established goals.
f. Evaluates the impact/benefits of organizational, nursing, and
department initiatives, and communicate learning to disseminate
best practices.
g. Identifies areas of risk and makes suggestions for reducing risk
and improving outcomes.

5. Research:
a. Promotes nurse-driven research throughout the organization
through education and mentorship.
b. Promotes and builds a practice-related culture for nurse-driven
research.
c. Participates in scholarly work and dissemination (publications and
presentations) contributing to the nursing body of knowledge and
the image of nursing.
d. Engages in interprofessional dialog

6. Human Resources:
a. Uses evidence-based leadership to promote desired behaviors.
b. Collaborates with nursing department leadership, develops highperforming nurses, advancing and rewarding their practice along
the novice-expert continuum.
c. Mentors and coaches nurses to self-reflect on their practice
against professional scope and standards and self-direct their
ongoing professional development.
d. Participates in succession planning.
e. Supervises clinical nurses in role assignments related to
department purpose, structural pillars, and strategic and
operational priorities. May contribute to performance appraisal

7. Fiscal:
a. Develops innovative solutions and applies strategies to obtain
appropriate resources for practice environment priorities.
Measures cost-effectiveness of innovative practice, competency,
technological, research, learning, and professional development
approaches.
b. Promotes activities that inform others about the cost, risks, and
benefits of care, including the plan and solution to minimize risk
and maximize benefits

• AONL Nurse Leader Core Competencies
ANPD Professional Development Competencies

AACN Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education

Unencumbered Oregon RN License.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) from the American Heart
Association (AHA)

Nursing professional certification

• Unencumbered Oregon RN License.
• Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing
• Five years of experience as a registered nurse in a related
  clinical area of practice or focus.
• Work Schedule: Flexible 9/80 work schedule with intermittent remote options.
• • Work Location: Must live in Oregon, Washington, Portland-Vancouver metroplex, within
  100-mile radius to OHSU main campus and clinics.
  • Work Environment:
  o Significant computer work.
  o Rounding in care areas.
  o Some exposure to excessive auditory and visual stimulation.
  Frequent interruptions, change and fluctuations.
• Minimal risk of exposure to human tissue/fluids and radiation.
  • Travel: Based on professional development opportunities including out-of-town conferences.

• Master’s degree in nursing or healthcare-related field.
  • Simulation education experience or CHSE®