Nursing Professional Practice Consultant, Full Time, Days

Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley • Livermore, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

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. The role integrates clinical expertise with educational leadership to support standardization of care, competency assurance, professional development, and continuous improvement of patient outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university
• 5+ years to 7 years of experience as a registered nurse
• CA Registered Nurse - Valid license as a registered nurse issued by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN).
• BLS - Basic Life Support required.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to influence and collaborate across disciplines and levels of leadership.
• Project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, timelines, and resources; demonstrated change management capabilities.
• Knowledge of evidence-based practice, patient safety, quality improvement methods (e.g., PDSA cycles), and regulatory standards (e.g., Joint Commission, State Board of Nursing, CMS).
• Able to manage time and prioritize effectively; organized and self-driven
• Ability to read, write and understand English language
• Fluency in Microsoft Suite

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in nursing
• 3+ years to 5 years in education, practice development, or quality improvement

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.

Benefits

• Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery. You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective: Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior