Practice Leader, Nursing Practice & Quality Specialist

The Nursing Practice & Quality Specialist (NPS) for the Adult Acute & Intermediate Care Area serves as a clinical leader and expert resource, focused on advancing safe, high-quality, and evidence-based nursing care across complex adult care settings. This role supports frontline nurses in clinical decision-making, ensures alignment with population-specific standards, and promotes consistent, outcome-driven practice through the development, implementation, and evaluation of nursing policies, procedures, and protocols. The NPS plays a key role in driving improvements in patient outcomes and care quality by contributing to initiatives such as the Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC) Taskforce, accreditation readiness, and system-wide practice enhancements. Additionally, the NPS leads the adoption of new clinical practices and products, supports evidence-informed product decisions, and collaborates with interdisciplinary partners including informatics to ensure nursing practice is effectively integrated into clinical workflows and electronic systems. The PL is accountable for leading the nursing practice environment by supporting clinical nurses engaged in direct patient care, driving practice advances and innovations at the system, unit, service line levels by ensuring the use of evidence and best practice for education and competency, informatics and technology, research, professional development, professional practice foundations + model and quality and safety.