Nurse Scientist

At Houston Methodist the Nurse Scientist position is responsible for leading the development coordination implementation evaluation and dissemination of nursing research activities. This position works closely with the Director and Manager for Nursing Science to strategically plan and outline priority initiatives based on hospital quality measures. The Nurse Scientist position ensures the highest quality of scholarly and scientific activity by Houston Methodist nursing staff. This position serves as a role model and consultant related to the nursing research process and coordinates the IRB approval and grant funding process for nursing research. The Nurse Scientist position promotes and facilitates evidencebased interventions at the bedside a key component for the role

PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Serves as a consultant to nursing leadership executives and nurses to develop implement and sustain evidencebased high impact initiatives. Role models efficient and effective communication to establish and maintain a team environment.

• Promotes supports and facilitates individuals engaging in research activities to advance research in practice: evidencebased practice the conduct of research research utilization and research dissemination. Collaborates and develops innovative programs to educate mentor and enhance the knowledge of nursing staff.

• Serves as an active member of the Research Council. Coordinates guides leads and provides support for council activities and serves as the liaison to the nursing shared governance structure.

• Conducts self in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity equity and inclusion principles. Fosters staff engagement by demonstrating active listening requesting and acknowledging feedback providing rationale when appropriate and supporting organizational goals. Contributes towards improvement of department scores for employee engagement i.e. peertopeer accountability.

SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Facilitates and directs the development of interdepartmental and interprofessional research activities including generating individual and/or group programs of research.

• Encourages and promotes nursing publications in peer reviewed journals.

QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Identifies nursing quality metrics outliers and creates evidencebased nursing interventions for improvement. Supports hospital efforts to improve quality care linking research to improved patient outcomes.

• Plans directs and ensures and sustainability of all initiatives to ensure that the goals of the program are met. In collaboration with the Director develops program outcome measures and monitors for sustainability.

• Conducts investigatorinitiated research that supports and adds to nursings scientific foundation.

FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Seeks research funding through grant application. Assists departments and individual healthcare professionals to apply and obtain such funding for research projects and activities.

• Implements department strategies to achieve financial target and mentors others to do the same optimizing efficiency and other areas according to department specifications.

• Utilizes resources with cost effectiveness and value creation in mind. Selfmotivated to independently manage time effectively and prioritize daily tasks assisting coworkers as needed.

GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Develops initiatives and held accountable for increasing the number of HM nursing research EBP and quality improvement dissemination activities at the national and international level.

• Generates and communicates new ideas to lead teams to creative strategies that improve quality or service and impact entity departments and address organization or department priorities. Analyzes and presents research and quality improvement data.

• Fosters an institutional environment conducive to the conduct of inquiry research and evidencebased practice as evidenced by the number of nursegenerated projects. Seeks opportunities to identify selfdevelopment needs and takes appropriate action. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management. Completes and updates the My Development Plan on an ongoing basis.

This job description is not intended to be allinclusive; 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. EDUCATION

• Bachelors and Masters degree one of which must be in nursing

• Doctoral degree in medical field

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Five years clinical nursing experience

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS REQUIRED

• RN Registered Nurse Texas State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure within 60 days OR
• RNTemp Registered Nurse Temporary State Licensure within 60 days AND
• Magnet ANCC Recognized Certification within 1 year

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

• Sufficient proficiency in speaking reading and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security

• Ability to effectively communicate with patients physicians family members and coworkers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles

• Acts as effective change agent

• Strong assessment organizational and problemsolving skills as evidenced by capacity to prioritize multiple tasks and role components

• Demonstrates expert time management skills

SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS

WORK ATTIRE

• Uniform No
• Scrubs No
• Business professional Yes
• Other (department approved) No

ONCALL*
*Note that employees may be required to be oncall during emergencies (ie. DIsaster Severe Weather Events etc) regardless of selection below.

• On Call* No

TRAVEL**
**Travel specifications may vary by department**

• May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area Yes
• May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area No

Company Profile:

Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital opened in June 2017 as the eighth hospital in the Houston Methodist system. This 267bed 725000squarefoot fullservice acutecare hospital offers many of the same services as our flagship hospital in the Texas Medical Center. Also on the beautiful hospital campus located at the intersection of Interstate 45 and Texas State Highway 242 are two medical office buildings which include a Breast Care Center; Cancer Center; infusion center; heart and vascular services; neurology; orthopedics and sports medicine; rehabilitation services; wellness services; an outpatient laboratory; and several other multispecialty physician practices. In January 2022 Houston Methodist The Woodlands opened Healing Tower a $250 million expansion project that added 106 beds focused on medicalsurgical and womens services and provided nine operating rooms. The project also included the expansion of the endoscopy center emergency department and diagnostic imaging department with an enhanced neurodiagnostic and interventional center.

Houston Methodist is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of women minorities disabled persons and veterans.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Houston Methodist is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal employment opportunity is a sound and just concept to which Houston Methodist is firmly bound. Houston Methodist will not engage in discrimination against or harassment of any person employed or seeking employment with Houston Methodist on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor priority referral Protected Veterans requested.

Remote Work :

No

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