We Link Professional Role Competency

To Error/Risk Reduction, Patient Safety and Improving Outcomes

OUR SERVICES

Measuring and Monitoring Professional Role Competency

It’s hard to build a roadmap to excellence when you don’t know your starting point. Measuring and monitoring professional role competency provides you with an evidence-based approach that guides practice development. Organizations, teams, and individuals invested in developing their professional role competency can improve the quality of the conversation at the bedside and help build a foundation to a culture where collaboration and excellence succeeds.

PRDG™ Professional Role Development Guide

Our online professional role assessment tool provides a systematic and reliable way to measure your workforce’s professional role competency and re-energize their passion for nursing.

Measuring professional role competency can help organizations gain

• A complete picture of the role competency of their workforce
• Momentum for a shift from task-based to role-based practice
• Support interdisciplinary collaboration and impact excellent outcomes
• Data to measure the success of your professional practice model
• Role competency levels broken down by individual, unit, shift, and organization
• Data to identify targeted staff development plans and education programs

myPRDG™ Guide for Individual Users

A wonderful resource for new graduates, nurses in a job search, or seasoned professionals interested in gaining a deeper understanding of their professional role competency.

Practice Excellence Starts with You

• Identify your level of professional role expertise
• Proactively engage in personal professional development plans
• Link quality, role responsibility, and practice
• Celebrate role clarity, clear communication, autonomy, and decision making

Professional Role Development Programs and Workshops

We partner with organizations and teams to transform practice culture by enhancing their ability to develop and sustain a data-driven and evidence-based practice on the foundation of Professional Practice Excellence.

Our programs can be designed to meet specific needs on both organizational and team levels, inspiring leadership and professionals looking to renew their passion for the power and beauty of professional nursing by deepening their understanding of what it takes to build professional role competency.

• Online Role Competency Assessments and Annual Evaluations
• Coach and Manager Development Programs
• Professional Role Development Coaching and Workshops
• Ongoing Educational Resource Center

Improve the quality of the conversation at the bedside and become an active leader in building the foundation to a culture where collaboration and excellence succeeds. Contact us at info@rolebasedpractice.com or 415.461.1433 for more information about our services.

The Client Experience

”Working with Maria O’Rourke has energized our leadership group and increased the professional role competence, confidence, decision-making, critical thinking skills and patient advocacy of our staff. We’ve incorporated this work into the infrastructure of our organization, and it’s serving as a foundation for our Journey to Magnet.“

Joan P. Smith, RN, MPA, NEA-BC
Director, Center for Nursing Excellence
Santa Clara Medical Center