At Houston Methodist, the Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) Lead Staff Registered Nurse (RN) position is responsible for functioning as an advanced clinician, at the Proficient stage of Benner's model of clinical practice This position develops best practices, identifies and leads process and quality improvement initiatives. In addition to fulfilling the duties and responsibilities of a cardiology specialty clinical nurse, the Lead Staff RN serves as a mentor and resource to all team members utilizing skills and knowledge to help train and develop others and achieve optimum performance levels for responsible service line, shift and/or clinics assigned. This position conducts quality assurance audits of staff performance, provides feedback to management on staff performance and ident