Clinical Professional Development Specialist III - Progressive Care Units - RMC

Presbyterian Healthcare Services; Rio Rancho (NM); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition reimbursement

Loan forgiveness

Malpractice insurance

On-site wellness program

Staff safety wearable badge

Job summary

Presbyterian Healthcare Services in New Mexico seeks a Clinical Education Specialist responsible for design, delivery and evaluation of nursing education across the system. You will co-lead educational initiatives, support staff development, and partner with nursing leadership to close practice gaps and improve patient outcomes.

You will apply evidence-based teaching, utilize EPIC for training analytics, mentor staff, and drive program evaluation from design to impact across multiple facilities.

Qualifications

• Licensure: State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License.
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing is required; Master's degree in Nursing, Nursing Education, Education, Instructional Design, Business, Leadership, Informatics, Administration or equivalent is required/preferred.
• Specialty certifications in nursing, informatics, education or equivalent certification preferred.
• Maintains current training in emergency response: BLS, ACLS, PALS, NRP, TNCC (depending on area).

Responsibilities

• Educator: Develops educational activities based on needs assessments and uses instructional design, training delivery, learning technologies and evaluation methods.
• Performance Evaluator: Analyzes performance gaps and develops remediation plans with management.
• Clinical Practitioner: Coaches to resolve practice issues and implement evidence-based changes.
• Consultant/Collaborator: Engages teams to solve workflow problems through data analysis and action plans.
• Researcher: Incorporates evidence into practice and may participate in IRB-related activities.

Skills

Clinical education

Interprofessional collaboration

Educational design

Performance evaluation

Project management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Master's Degree in Nursing, Nursing Education, Education, Instructional Design, Business, Leadership, Informatics, Administration or equivalent

Tools

EPIC EMR

Job description

Location Address

2400 Unser Blvd SE Rio Rancho, NM 87124

Compensation Pay Range

Minimum Offer $0.00 Maximum Offer $0.00

Summary

• Serves as educator, consultant, researcher, instructional and evaluation designer, clinical practice expert, and interprofessional collaborator supporting the clinical development needs of staff throughout the PHS enterprise
• Supports the educational components of the organizations clinical initiatives and practices

How You Grow, Learn And Thrive Matters Here.

• Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
• Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
• Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
• Malpractice liability insurance
• Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
• EPIC electronic charting system

Type of Opportunity

Full time FTE: 1.00 Job Exempt: Yes Work Shift: Weekday Schedule Monday-Friday (United States of America)

Responsibilities

• Educator: Provides educational activities based on learning needs assessments, utilizing the right instructional design, training delivery, learning technology, and evaluation methodology to provide learning opportunities with high impact.
  • Independently drives learning / performance needs assessment
  • Collaborates in the identification of target audience performance needs/gaps
  • Defines the performance gap objectives and partners with management to achieve agreement on approach to bridge the gap
  • Creates optimal, budget-conscious instructional design to achieve performance objectives
  • Incorporates evidence-based data to structure instructional design and performance content
  • Drives the implementation of educational content/program in collaboration with management and team members
  • Builds the approach, deployment, collection, analysis and reporting of educational program effectiveness
  • Designs new programs to meet organizational strategic objectives
  • At the elbow support for team and clinical staff in informatics systems
• Performance Evaluator: Applies a systematic process for analyzing human performance or practice gaps and develops and implements a plan to effectively close the gaps.
  • Builds and implements Levels 1-4 evaluation tools to measure satisfaction, learning, and transfer to performance based upon performance objectives
  • Partners with management to assess clinical performance gaps and build remediation action plans
• Clinical Practitioner: Acts as a role model for high standards of practice, coaches to resolve practice issues or foster professional growth, and implements evidence-based practice changes to improve patient outcomes or enhance staff knowledge and skills.
  • Role models and coaches in the moment at the point of care
  • Role models highest specialty standards
  • Mentors others in evidence-based-practice to enhance practice
  • Organizes and deploys clinical practice leaders in partnership with management
• Consultant / Collaborator: Engages intra- and interprofessional groups in practice or process/workflow-related problem-solving through data analysis, development of an action plan, consensus and commitment building, and incorporation and evaluation of changes.
  • Works and mentors team members within Clinical Education team and nursing management to accelerate clinical performance
  • Initiates and/or supporting changes in practice through the clinical governance process
  • Participates and leads in local, state and/or national committees, specialty groups
• Researcher: Incorporates a problem-solving approach to produce better patient and/or educational outcomes that incorporates the best evidence, is cost effective, acknowledges patient / learner knowledge, and results in more individualized, streamlined, effective and dynamic nursing care and/or education.
  • Incorporates research into clinical practice; leads research projects
  • Supports, builds, initiates new research to enhance practice
  • May participate in the PHS Institutional Review Board (IRB) Promise and CARES Commitment: Supports, role models, champions, and integrates into assignments behaviors supporting The Promise and CARES Commitments
• Specialty Role Focus: Leads advanced clinical skills and critical thinking related to specialty practice if assigned to a specialty area and area of assignment

Qualifications

• Licensure: State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License
• Academic Preparation:
  • Bachelors Degree in Nursing required; Master s Degree in Nursing, Nursing Education, Education, Instructional Design, Business, Leadership, Informatics, Administration or equivalent degree required.
• Specialty Certifications: Specialty certification in nursing, informatics, education or equivalent certification preferred.
• Professional Requirements/Emergency Response: Maintains current training in following:
  • BLS
  • ACLS, PALS, NRP, TNCC, and other emergency response certification may be required depending upon area of assignment
• Experience: Minimum At least 3 years of clinical care expertise required in clinical specialty

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About Presbyterian Healthcare Services

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Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.

Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.

AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.

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The compensation range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors, including but not limited to experience and training, internal equity, and other business and organizational needs.

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