Nurse Education & Professional Practice Leader

University Medical Center; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

University Medical Center in Louisville, KY, seeks an RN - Nursing Professional Development (NPD) 1 to collaborate with leadership and the Professional Development Department. The role improves nursing practice and patient care through clinical education, competency initiatives, and direct staff support in clinical, classroom, and virtual settings.

The NPD 1 acts as a clinical expert and learning facilitator, shaping standards of care, and engaging in quality improvement and evidence-based

Responsibilities

• Serves as a role model to nursing staff in the delivery of excellent patient care for designated patient populations
• Collaborates with nursing and interdisciplinary colleagues to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate strategies to address complex patient care issues
• Assists staff with clinical decision making and priority setting
• Collaborates with leadership to develop, evaluate, and implement standards of patient care / care planning and professional practice with attention to quality, service, cost effectiveness, comfort, safety, age specific implications, and cultural competence
• Serves as a patient / family advocate, incorporating respect for and acknowledgement of cultural diversity and individual patient needs
• Maintains and integrates current evidenced-based knowledge into educational programming
• Promotes an environment consistent with the core concepts of Patient Centered Care, and demonstration of the core values 40
• Facilitates ongoing education, competency and professional development of the nursing staff and students to meet competency requirements in accordance with departmental objectives and appropriate accreditation standards
• Coordinates orientation of newly hired employees to specified department
• Plans, prepares, and maintains materials for use in competency based educational programs, utilizing current standards, regulations, and evidenced based resources
• Collaborates in the development or modification of patient education materials, as appropriate
• Collaborates with stakeholders to assess learning needs for clinical staff, designs and implements programs and competency strategies to address identified learning needs
• Incorporates principles of adult learning and evidence-based education in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of education and competency programs
• Assists others in developing clinical reasoning skills
• Participates in learning technologies via simulation, LMS, virtual classroom, and multimedia
• Communicates effectively in visual, oral, and written form and demonstrates effective presentation skills
• Facilitates initial provider and renewal courses for BLS, ACLS, PALS and/or NRP as appropriate for area
• Challenges existing practice when not aligned with current best practices

Job description

University Medical Center in Louisville, KY, seeks an RN - Nursing Professional Development (NPD) 1 to collaborate with leadership and the Professional Development Department. The role improves nursing practice and patient care through clinical education, competency initiatives, and direct staff support in clinical, classroom, and virtual settings.

The NPD 1 acts as a clinical expert and learning facilitator, shaping standards of care, and engaging in quality improvement and evidence-based