Nursing Professional, Development Specialist

Shriners Children's; Galveston (TX); On-site; USD 97,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Shriners Children’s in Galveston, Texas is seeking an NPD Specialist to lead onboarding, competency management, education initiatives, professional role development, and integration of research and evidence-based practice to improve pediatric care. This role focuses on developing and evaluating onboarding programs for nursing and healthcare staff, while advancing competency and ongoing education.

The position emphasizes lifelong learning, staff development, and contributing to quality

Responsibilities

• Develops and evaluates clinical onboarding/orientation programs for nursing and healthcare staff.
• Assesses, measures, documents and supports staff competency, addressing deficiencies.
• Creates, manages, implements, coordinates and evaluates continuing educational activities to close identified knowledge or practice gaps.
• Facilitates lifelong learning to support role maturation, integration, and succession planning.
• Promotes evidence-based practice and quality improvement projects in patient care; may conduct and disseminate findings.

Job description

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family’s ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.

Job Description

• Onboarding/Orientation 20%: Develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates clinical onboarding/orientation programs for nursing & other healthcare personnel.


• Competency Management 20%: Assesses, measures, documents and supports competency, and addresses deficiencies in staff members’ competence.


• Education 20%: Creates, manages, implements, coordinates, and evaluates continuing educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audience developed to achieve specific outcomes to identified gaps in knowledge, skills, or practice.


• Professional Role Development: 20%: Identification and development of strategies to facilitate a continuous process of maturation through lifelong learning that allows for role transition, role integration, skill acquisition and succession planning.


• Research/Evidence-based Practice/Quality Improvement (QI) 20%: Promotes and integrates the science of NPD specialty to continuously improve practice. In addition, promotes research, EBP, QI in patient care settings. NPD Specialist may conduct, encourage, participate in research, EBP, QI, including dissemination of findings.

The pay range for this position is $107,719.04 - $161,578.56. Compensation is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.