Nursing Professional Development Specialist - NICU

Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters; Norfolk (VA); Presencial; USD 85.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Nursing Professional Development Specialist (NPDS) at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in Virginia collaborates with department leadership to support clinical education across Patient Care Services. The NPDS ensures that practice changes and educational outcomes are measurable and aligned with program design.

The role acts as a learning facilitator, mentor, and change agent, developing activities to close gaps, guiding onboarding, and supporting transitions with evidence-based

Formación

• Master of Science in Nursing required; internal BSN may be considered with applicable experience.
• Registered Nurse license in Virginia or compact state.
• NPD Certification required within 3 years of placement.

Responsabilidades

• Develops educational activities to address practice gaps for clinical staff.
• Plans interventions using learning theory and motivation.
• Implements programs with evidence-based guidelines and CHA improvement framework.
• Coordinates orientation/onboarding and evaluates competency.
• Acts as mentor and change agent to support practice transitions.

Conocimientos

Educational program development

Learning management systems

Public speaking

Team collaboration

Educación

Master of Science in Nursing

RN license Virginia or compact

Herramientas

Microsoft Office

Learning Management System

Descripción del empleo

• The Nursing Professional Development Specialist (NPDS) works under the direction of department leadership, and collaboratively with stakeholders and others in leadership to support clinical employee education within Patient Care Services and across the health system as indicated. The NPDS is responsible for assuring that practice changes and educational outcomes are measurable and are in alignment with the design and planning of programming. They serve as a learning facilitator, change agent, mentor, leader, champion for inquiry, advocate for NPD Specialty, and partner for practice transitions. The NPDS works with leadership and stakeholder representatives to ensure compliance with federal and state regulations and corporate/hospital policy. Reports to departmental leadership.
• ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Education: Develops educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences, to include licensed and non-licensed healthcare personnel. These activities are developed to achieve specific outcomes related to identified deficits or opportunities for improvement in knowledge, skill, or practice.
• Planning: Determines appropriate interventions incorporating theories pertaining to learning, behavioral change, and motivation.
• Implementation: Demonstrates use of current evidence-based education guidelines (adult learning theory, brain-based learning, etc.) during implementation of educational programs. Uses the CHKD improvement framework in the implementation of system-wide programs and projects to continuously improve programs.
• Orientation/Onboarding: Develops, coordinates, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel to guide the new hire towards job competency.
• Competency Management: Supports ongoing assessment and evaluation of performance. Collaborates with unit leadership teams in prioritizing competency selection and selection of instructional strategies to meet learning objectives.
• Change Agent
• Establish collaborative partnerships and promote environment that can sustain change: Assesses staff and stakeholder readiness to change. Communicates opportunity for change to staff. Promotes a culture in which staff understand the direct relationship between their role and the business of the organization. Motivates staff to take ownership of change. Collaborates with leadership and stakeholders to support change.
• Assessment of Practice Gaps: Prioritizes department, and health system needs aligning hospital initiatives and environmental scanning in the community, and at the state and national level to prioritize and address practice gaps.
• Identification of Learning Needs: Assesses knowledge, skill, and practice gaps within departments, differentiating between practice gaps, performance issues, and process/system issues.
• Outcomes Identification: Ensures realistic, achievable outcomes that are created in collaboration with key stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Advocate for Professional Role Development:
• Mentor/Leader: Serves as a role model and promotes a healthy work environment, professionalism, and just culture. Collaborates with interprofessional partners to share expertise in planning and decision making to achieve the desired results to deliver the highest quality of care.
• Advocate for the NPD Specialty. Promotes and integrates the science of the NPD specialty to continuously improve their practice.
• Partner for Practice Transitions
• Support effective and efficient practice transitions. Identifies and develops strategies to facilitate lifelong learning. This allows for role transition, role integration, skill acquisition, and mastery as learners advance from novice to expert in their professions and specialties. Supports the development, maintenance, and expansion of transition to practice based on evidence and measurable outcomes.
• Champion for Inquiry
• Evidence Based Practice/Quality Improvement: Champions inquiry through promotion of EBP and QI in patient care settings. In collaboration with leadership and the EVMS IRB affiliate, the NPDS may conduct, encourage, facilitate and/or participate in EBP and QI, including dissemination of findings.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.
• LICENSES AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
• Required Licenses and/or Certifications
• Registered Nursing License in the State of Virginia or Registered Nurse holding a valid Compact State license.
• Certification in Nursing Professional Development (NPD) required within 3 years of placement into position.
• Basic Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support required and/or must be obtained within 45 days of hire.
• MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
• Required Education and Experience
• Master of Science in Nursing required. May consider a BSN for internal nurse candidates with applicable experience and active enrollment in a master’s program who are within 1 year of completion from date of hire.
• 1-2 years of relevant pediatric/neonatal clinical experience required.
• Preferred Education and Experience
• Experience in a pediatric nursing professional development role or as nurse educator preferred.
• Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Knowledge of current and emerging trends in technology, including maintenance of databases and records, to support learning.
• Ability to coordinate and provide education and training to staff from different professional backgrounds.
• Ability to work independently and problem solve, as well as accept guidance and work within a team.
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to build collegial and professional relationships from diverse backgrounds.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, to include public speaking.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and ability to utilize Excel and Adobe acrobat.
• Must obtain knowledge and understanding required to utilize learning management system within 3 months of hire.
• WORKING CONDITIONS
• Expected to work in a patient care environment with minimal exposure to environmental hazards such as, but not limited to, excessive noise, dust, or extremes in temperatures. Exposure to communicable diseases and moderately adverse working conditions due to the need to perform certain patient care activities can be expected.
• PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
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