Nursing Professional Development Practitioner

Job Summary

Job Duties

• Uses educational design process to bridge the knowledge, skills, and practice gaps identified through a need assessment.
• Provides classroom instruction using these techniques and innovative processes.
• Actively works to transform processes through inspiration, initiation, adaptation and sustainment of and adaptation to change using project management and improvement process.
• Provide leadership on unit, councils and committees.
• Influences the inter-professional practice and learning environments in nursing and healthcare.
• Assists others in their professional role development, practice role transitions, and succession planning.
• Professional role development involves identification and development of strategies to facilitate a continuous process of maturation through lifelong learning.
• Promotes the generation and dissemination of new knowledge and the use of evidence to advance the NPD practice, guide clinical practice and improve patient care.
• Actively supports, promotes and demonstrates nursing professional development as a nursing practice specialty.
• Develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts and evaluates onboarding and orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel.
• Provides direct supervision to assigned personnel, assists with orientation and integration of new employees, and builds a sense of pride in employees and promotes good morale.
• Communicates significant issues on units to Operations Manager in a timely manner. Assists Operations Managers by carrying out the process improvement plan and/or educational plan with staff completing documentation of remediation.
• Actively supports the transition of nurses and other healthcare team members across learning and practice environments, roles and professional stages.
• Coordinates the attendance of personnel at internal and external educational programs. Provides ongoing education based on educational needs assessment, unit needs, staff request and management request.
• Develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts and evaluates competency programs. Supervise annual unit-based skills assessment and competency completion.
• Design educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audiences, which may include continuing nursing education, inter-professional continuing education and education for non-licensed healthcare personnel.
• Establish, teach, and evaluate professional development activities.
• Collaborates with Career Enhancement Program Staff in meeting the educational needs of Intermediate Staff.
• Participates in the active mentoring and coaching of Career Enhancement Program staff.
• Participation in research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement activities is expected. Participates in the formulation of nursing policies and goals as well as policies affecting other departments; communicates and interprets policies, procedures, and regulations to patients, visitor and staff members, as required.
• Promotes and supports concepts of positive guest relations.
• Collaborate with partners to share expertise in planning and decision making to achieve the desired results. Frequently involved in academic and practice partnerships.

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.

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