Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist (RN) - Nursing Administration - Days
VCU Health · Richmond, VA · 1 mo ago
Healthcare$78k–$134k/yrFull-time
We need to output only HTML fragment, no html/body tags. Use for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Include sections only if posting has real specific content. We have description of role (about the role). Responsibilities: many statements. Requirements: maybe education, licensing, experience. Qualifications: maybe preferred education, certifications. Skills: maybe knowledge, skills, abilities. Benefits: none given. Pay: compensation range given. Schedule: none given (maybe travel but not schedule). So we will include About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Pay. No Benefits or Schedule.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate like EEO etc. Also remove duplicated lines. Ensure we preserve all substantive info.
We need to format lists with
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Include sections only if posting has real specific content. We have description of role (about the role). Responsibilities: many statements. Requirements: maybe education, licensing, experience. Qualifications: maybe preferred education, certifications. Skills: maybe knowledge, skills, abilities. Benefits: none given. Pay: compensation range given. Schedule: none given (maybe travel but not schedule). So we will include About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Pay. No Benefits or Schedule.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate like EEO etc. Also remove duplicated lines. Ensure we preserve all substantive info.
We need to format lists with - . Use
for prose.
We'll create sections:
About the role
... description ...
Responsibilities
- ... each essential job statement ...
We need to extract essential job statements from "Essential Job Statements" list. They are many bullet-like sentences. We'll list each as - .
Then
Requirements
maybe includes Required Education, Licensing/Certification Required, Minimum Qualifications Years and Type of Required Experience, Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required (N/A - we skip). Also maybe Working Conditions? That's more about conditions, maybe not required. We'll include required education, licensure, experience.
Qualifications
maybe Preferred Education, Licensing/Certification Preferred, Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred, etc.
Skills
maybe Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required (N/A skip) and Preferred, plus mental/sensory, physical demands? Might be better to put physical demands under Skills? But we can include a Skills section for knowledge, skills, abilities preferred and maybe physical demands? However guidelines: Use Skills section for skills. We'll include the "Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred" and maybe mental/sensory and physical demands as skills? Might be okay.
Pay: compensation range.
We must not include placeholder like "N/A". So skip sections that would be empty.
Let's craft.
First, About the role paragraph: combine first paragraph(s) describing role.
We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent. So we need to include details like supports Division/Department/Service Line initiatives utilizing ANPD framework such as Research/EBP/QI, Role Development, Education, Competency Management, Onboarding/Orientation and Regulatory standards, while promoting professional development and enhancing clinical competencies across the care continuum. This role fosters a culture of nursing excellence and promotes the guidance, principles, and best practices outlined by the American Academy of Ambulatory Care (AAACN) and supports continued recognition as a Magnet® organization by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Through collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, medical directors and executive leadership, the role drives evidence-based practice, mitigates systemic risks, and fosters a culture of continuous improvement in healthcare delivery. The Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist plays a pivotal role in ensuring the effective implementation of organizational policies, procedures, and guidelines within ambulatory clinic settings. The Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist serves as the clinical and educational subject matter expert for ambulatory clinical practice, ensuring consistent care delivery, competency assurance, regulatory compliance, medication safety, emergency readiness, and scope‑of‑practice integrity. This position supports staff development and empowerment through structured onboarding, orientation, and ongoing professional growth initiatives. Additionally, the Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist oversees resource management to drive optimal clinical outcomes, with a strong focus on quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
That's a lot but we can keep as paragraph.
Responsibilities: list each essential job statement.
Let's extract them:
- Provides expert consult of Division/Department/Service Line guideline development, setting of practice standards within the confines of organizations/divisions/clinics’ mission, goals and objectives.
- Conduct systematic learning needs assessments across ambulatory clinics to identify competency gaps, emerging practice trends, and ensure regulatory requirement preparedness.
- Build competency-based pathways for clinical support roles to align with national ambulatory standards and internal credentialing.
- Serve as the ambulatory clinical subject matter expert for the service line; reduce practice variation while allowing for site‑specific operational needs.
- Translate quality and safety data (patient experience, harm events) into targeted learning and process interventions; track trends to identify opportunities and show improvement.
- Provides strategic oversight of multiple ambulatory clinics across division/department/service line and geographic regions, maintaining a consistent and visible presence to foster staff engagement, assess clinical workflows, and ensure compliance with organizational policies and regulatory standards.
- Collaborates with clinic leaders on the development and implementation of standing orders, clinical protocols, policies, and practice guidelines that support and advance nursing practice.
- Facilitates education, dissemination, and integration of these standards to ensure consistent, evidence-based care across clinical settings.
- Partners with local leadership to develop and maintain organization-wide documentation that promotes clinical excellence and empowers all team members to practice at the highest level of their licensure and scope.
- Serve as a resource to shared governance councils and various committees to align educational and practice priorities.
- Partners with site clinic leaders and Ambulatory Emergency Response Committee to support emergency readiness requirements and staff competency expectations to include medical emergency response standards, equipment, and emergency medications.
- Participate in regulatory surveys and readiness activities; support corrective action plans related to nursing practice and education.
- Partners with local leadership to manage and monitor onboarding documentation and progress for new team members.
- Maintain accurate education records, competency attestations, and regulatory compliance documentation.
- Partner with Division/Department/Service Line stakeholders to support standardization of evidence-based patient education practices across sites to ensure accuracy, consistency, health literacy, and cultural responsiveness.
- Educate nursing staff on effective teach‑back techniques and documentation standards.
- Collaborates in the development and execution of ambulatory clinical initiatives that align with and advance the VCU Health System’s mission and long-term goals.
- Actively contributes to enterprise-wide and interdepartmental committees to promote consistent standards of clinical practice and effective communication.
- Fosters a culture of continuous learning by supporting nursing staff in professional advancement through programs such as Professional Advancement Program, specialty certifications, and academic progression.
Also there is "Patient Population: Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide equitable care appropriate to the age of the patients served on their assigned unit." That could be part of responsibilities or maybe a separate but we can include as responsibility.
Now Requirements:
- Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in nursing. Must be enrolled in a master’s degree program at the time of application and must be complete within 36 months of hire. Special consideration will be given for applicants enrolled in Baccalaureate to Doctoral programs who will not attain Master’s Degree and may require longer than 36 months to complete the terminal.
- Preferred Education: Master’s degree in nursing or a related field. If the master’s degree is not in Nursing, then it is required to have a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing.
- Licensure/Certification Required: Current RN licensure in Virginia or eligible or compact state, AHA BLS certification or equivalent
- Licensure/Certification Preferred: Certification in NPD or specialty area, AHA BLS Instructor or equivalent
- Minimum Qualifications Years and Type of Required Experience: 5 years nursing experience required; Two (2) years of current staff development or health care education experience.
- Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required: N/A (skip)
- Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred: Preferred Experience in staff education and professional development (orientation, preceptorship, in-services education, etc.) Academic health care experience Education/training
We could put preferred experience under Skills or Qualifications. We'll treat Qualifications as preferred education, certifications, preferred experience.
Skills: maybe include mental/sensory, physical demands, working conditions? But we can put mental/sensory and physical demands under Skills.
Let's extract mental/sensory and physical demands:
Physical Demands: Lifting/ Carrying (0-50 lbs.), Push/ Pull (0-50 lbs.), Stoop, Kneel, Squat, Climbing, Bending Work Position: Sitting, Walking, Standing Additional Physical Requirements/ Hazards Physical Requirements: Manual dexterity (eye/hand coordination), Hear alarms/telephone/tape recorder, Reach above shoulder, Repetitive arm/hand movements, Finger Dexterity, Color Vision, Acuity – far, Acuity – near Hazards: Depth perception, Use of Latex Gloves, Exposure to toxic/caustic/chemicals/detergents, Exposure to moving mechanical parts, Exposure to dust/fumes, Exposure to potential electrical shock, Exposure to x ray/electromagnetic energy, Exposure to high pitched noises, Gaseous risk exposure Mental/Sensory – Emotional Mental/Sensory: Strong Recall, Reasoning, Problem Solving, Hearing, Speak Clearly, Write Legibly, Reading, Logical Thinking Emotional: Fast pace environment, Steady Pace, Able to Handle Multiple Priorities, Frequent and Intense Customer Interactions, Noisy Environment, Able to Adapt to Frequent Change
We can include these as Skills.
Pay: Compensation Range $78,250.00 - $133,578.00 Actual salary offers will be based on several key factors to include relevant work experience, credentials, and qualifications.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only.
We'll structure:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- ...
...
Qualifications
- ...
...
Skills
- ...
...
Pay
...
We must not include empty sections.
Check that we didn't include any boilerplate like EEO etc.
Now craft the content precisely.
Let's write About the role paragraph: combine the initial description.
I'll write:
The Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist supports Division/Department/Service Line initiatives utilizing the Association for Nursing Professional Development (ANPD) framework such as Research/EBP/QI, Role Development, Education, Competency Management, Onboarding/Orientation and Regulatory standards, while promoting professional development and enhancing clinical competencies across the care continuum. This role fosters a culture of nursing excellence and promotes the guidance, principles, and best practices outlined by the American Academy of Ambulatory Care (AAACN) and supports continued recognition as a Magnet® organization by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Through collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, medical directors and executive leadership, the role drives evidence-based practice, mitigates systemic risks, and fosters a culture of continuous improvement in healthcare delivery. The Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist plays a pivotal role in ensuring the effective implementation of organizational policies, procedures, and guidelines within ambulatory clinic settings. The Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist serves as the clinical and educational subject matter expert for ambulatory clinical practice, ensuring consistent care delivery, competency assurance, regulatory compliance, medication safety, emergency readiness, and scope‑of‑practice integrity. This position supports staff development and empowerment through structured onboarding, orientation, and ongoing professional growth initiatives. Additionally, the Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist oversees resource management to drive optimal clinical outcomes, with a strong focus on quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
Now Responsibilities list each essential job statement plus Patient Population.
We'll create - for each.
Let's list them:
1. Provides expert consult of Division/Department/Service Line guideline development, setting of practice standards within the confines of organizations/divisions/clinics’ mission, goals and objectives.
2. Conduct systematic learning needs assessments across ambulatory clinics to identify competency gaps, emerging practice trends, and ensure regulatory requirement preparedness.
3. Build compet
for prose. We'll create sections:
About the role
... description ...
Responsibilities
- ... each essential job statement ...
Requirements
maybe includes Required Education, Licensing/Certification Required, Minimum Qualifications Years and Type of Required Experience, Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required (N/A - we skip). Also maybe Working Conditions? That's more about conditions, maybe not required. We'll include required education, licensure, experience.Qualifications
maybe Preferred Education, Licensing/Certification Preferred, Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred, etc.Skills
maybe Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required (N/A skip) and Preferred, plus mental/sensory, physical demands? Might be better to put physical demands under Skills? But we can include a Skills section for knowledge, skills, abilities preferred and maybe physical demands? However guidelines: Use Skills section for skills. We'll include the "Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred" and maybe mental/sensory and physical demands as skills? Might be okay. Pay: compensation range. We must not include placeholder like "N/A". So skip sections that would be empty. Let's craft. First, About the role paragraph: combine first paragraph(s) describing role. We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent. So we need to include details like supports Division/Department/Service Line initiatives utilizing ANPD framework such as Research/EBP/QI, Role Development, Education, Competency Management, Onboarding/Orientation and Regulatory standards, while promoting professional development and enhancing clinical competencies across the care continuum. This role fosters a culture of nursing excellence and promotes the guidance, principles, and best practices outlined by the American Academy of Ambulatory Care (AAACN) and supports continued recognition as a Magnet® organization by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Through collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, medical directors and executive leadership, the role drives evidence-based practice, mitigates systemic risks, and fosters a culture of continuous improvement in healthcare delivery. The Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist plays a pivotal role in ensuring the effective implementation of organizational policies, procedures, and guidelines within ambulatory clinic settings. The Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist serves as the clinical and educational subject matter expert for ambulatory clinical practice, ensuring consistent care delivery, competency assurance, regulatory compliance, medication safety, emergency readiness, and scope‑of‑practice integrity. This position supports staff development and empowerment through structured onboarding, orientation, and ongoing professional growth initiatives. Additionally, the Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist oversees resource management to drive optimal clinical outcomes, with a strong focus on quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. That's a lot but we can keep as paragraph. Responsibilities: list each essential job statement. Let's extract them: - Provides expert consult of Division/Department/Service Line guideline development, setting of practice standards within the confines of organizations/divisions/clinics’ mission, goals and objectives. - Conduct systematic learning needs assessments across ambulatory clinics to identify competency gaps, emerging practice trends, and ensure regulatory requirement preparedness. - Build competency-based pathways for clinical support roles to align with national ambulatory standards and internal credentialing. - Serve as the ambulatory clinical subject matter expert for the service line; reduce practice variation while allowing for site‑specific operational needs. - Translate quality and safety data (patient experience, harm events) into targeted learning and process interventions; track trends to identify opportunities and show improvement. - Provides strategic oversight of multiple ambulatory clinics across division/department/service line and geographic regions, maintaining a consistent and visible presence to foster staff engagement, assess clinical workflows, and ensure compliance with organizational policies and regulatory standards. - Collaborates with clinic leaders on the development and implementation of standing orders, clinical protocols, policies, and practice guidelines that support and advance nursing practice. - Facilitates education, dissemination, and integration of these standards to ensure consistent, evidence-based care across clinical settings. - Partners with local leadership to develop and maintain organization-wide documentation that promotes clinical excellence and empowers all team members to practice at the highest level of their licensure and scope. - Serve as a resource to shared governance councils and various committees to align educational and practice priorities. - Partners with site clinic leaders and Ambulatory Emergency Response Committee to support emergency readiness requirements and staff competency expectations to include medical emergency response standards, equipment, and emergency medications. - Participate in regulatory surveys and readiness activities; support corrective action plans related to nursing practice and education. - Partners with local leadership to manage and monitor onboarding documentation and progress for new team members. - Maintain accurate education records, competency attestations, and regulatory compliance documentation. - Partner with Division/Department/Service Line stakeholders to support standardization of evidence-based patient education practices across sites to ensure accuracy, consistency, health literacy, and cultural responsiveness. - Educate nursing staff on effective teach‑back techniques and documentation standards. - Collaborates in the development and execution of ambulatory clinical initiatives that align with and advance the VCU Health System’s mission and long-term goals. - Actively contributes to enterprise-wide and interdepartmental committees to promote consistent standards of clinical practice and effective communication. - Fosters a culture of continuous learning by supporting nursing staff in professional advancement through programs such as Professional Advancement Program, specialty certifications, and academic progression. Also there is "Patient Population: Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide equitable care appropriate to the age of the patients served on their assigned unit." That could be part of responsibilities or maybe a separate but we can include as responsibility. Now Requirements: - Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in nursing. Must be enrolled in a master’s degree program at the time of application and must be complete within 36 months of hire. Special consideration will be given for applicants enrolled in Baccalaureate to Doctoral programs who will not attain Master’s Degree and may require longer than 36 months to complete the terminal. - Preferred Education: Master’s degree in nursing or a related field. If the master’s degree is not in Nursing, then it is required to have a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing. - Licensure/Certification Required: Current RN licensure in Virginia or eligible or compact state, AHA BLS certification or equivalent - Licensure/Certification Preferred: Certification in NPD or specialty area, AHA BLS Instructor or equivalent - Minimum Qualifications Years and Type of Required Experience: 5 years nursing experience required; Two (2) years of current staff development or health care education experience. - Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required: N/A (skip) - Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred: Preferred Experience in staff education and professional development (orientation, preceptorship, in-services education, etc.) Academic health care experience Education/training We could put preferred experience under Skills or Qualifications. We'll treat Qualifications as preferred education, certifications, preferred experience. Skills: maybe include mental/sensory, physical demands, working conditions? But we can put mental/sensory and physical demands under Skills. Let's extract mental/sensory and physical demands: Physical Demands: Lifting/ Carrying (0-50 lbs.), Push/ Pull (0-50 lbs.), Stoop, Kneel, Squat, Climbing, Bending Work Position: Sitting, Walking, Standing Additional Physical Requirements/ Hazards Physical Requirements: Manual dexterity (eye/hand coordination), Hear alarms/telephone/tape recorder, Reach above shoulder, Repetitive arm/hand movements, Finger Dexterity, Color Vision, Acuity – far, Acuity – near Hazards: Depth perception, Use of Latex Gloves, Exposure to toxic/caustic/chemicals/detergents, Exposure to moving mechanical parts, Exposure to dust/fumes, Exposure to potential electrical shock, Exposure to x ray/electromagnetic energy, Exposure to high pitched noises, Gaseous risk exposure Mental/Sensory – Emotional Mental/Sensory: Strong Recall, Reasoning, Problem Solving, Hearing, Speak Clearly, Write Legibly, Reading, Logical Thinking Emotional: Fast pace environment, Steady Pace, Able to Handle Multiple Priorities, Frequent and Intense Customer Interactions, Noisy Environment, Able to Adapt to Frequent Change We can include these as Skills. Pay: Compensation Range $78,250.00 - $133,578.00 Actual salary offers will be based on several key factors to include relevant work experience, credentials, and qualifications. Now we need to output HTML fragment only. We'll structure:About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Qualifications
- ... ...
Skills
- ... ...
Pay
...
We must not include empty sections. Check that we didn't include any boilerplate like EEO etc. Now craft the content precisely. Let's write About the role paragraph: combine the initial description. I'll write:The Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist supports Division/Department/Service Line initiatives utilizing the Association for Nursing Professional Development (ANPD) framework such as Research/EBP/QI, Role Development, Education, Competency Management, Onboarding/Orientation and Regulatory standards, while promoting professional development and enhancing clinical competencies across the care continuum. This role fosters a culture of nursing excellence and promotes the guidance, principles, and best practices outlined by the American Academy of Ambulatory Care (AAACN) and supports continued recognition as a Magnet® organization by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Through collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, medical directors and executive leadership, the role drives evidence-based practice, mitigates systemic risks, and fosters a culture of continuous improvement in healthcare delivery. The Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist plays a pivotal role in ensuring the effective implementation of organizational policies, procedures, and guidelines within ambulatory clinic settings. The Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist serves as the clinical and educational subject matter expert for ambulatory clinical practice, ensuring consistent care delivery, competency assurance, regulatory compliance, medication safety, emergency readiness, and scope‑of‑practice integrity. This position supports staff development and empowerment through structured onboarding, orientation, and ongoing professional growth initiatives. Additionally, the Ambulatory Professional Practice Specialist oversees resource management to drive optimal clinical outcomes, with a strong focus on quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
Now Responsibilities list each essential job statement plus Patient Population. We'll create