Clinical Development Specialist - Acute Medicine

Responsibilities

• Serves as a role model of excellence in nursing knowledge and clinical practice.
• Administers staff development programs through needs assessment and implements education and training programs for clinical staff.
• Functions in a leadership role as a clinical expert.
• Develops and implements training and maintains established standards of care through quality improvement activities.
• Maintains unit-specific quality, accreditation, and clinical competency programs.
• Coordinates development and implementation of staff development, orientation, in-service, and other education/training programs.
• Serves as resource for clinical practice, quality initiatives, and regulatory requirements relating to education, competencies, and orientation, including conducting research and otherwise maintaining knowledge of current requirements.
• Assists staff with interpretation as necessary.
• Works with department leadership to assure documentation of staff education and competency.
• Determines competency needs, and continually evaluates staff in order to provide feedback on staff performance to unit leadership.
• Participates in oversight and ongoing education programs related to regulatory standards, evidence-based practice, clinical guidelines, policies and procedures, and quality initiatives.
• Reports variances in compliance to appropriate leadership and facilitates, tracks, and trends improvement of standard processes.
• Relates quality improvement and practice guideline management to annual review and competency requirements.
• Maintains educational resources for staff to include a resource library and audiovisual aids.
• Serves as a resource person for various hospital departments regarding procedure related evidence-based practice, regulatory requirements, and quality initiatives.
• Identifies opportunities to enhance clinical care, compliance with quality and regulatory initiatives, and patient safety, and assists in implementing new processes for improvement.
• Assists with departmental continuous readiness for all regulatory standards.
• Participates in root cause analysis processes.
• Assists in identification of practice patterns and trends, investigation of problems and policy variances, and assists in facilitating team implementation of corrective actions to be taken.
• Participates in hospital-wide committees, task forces, quality improvement teams, clinical pathway teams, and other group activities as assigned.
• Provides educational instruction to staff members on the collection of data.
• Facilitates coordination of unit-based quality data collection.
• Participates in quality indicator and patient outcome data analysis as appropriate.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited school of nursing
• Licensed as a RN in the State of Georgia in good standing without limitations
• Two (2) years of experience as a Registered Professional Nurse (RN)
• Must hold Certified in American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS)
• Visual color acuity depending on the role in specific units
• PREFERRED: Additional Life Support credential (ACLS, PALS, NRP, etc.) or other clinical specialty certifications in specific units