Nurse Prof Dev Educator Specialist

About the role

The Clinical Nurse Professional Development Educator Advanced at Wellstar works collaboratively to assess, identify, plan, implement, coordinate, facilitate, and evaluate educational activities through a systems model. This includes leading staff, leadership, faculty, and researchers to implement and evaluate professional development programs that influence professional role competence, continuous learning and growth, and patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Assessment Practice Gaps: Conducts, analyzes, and synthesizes data to determine learning needs of the target audience.
• Validation of Needs: Validates identified needs with learner, content experts, and nurse leaders when appropriate.
• Prioritization: Prioritizes anticipated needs in alignment with system strategic goals.
• Outcomes: Identified outcomes for learning activities and programs reflect professional role competence, learning and change.
• Planning: Establishes a plan that prescribes strategies, alternatives, and resources to achieve expected outcomes.
• Implementation: Implements the educational plan.
• Coordination: Coordinates the education.
• Facilitation: Facilitates positive learning.
• Evaluation: Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.
• Teamwork and Shared Leadership: Consults, involves learners and stakeholders in decision making, establishes partnerships, serves as clinical resource, engages colleagues in lifelong learning activities, facilitates and supports performance improvement, and participates in shared governance.
• Professional Development: Ensures patient/family/staff confidentiality, serves as a preceptor, participates in educational activities, applies standards, seeks experiences to develop competence, and seeks professional certification.
• Creative Innovations: Promotes evidence-based practice, nursing research, and performance improvement; participates in activities such as value analysis; writes, publishes, presents, and participates in external activities; upholds health care system/organizational policies and standards; collects data, addresses practice questions, integrates ethics, develops innovative solutions, and secures resources and technology for professional development initiatives.
• Clinical Resources and Support: Performs the Nursing Process, coordinates care, completes assessments, documentation, and competency assessments, and supports clinical care.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelors Nursing or Masters Nursing.
• Licenses: RN - Reg Nurse (Single State) or RN-COMPACT - RN - Multi-state Compact, BLS - Basic Life Support or ARC-BLS - Amer Red Cross Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor.
• Additional Licenses: ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 180 Days Preferred or ACLS-I - ACLS - Instructor within 180 Days Preferred or ACLS-P - ACLS - Provisional within 180 Days Preferred and NRP - Neonatal Resuscitation Prvdr within 180 Days Preferred and NRP-I - NRP - Instructor within 180 Days Preferred or PALS - Pediatric Adv Life Support within 180 Days Preferred and PALS-I - PALS - Instructor within 180 Days Preferred or PALS-P - PALS - Provisional within 180 Days Preferred.
• Experience: 5 years experience in related field of nursing, experience with direct patient care preferred.

Qualifications

• Ability to read, write, and speak English language.
• Optimizes the use of technology to support learning.
• Demonstrates emotional intelligence.
• Strong interpersonal, collaborative skills along with customer service skills.
• Able to function in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

• Knowledge of adult learning and instructional design principles.
• Ability to incorporate diverse learners in planning education.
• Collaborates with other disciplines to enhance comprehensiveness of the plan.
• Consults with preceptors/orientees to facilitate completion of orientation.
• Partners with others to effect change and generate positive outcomes.
• Engages colleagues in the planning and implementation of lifelong learning activities.
• Facilitates and supports performance improvement.
• Supports/participates in shared governance at all levels in the system.
• Ensures patient/family/staff confidentiality and corporate compliance.
• Models the professional practice of nursing and creates a healthy work environment.
• Applies current standards, guidelines, policies, and regulations into education.
• Seeks experiences to develop, maintain, and improve competence in nursing professional development.
• Seeks professional certification and academic appointment when eligible.
• Upholds all health care system/organizational policies and procedures and clinical competencies put forth by this job description and professional association including legal, regulatory and accreditation requirements and standards.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD