Nurse Professional Development Specialist ( Cardiovascular ICU )

About The Job

Candidate must have cardiovascular intensive care experience.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Contributes to the achievement of established department goals and objectives and adheres to department policies, procedures, quality standards, and safety standards.
• Complies with governmental and accreditation regulations.
• Applies teaching techniques that promote critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and decision making and evidence-based practice, incorporating principles of adult learning theory.
• Coaches nurses and other associates.
• Provides feedback to enhance professional nursing practice and professional advancement of nurses and other associates.
• Collaborates with other departments, experts, and leaders both internal and external to MedStar Health to obtain information needed to pursue development of relevant learning programs.
• Serves as a liaison with academic partners and clinical student placements.
• Conducts educational activities that inform, teach, and facilitate adoption of new procedures, technologies, equipment, and patient care trends with continuing education credits where appropriate.
• Captures learning needs through formal and informal approaches to data collection to determine specific education needs of associates.
• Develops evaluation plans and applies evidence-based evaluation systems to determine the effectiveness of educational activities and learning programs.
• Involves learners in the evaluation process.
• Identifies and assesses learning needs and knowledge or skill gaps that require remediation and collaborates with unit leaders to promote critical thinking and competent patient care delivery.
• Maintains knowledge of professional development standards, available evidence, and current trends and innovations in nursing practice, clinical instruction, nursing education, staff development, and use of simulation and learning technologies.
• Pursues ongoing learning and educational opportunities to enhance own practice, knowledge, skills, and competencies.
• Meets identified learning needs of nurses and other associates, fosters lifelong learning, and supports career advancement in a wide-range of nursing specialties.
• Plans and conducts orientation of new personnel to facilitate a new associate's transition to the practice environment and meeting competency assessment requirements in conformance with departmental objectives, regulatory requirements, and accreditation standards.
• Plans and regularly conducts competency validation programs for nursing department associates.
• Offers competency-building activities to enhance associates' educational and experiential learning.
• Supports and participates in the transition to practice of newly licensed nurses using the MedStar Health New to Practice Nurse Residency Program.
• Participates in multidisciplinary quality and service improvement teams as appropriate.
• Participates in meetings, serves on committees, and represents the department and hospital/facility in community outreach efforts as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Education: Master's degree in Clinical Nursing, Nursing Education, or related field required.
• Experience: 3-4 years progressive clinical nursing experience required. Staff development or continuing education experience preferred.
• Licenses and Certifications: RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure in the State of Maryland. required. CPR - Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation (includes BLS and NRP) for healthcare providers from either the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross within 90 Days required. Additional unit/specialty certifications may vary by department or business unit.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Demonstrated high level of clinical competence.
• Effective interpersonal skills including verbal and written communication.
• Basic math skills.
• Basic computer skills preferred.

Pay

This position has a hiring range of USD $42.82 - USD $71.16 /Hr.