Nursing Professional Development Specialist

About the role

As a Nursing Professional Development Specialist, you will plan, implement and evaluate orientation and the ongoing, professional development of nurses within the Emergency Department (ED) area at Weston Hospital. In this role, you will focus your background and skills in education to facilitate a welcome, encouraging and supportive environment for all caregivers you encounter.

Responsibilities

• Design, direct, implement and evaluate educational offerings based on knowledge, skills and learning levels of nursing staff.
• Identify learning needs and desires of nursing personnel.
• Develop and utilize appropriate evaluation systems to determine the effectiveness of educational activities.
• Consult with individuals within the Nursing Institute and Ambulatory Nursing, CCF and the community regarding professional nursing practice and roles.
• Assist in the development of department specific orientation and competencies.
• Assist departments in orientation of staff.
• Develop and maintain a cataloging system for tracking and retrieval of all available teaching-learning resources.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)
• Two years of recent nursing experience with demonstrated clinical expertise, such as a clinical nursing, preceptor, BCLS or ACLS Instructor.
• Demonstrated knowledge of education methodology, such as needs assessment, curriculum development, instructional design and principles of adult learning
• Presentation skills

Preferred qualifications

• Master's Degree
• Certification in specialty
• Nursing experience in the Emergency Department is strongly preferred.

Schedule

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. OR 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Pay

Minimum Annual Salary: $69,600.00 / Maximum Annual Salary: $106,132.50

Physical requirements

• Requires full range of motion; manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
• Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
• Requires some exposure to communicable diseases or bodily fluids.
• Light Work – Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.