What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nursing Professional Development Specialist position at Akron Children's?
Full-time, 40 hours/week
Days, Monday-Friday, 8 hours shifts
Onsite
The NPD specialist will adhere to the Scope and Standards of NPD practice and develop tools, theories, skills and knowledge to improve the practice of staff.
Responsibilities
Technical Expertise
FTE: 1.000000
Status: Onsite
Days, Monday-Friday, 8 hours shifts
Onsite
- NPD experience required and NPD certification required within 1st year of hire.
- Position Focus: Workforce Development and Retention.
- Potential responsibilities include partnering with HR and Nursing Leadership to support recruitment and retention initiatives (workforce pipelines and recruitment programs, nurse technician program, career path, mentoring, etc.)
The NPD specialist will adhere to the Scope and Standards of NPD practice and develop tools, theories, skills and knowledge to improve the practice of staff.
Responsibilities
- The NPD specialist advances the profession by contributing to the professional development of others, supporting collaborative relationships and supporting life-long learning.
- Uses the educational design process to bridge the knowledge, skills and practice gaps identified through needs assessment.
- Influences the inter-professional practice and learning environments, the NPD specialty, and the profession of nursing and healthcare through collaboration with leadership in planning and decision making to achieve desired results.
- Actively works to transform processes at all levels through inspiration, initiation, adoption and sustainment of and adaptation to change using project management and improvement processes.
- Promotes the generation and dissemination of new knowledge and the use of evidence to advance NPD practice, guide clinical practice and improve patient care.
- Actively supports, promotes, and demonstrates nursing professional development as a nursing practice specialty through promotion of research, EBP, and QI.
- Supports the transitions of nurses and other healthcare team members across learning and practice environments, roles and professional stages.
- Other duties as required.
Technical Expertise
- Experience in project management with interdisciplinary team is required.
- Experience in data analysis and presentations is required.
- Experience working with all levels within an organization is required.
- Experience in healthcare is preferred.
- Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required.
- Education: Master’s degree in Nursing. Completion of Nurse Education track of MSN program is preferred.
- Certification: Registered Nurse licensure is required; BLS certification is required; PALS certification may be required by area of service. Nursing Professional Development certification required within first year.
- Years of relevant experience: 5 to 7 years is preferred. Years of nursing professional development: minimum 1 year required.
- Years of experience supervising: None.
FTE: 1.000000
Status: Onsite
