Specialist Nursing Professional Development

Responsibilities

• Designs, directs, implements and evaluates educational offerings based on knowledge, skills and learning levels of nursing staff.
• Identifies learning needs and desires of nursing personnel.
• Develops and utilizes appropriate evaluation systems to determine the effectiveness of educational activities.
• Consults with individuals within Nursing and the community regarding professional nursing practice and roles.
• Assists in the development of department specific orientation and competencies. Assists departments in orientation of staff.
• Develops and maintains a cataloging system for tracking and retrieval of all available teaching-learning resources.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Follows Hospital and department policies and procedures with special attention to attendance and punctuality, confidentiality, dress code and display of ID badge, and safety.
• Completes mandatory education and training in order to maintain organization and department-specific competencies and requirements.
  
  

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing required.
• Master’s Degree strongly preferred.
• Master’s Degree in Nursing with a non-nursing Bachelor’s degree is acceptable.
  
  

Certifications

• Current state licensure as Registered Nurse (RN).
• Certification in specialty preferred.
  
  

Complexity Of Work

• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
  
  

Work Experience

• Minimum two years recent nursing experience required with demonstrated clinical expertise to include clinical nursing experience, preceptor, BCLS instructor or ACLS instructor.
• Demonstrated knowledge of education methodology such as needs assessment, curriculum development, instructional design and principles of adult learning.
• Presentation skills required.
  
  

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 (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) 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.
• Note: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.
  
  

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