Professional Development Nurse- Critical Care (PT Days)

Job Category Registered Nurse Employee Type Part-Time Description JOB PURPOSE OR MISSION Serve as a frontline leader within a designated area(s) and/or service-line of the organization to operationalize Nursing Professional Development (NPD) roles and responsibilities utilizing innovation as well as futuristic and systems thinking to positively influence and create competent professionals who promote health and deliver high quality patient care. PERFORMANCE CRITERIA CRITERIA A:Everyday Excellence Values - Employee demonstrates Everyday Excellence values in the day-to-day performance of their job. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients and their families, physicians, and the community. Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and vital signs. Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the customer asks. Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm. Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of customers through personal action and attention to the environment of care. Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions and anticipates information needs of customers. CRITERIA B:Corporate Compliance - Employee demonstrates commitment to the Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interests Guidelines, and the GHS Corporate Compliance Guidelines. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal requirements of the position and department. Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational records. Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials; communicates honesty and completely; behaves in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts. CRITERIA C:Personal Achievement - Employee demonstrates initiative in achieving work goals and meeting personal objectives. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments. Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high. Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness. Upholds the ethical standards of the organization. CRITERIA D:Performance Improvement - Employee actively participates in Performance Improvement activities and incorporates quality improvement standards in his/her job performance. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes. Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes. Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Effectively manages time and resources Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization — material, human, and financial. Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes. CRITERIA F:Patient & Employee Safety - Employee actively participates in and demonstrates effective patient and employee safety practices. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and emphasizes patient and employee safety. Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries or potential injuries. Employee demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee safety standards at all times. Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures and plans. JOB FUNCTIONS ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS include, but are not limited to: 1.Demonstrate advanced knowledge of nursing practice and recognize professional development (PD) as a nursing specialty, serving as a resource, change agent, and frontline leader for clinical staff. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Maintains knowledge and skills required to provide and/or ensure high quality patient care delivered to appropriate population(s) served. Maintains working knowledge of health information management systems and ensures appropriate documentation of patient care accordingly. Demonstrates leadership skills needed to build and maintain relationships, work efficiently, and inspire frontline staff. Creates a safe working environment for staff to practice, learn and develop. Provides education on nursing scopes and standards, application of the nursing process, and approved practices per hospital policy and procedures. Evaluates staff effectiveness in providing high quality patient care based on best practices and approved policies and procedures. Contributes to PD of others providing validation, coaching, and mentoring as needed. Demonstrates ability to provide “just in time” learning experiences as needed, by remaining flexible, available and committed to the role of PD nurse. Supports staff lifelong professional learning by encouraging advanced learning, specialty certifications, and providing professional development opportunities. Maintains open communication lines with managers and provides information on critical situations, debriefings, and employee job performance as indicated. Maintain working knowledge of trends in patient care, nursing, and staff development through commitment to lifelong learning (example: professional organization memberships, national certification, committee work). 2.Facilitate comprehensive needs assessments using evidenced based techniques from various sources for individuals, area(s) of practice, and/or service lines, understanding the impact of working dynamics on practice. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Remains knowledgeable of advances in technology that influence data collection. Collects and analyzes data, prioritizing appropriately based on situation while remaining in alignment with organizational goals. Analyzes assessment data to identify potential or actual gaps (example knowledge, skills, and/or practice) or other issues that impact the performance of staff. Differentiates professional development gaps from system or compliance issues and addresses or escalates accordingly. Includes learners and other key stakeholders in formulating measurable, evidence based, context specific outcomes. Documents assessment data and maintain reliable records that are easily accessible upon request. Maintains open communication lines with managers and communicates results of needs assessment as indicated. 3.Facilitate, support, conduct, translate, and/or lead evidence-based initiatives and quality improvement projects aligned with organization’s goals and strategic plan. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Understands the impact of working dynamics on change management. Ensures all initiatives are timely, relevant, and supports optimal care and population health by considering the quality and safety of the healthcare provider, consumer, and/or partner. Learns and utilizes adult learning and educational design principles to prepare content reflective of expected outcomes and current best practices. Demonstrates knowledge of tools, resources, and instruments that are valid, reliable, and evidence based. Utilizes project management and best practice improvement processes to structure collaborative work, promote credibility of project and assist in acceptance of outcomes. Modifies plan and addresses barriers as needed to meet the needs of target audience. Develops, implements, and evaluates processes to sustain change, ensuring departments remain aligned with organization needs. Analyzes documents and disseminates results of evaluation data focused on outcomes of established plans accordingly. Assists with coordinating and facilitating practice transition programs, student experiences, committee participation, and other collaborative partnerships as assigned. Employs strategies to teach and promote wellness in learners as well as provide education to clinical staff on how to teach and promote wellness to other healthcare consumers and/or partners. Collaborates with clinical informatics personnel to maintain ongoing improvements and staff development related to electronic medical record documentation. Demonstrates accurate record keeping of learning activities and initiatives while ensuring data reflects actual event(s) and is easily available upon request. 4.Assist in the development, facilitation, implementation, and evaluation of a holistic orientation program aimed to guide new hires and/or transfers towards job competency in accordance with legal, regulatory, and organization standards. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Demonstrates ability to develop and maintain a meaningful unit or service line-based orientation for new employees and/or transfers, updating materials and processes as needed. Collaborates with other professional development nurses to coordinate orientation activities and learning materials, ensuring continuity, not repetitive learning. Facilitate the completion of competency validations for employees as well as preceptors, ensuring staff are competent to perform his/her job duties. Supports the socialization of new employees to their designated area and oversees the preceptor and orientee relationship throughout the orientation period. Coaches clinical staff in scopes of practice and regulatory readiness accordingly. Assists with training staff in electronic medical record application(s) and required documentation for organizational compliance standards. Maintain reliable and accurate orientation records for clinical staff, ensuring information is easily accessible upon request. Facilitate and monitor staff completion of various skill certifications required for job positions (example: BLS, ACLS, PALS, MOAB, NRP) as indicated. 5.Contributes to the development, facilitation, and evaluation of value-added learning activities to achieve specific outcomes, ultimately resulting in improved patient care, outcomes and experiences. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Creates, supports, and promotes a positive, safe, and healthy work and learning environment for nurses and other team members. Builds and maintains collaborative relationships with interprofessional teams, leaders, stakeholders, and others to facilitate nursing practice, professional development, and positive outcomes by collectively sharing resources and expertise. Plan and develop high quality content for learning activities, ensuring the activity is based on actual or potential professional practice gaps identified. Select and utilize appropriate teaching/learning strategies for learner engagement and effective development experience. Acquire appropriate resources (example: space, audio/visual, presenters), coordinate implementation, and encourage participation of learning activity. Accurately identifies and quantifies outcome parameters for learning activity. Maintains all documentation of offering, including evaluation of outcomes. Shares evaluation results and provides recognition for achievement of expected outcomes or suggestions for improvements as appropriate. Utilizes learning activities to continuously assist in ensuring staff have the appropriate education, training, knowledge, skills, and competence needed to perform their job duties, meet regulatory standards, and maintain requirements of organizational certifications and/or accreditations. 6.Serves as a role model and vital part of the Clinical Education and Professional Development team, representing the organization and department at the micro and/or mesosystem level. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS Understands and maintains working knowledge of laws, regulations, best practices, and clinical guidelines applicable to nursing practice and patient care. Understands and complies with laws and regulations applicable to the nursing specialty of professional development such as confidentiality, competency, record retention, and copyright. Maintains working knowledge of the nursing specialty of professional development through local/state/national professional organization memberships, reading journals and/or books, and attending PD specific workshops and/or conferences. Participates in the development, review, and revision of department, service-line, and/or nursing policies and procedures as directed. Serves as a professional development representative and/or consultant for various committees, workgroups, and regulatory surveys as qualified and directed. Contributes to department success by attending all meetings which promote the growth, collaboration, information and/or resource sharing, and teamwork of the Professional Development Nurses. Works collaboratively and consistently as a member of the PD team to develop, review, and revise the Clinical Education and Professional Development department plan, goals, and outcomes for reporting. Assists with collecting department data, keeping records, and quantification of department goals and outcomes. Serves as a professional development representative and/or consultant for various committees, workgroups, and regulatory surveys as qualified and directed. 7.Performs all other duties as assigned. EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS Two years acute care clinical experience in related area(s) and/or service line if BSN, additional experience required if RN only. Clinical education and/or Professional Development experience preferred Certification in area(s) of nursing practice or professional development preferred EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS Current RN license in state of Louisiana BSN or RN with equivalent work experience HIPAA REQUIREMENTS: Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable HIPAA regulations appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Medical records without limitation both paper and electronic, patient demographics, lab and radiology results, patient information related to surgery or appointment schedules, information related to patient location, religious beliefs and/or public health records. SAFETY REQUIREMENTS: Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable safety practices appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Incident reporting, handling of wastes, sharps and linen, PPE, exposure control plans, hand washing, environment of care, patient identification, administers/collects meds/bloods order, transports/monitors or observes patients with infusion pumps, validates, and monitors clinical alarms. #J-18808-Ljbffr