Nursing Professional Development Specialist

Nursing Professional Development SpecialistThe Nursing Professional Development Specialist at Shriners Hospitals for Children designs, implements, and evaluates educational programs to support the professional growth and competency of nursing staff, ultimately enhancing patient care.Key ResponsibilitiesDevelops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates clinical onboarding/orientation programs for nursing & other healthcare personnel.Assesses, measures, documents and supports competency, and addresses deficiencies in staff members' competence.Creates, manages, implements, coordinates, and evaluates continuing educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audience developed to achieve specific outcomes to identified gaps in knowledge, skills, or practice.Identification and development of strategies to facilitate a continuous process of maturation through lifelong learning that allows for role transition, role integration, skill acquisition and succession planningPromotes and integrates the science of NPD specialty to continuously improve practice. In addition, promotes research, EBP, QI in patient care settings. NPD Specialist may conduct, encourage, participate in research, EBP, QI, including dissemination of findings.Required QualificationsBSN- Bachelor in NursingCurrent CPRCurrent BLSCompensation is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.