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Nursing Professional Development Specialist
| Company | Advocate Health Care |
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| Location | Charlotte, NC, USA |
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| Salary | $43.3 – $64.95 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- Candidates must have BSN and either have or complete an MSN within 3 years of hire.
- Nursing Professional Development certification required within 1 year of eligibility for professional certification exam.
- Two years of teaching experience required (may be non-academic).
- Two years of pediatric clinical experience required.
Responsibilities
- Assess practice gaps.
- Identify learning needs.
- Identify desired outcomes.
- Establish a plan that prescribes strategies, alternatives, and resources to achieve expected outcomes.
- Implement the plan, coordinate educational initiatives and activities, and facilitate positive learning and practice environment.
- Evaluate progress toward attainment of outcomes.
- Integrate ethics in all areas of practice.
- Maintain current knowledge and competency in nursing and professional development practice.
- Be a champion of scientific inquiry, generating new knowledge and integrating best available evidence into practice.
- Systematically enhance the quality and effectiveness of nursing professional development practice.
- Act as a change agent.
- Provide leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
- Collaborate with interprofessional teams, leaders, stakeholders and others to facilitate nursing practice and positive outcomes for consumers.
- Evaluates personal practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, and relevant statutes, rules, and regulation.
- Considers factors related to quality, safety, effectiveness and cost regarding professional development activities and expected outcomes.
- Advance the profession and the specialty through mentoring and contributions to the professional development of others.
- Influences structures, processes and behaviors to improve health and social equity in all interprofessional practice and learning environments.
- Models Atrium Health mission, vision, and values.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) with emphasis in education is preferred.
- Two years of teaching experience preferred.
- Knowledge of adult learning principles, curriculum and program development, program evaluation.
