RN Professional Development Specialist
Company: Beaumont Health
Location: Dearborn
Posted on: May 23, 2023
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Job Description:
* Critical Care experience preferred.
GENERAL SUMMARY:
The NPD-Specialist develops tools, theories, skills and knowledge
to advance the practice of the NPD specialty. Using expertise in
education and professional development practices, the NPD
Practitioner Specialist (NPD-S) functions autonomously and in
collaboration with staff, leadership, faculty and researchers to
develop, implement and evaluate professional development programs
that influence professional role competence, continuous learning
and growth. Promote synergistic practices and patient outcomes
throughout the organization, and advances and leads NPD practice
based on the Beaumont Health Nursing Professional Practice Model
and in accordance with Association Nursing Professional Development
Scope and Standards of Professional Nursing Development Practice.
The essential duties of the NPD-S include the following:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
1. Uses a systematic approach, analyzes issues, forecast trends and
supporting data to determine the learning needs of individuals,
service lines, and organizations. Using data gathered; validates,
prioritizes and documents evidence of professional practice gaps
and outcomes in a manner that facilitates the educational planning
process.
2. Uses relevant evidence, theory, research, innovative processes
and practical experience to design, implement and evaluate high
quality, culturally sensitive, and frequently complex educational
activities, programs, or projects for staff at all stages of their
career development based on identified knowledge and practice gaps.
Analyzes cost and anticipated return on investment for learning
activities, programs or projects.
3. Engages stakeholders and resources in the planning and
implementation of lifelong learning activities for individuals
and/or groups of learners. Measures program outcomes in terms of
learning change, impact and professional role competency and
revises future outcomes based on trends, evidence, and changes in
stakeholder expectations.
4. Evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practices in
collaboration with others to ensure that nursing and the
organization's goals and mission are in alignment. Develops and
applies appropriate measurement tools in quality improvement
activities.
5. Participates in and assists others in professional role
development, practice role transitions, and succession planning.
Collaborates with Community Education programs to facilitate,
coordinate and maintain effective allied health and nursing
education programs. Systematically enhances the quality and
effectiveness of professional development practice and role
transitions. Applies the educational process by selecting education
content, materials, and techniques that can appeal to a diverse
target audience in a positive learning environment. Demonstrates
and applies expertise in educational assessment; planning;
curriculum development; educational design & delivery;
documentation; measurement & performance improvement.
6. Serves as an influential leader in inter-professional learning,
professional growth, and practice change throughout the
organization.
7. Acts as a champion of scientific inquiry, generating new
knowledge and integrating best available evidence into practice.
Conducts, encourages, facilitates and/or participates in research,
EBP, and QI, including dissemination of findings locally and
nationally.
8. Integrates ethics by analyzing factors related to privacy,
security, and confidentiality in the use and handling of records
related to educational programs. Develops processes for monitoring
the integrity of educational activities including screening for
potential and unethical behavior, commercial bias, conflict of
interest. Identifies and addresses ethical issues within the
learning environment.
9. Serves on one or more functional teams accountable for
supporting core BH orientation and continuing education
activities.
10. Works collaboratively with leaders, clinical and other experts,
and colleagues throughout the organization to orchestrate right
content, methods and resources to meet organizational goals.
11. Works to achieve staff retention and employee engagement
through effective management of processes resulting in fulfillment
of learning needs.
12. The Nursing Professional Development Specialist will be
expected to maintain clinical expertise in assigned area(s),
continually monitoring for and incorporating changes in
evidence-based practices, demonstrated best practice, and
patient/client population data.
This document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and
authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list
of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore,
that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond
those explicitly described
STANDARD REQUIREMENTS:
1. Supports the Mission, Value and Vision of Beaumont Health (BH).
Demonstrates personal commitment through active involvement in the
performance improvement process.
2. Exhibits excellent customer service skills and behaviors toward
internal and external customers and co-workers. Promotes positive
public relations with patients/residents, family members, guests,
and others.
3. Supports and adheres to all Beaumont Health's customer service,
service excellence, and performance standards. Supports and
participates with all required compliance standards that may be
department specific and/or identified by the organizations
including in-service training, acceptable attendance, uniform and
dress code.
4. Adheres to HIPAA requirements and maintains confidentiality of
all data, including patient/resident, employee and operations
information.
5. Supports and participates in a collaborative team-oriented
environment - cooperates and works together with all co-workers,
plans and completes job duties, uses appropriate communications in
sensitive and emotional situations and follows up as appropriate
regarding reported complaints, problems and concerns.
6. Supports, cooperates with and demonstrates safe work practices
and attitudes, follows safety rules - including universal
precautions - reports and prevents/corrects unsafe conditions and
behaviors, and participates in organizational and departmental
safety programs.
7. Completes all required compliance standards that may be
department specific and/or identified by the organization.
8. Maintains current licensure, registration and/or certification,
as applicable, at all times.
STANDARD QUALIFICATIONS:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to
perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed
below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability
required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable
individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
A. Education / Training:
---Master's degree in Nursing required. Master's degree in related
field (ie., Education or Science)
---Will be considered but must have baccalaureate degree in
nursing.
B. Work Experience:
---Minimum of three (3) years of nursing experience in an acute
care setting. Five (5) years of education experience preferred.
C. Certification, Licensure, Registration:
---RN license in the State of Michigan. ANCC Certification in
Nursing Professional Development within 2 years of hire.
D. Other Qualifications:
---BLS, BLS Instructor.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
A. Physical Effort:
---Strength-Position requires ability to frequently push/pull up to
30 lb. objects with assist of others, occasional requires ability
to lift objects more than 50 lbs. with others, constantly lift
objects up to 20 lbs. And frequently lift up to 40 lbs.
---Manual Dexterity-Position requires incumbent to constantly
perform simple motor skills such as standing, walking and simple
manipulative skills such as writing. Position requires incumbent to
frequently perform moderately difficult manipulative skills such as
positioning patients.
---Coordination-Position requires incumbent to constantly perform
gross body coordination such as walking. Frequently perform tasks
which require hand-eye coordination such as assisting patients to
eat, collections of specimens for transport to lab and tasks which
require arm-hand steadiness such as taking patients temps and
pulses.
---Mobility-Positions requires incumbent to constantly walk and
stand; occasionally sit for prolonged periods, frequently bend such
as when caring for a patient in bed.
---Visual Discrimination-Positions requires incumbent to constantly
see objects far away as in driving and see close objects such as
reading thermometers.
---Hearing-Positions requires incumbent to constantly be able to
hear normal sound with some background noise as in answering
phone/intercom. Occasionally be able to distinguish sound as in
equipment alarms.
B. Work Environment:
Employee may be:
---frequently exposed to electro-magnetic radiations as in
VDTs.
---occasionally exposed to hazardous material other than blood,
body tissues, or fluids, dust, toxins, cytotoxins, chemical
hazardous materials, bodily injuries, loud and/or unpleasant
noises, high humidity, electrical hazards, or poisonous
substances.
---infrequently exposed to blood, body tissue, or fluids.
---seldom exposed to fluctuations in temperature, grease, oil, and
radiation.
---Potential risk of an exposure to hazardous medications or waste
materials of hazardous medications.
Beaumont offers a comprehensive benefits package to meet your
financial, health and life-work balance goals.
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Generous paid time off, holidays and flexible scheduling
Our employees receive special discounts on a wide range of products
and services
Exceptional health, dental, vision and prescription drug insurance
plans
Relocation assistance
Generous retirement savings, disability insurance, identify theft
protection and even home and auto insurance
Our diverse and talented teams of professionals and clinicians
don't just share in the success of our system; they make it
possible. Driven by our shared commitment to making our communities
healthier and stronger, we are leading the way in health care
innovation with relentless ambition and a belief that anything is
possible when we work together.
This is where extraordinary begins. Find out where it can take you
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Beaumont Health grants equal employment opportunity to all
qualified persons without regard to race, color, national origin,
sex, disability, age, religion, genetic information, marital
status, height, weight, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally
protected category.
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