Nursing Professional Development Specialist - Endoscopy and Proc

Palo Alto, California


Employer: Insight Global
Industry: Nurse
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Part-Time

Job Details
A Brief Overview
As the Nursing Professional Development Specialist, your main responsibilities (NPDS) is a registered nurse who enhances professional competence and fosters growth among learners across diverse settings. In an interprofessional environment, the NPDS facilitates continuous development for the healthcare team. Responsibilities include adhering to the Standards of NPD Practice and Professional Performance, which outline expected professional performance levels. The NPDS leverages specialized tools, theories, skills, and knowledge to enhance learners healthcare practices and advance the NPD specialty. Additionally, the NPDS assumes various roles, including learning facilitator, change agent, mentor, leader, champion for scientific inquiry, and advocate for the NPD specialty. By ensuring nursing staffs clinical competence and promoting evidence-based practice, the NPDS contributes to quality patient care.

What you will do
Learning Facilitator: Utilizes the educational design process to address knowledge, skills, and practice gaps identified through needs assessments.
Change Agent: Drives process transformation at various levels (macro, meso, and micro) by inspiring change, taking initiative, and implementing project management and improvement processes.
Mentor: Contributes to professional development by supporting lifelong learning and helping individuals grow across practice, professional, and educational contexts.
Leader: Influences interprofessional practice and learning environments, the nursing professional development (NPD) specialty, the nursing profession, and healthcare.
Champion for Scientific Inquiry: Advocates for generating and disseminating new knowledge, using evidence to enhance NPD practice, guide clinical decisions, and improve patient care.
Advocate for NPD Specialty: Actively promotes and demonstrates nursing professional development as a specialized nursing practice area. Feel free to ask if you need further clarification or assistance
Onboarding/Orientation: Designing, coordinating, managing, facilitating, conducting, and evaluating clinical onboarding/orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel.
Competency Management: Assessing, measuring, documenting, and supporting staff members competency while addressing any competence deficiencies.
Education: Creating, managing, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating continuing educational activities tailored to address practice gaps for specific target audiences, aiming to enhance knowledge, skills, and practice outcomes.
Professional Role Development: Identifying and implementing strategies to support continuous maturation through lifelong learning, enabling role transition, integration, skill acquisition, and succession planning.
Research/Evidence-Based Practice/Quality Improvement: Promoting and integrating the science of the NPD specialty to drive ongoing practice improvement. The NPDS encourages research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement initiatives within patient care settings, including disseminating findings.
Learning: Supports the acquisition of knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes that form the foundation for evidence-based practice.
Change: Facilitates the adoption of new behaviors and processes in clinical practice.
Professional Role Competence and Growth: Ensures performance aligns with defined criteria based on specialty areas, context, and the model of practice, including progression through Benners stages of clinical development.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com .

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Required Skills & Experience

Must Haves:
Education Qualifications
Bachelors Degree or higher in Nursing from an accredited academic institution or
MASTERS IN NURSING AND EQUIVALENT COURSEWORK IN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, ADULT LEARNING THEORY, LEARNING NEEDS ASSESSMENT, AND LEARNING OUTCOME MEASUREMENT FROM AN ACCREDITED COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY
Licenses and Certifications
RN - Registered Nurse
BLS - Basic Life Support
Experience
FOUR (4) YEARS OF PROGRESSIVELY RESPONSIBLE NURSING EXPERIENCE
ONE YEAR AS A NURSE EDUCATOR OR EQUIVALENT ELSEWHERE

Plus:
Ideally experience in Interventional Platform Education

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.

Created: 2024-08-30
Reference: 377743
Country: United States
State: California
City: Palo Alto


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