Nursing Professional Development Practitioner Medical Oncology Cancer Center

Position: Nursing Professional Development Practitioner  Medical Oncology Cancer Center

Job Description:

An onsite Nursing Professional Development (NPD) Practitioner is proficient in clinical education standards supporting and guiding caregivers in self-reliance and self-development. The NPD Practitioner assesses, guides, supports, coordinates, and evaluates caregiver orientation and ongoing learning needs in alignment with their associated program, service line or care group. The NPD Practitioner may be required to travel to various locations to fulfill their work responsibilities.

Essential Functions

• Learning Facilitator: Serves as a resource, consultant, and mentor to caregivers and preceptors, promoting self-reliance and teamwork. Guides new caregiver orientation, supports ongoing learning, and uses standardized tools. Applies educational design and adult learning principles to address gaps from needs assessments and evaluations in their assigned area.
• Change Agent: Collaborates with colleagues across the organization to understand goals, priorities, and learning needs for care areas (e.g., performance, competencies, skills, new initiatives), ensuring the adoption of evidence-based practices within specialties for all caregivers. Facilitates high quality and focused new caregiver orientation, supports ongoing learning needs of existing caregivers, and clinical coaches, ensuring learning opportunities by utilizing standardized orientation tools and resources
• Mentor: Provides coaching and mentoring to preceptors and caregivers to assist them in managing their personal learning, growth, and job enrichment opportunities. Provides coaching and mentoring to clinical coaches and caregivers to assist them in managing their own personal learning, growth, and job enrichment opportunities.
• Leader: Facilitates interprofessional learning, the NPD specialty, and advancements in nursing and healthcare. Acts as a resource, consultant, and mentor, inspiring self-reliance and teamwork within the care site and PDPE service line.
• Champion for Inquiry
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  Fosters the creation and sharing of new knowledge and uses evidence to advance NPD practice, guide clinical nursing practice, and enhance patient care.
• Advocate for NPD Specialty: Champions the importance and impact of the NPD specialty within the organization. Promotes the value of NPD practices, supports professional development, and ensures the integration of NPD principles to enhance nursing practice and patient outcomes.
• Partner for Practice Transition: Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure smooth transitions for new and existing caregivers. Supports the integration of new practices and initiatives, facilitates orientation and ongoing education, and promotes seamless adaptation to changes within the care environment.

Skills

• Communication Skills
• Interprofessional Skills
• Adult Learning & Patient Education
• Learning Assessment
• Curriculum Development
• Learning & Professional Development
• Tech Proficiency
• Research Integration
• Evidence-Based Practice
• Quality Improvement

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution (degree verification required).
• Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of practice.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification for healthcare providers.
• Demonstrated experience in adult or staff development.
• Demonstrated nursing experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in nursing or a related field.
• Certification in Nursing Professional Development (NPD-BC) or a related specialty.
• Three (3) years of relevant nursing experience.
• Local, Regional, or National Presentations or Publications.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
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