Nurse Ed​/Prof Dev KAL

Overview

Reports to the department Manager. Is responsible for assessing, planning, coordinating, and evaluating orientation, continuing education, and in-service programs for staff, which are competency-based. Recommends improvements in the quality of nursing practice and standards. Serves as a resource to staff. Work closely with the full-time onboarding specialist. This role is to help coordinate onboarding, address provisioning issues, manage payroll, attendance, and competency sign-off.

• MISSION: We deliver outstanding care, inspire health, and connect with heart.
• VALUES: Trust. Respect. Integrity. Compassion.
• SERVICE GOALS: Personally connect. Keep everyone informed. Be on their team.

Applies professional development practice by following the Scope and Standards of Practice and Performance from the American Nursing Professional Development Practice Model which includes, but is not limited to:

• Assessment:
  Collecting data and information relevant to individual, unit, organization, and system performance.
• Diagnosis:
  Analysis of data to determine actual and potential practice gaps and their relation to other problems, issues and needs.
• Outcomes Identification:
  Identification of expected quality outcomes to develop a plan that is designed for individual, unit, organization, system, and population performance.
• Planning:
  Develops a collaborative plan that includes evidence-based strategies to achieve expected outcomes while seeking input from key stakeholders.
• Implementation & Coordination:
  Coordinates and implements the identified plan with a focus on ensuring quality, safety, and evidence-based strategies to achieve desired outcomes.
• Health Teaching & Health Promotion:
  Implements strategies that promote wellness for patients, associates, and community members.
• Evaluation:
  Engages in evaluation of advancement toward achieving identified outcomes.

• Ethics:
  Integrates ethics into all aspects of practice.
• Advocacy:
  Demonstrates advocacy in all roles and practice settings.
• Respectful and Equitable Practice:
  Practices with cultural humility and inclusiveness.
• Communication:
  Communicates effectively in all areas of professional practice.
• Collaboration:
  
  Collaborates with colleagues, key stakeholders, and academic partners.
• Leadership:
  Leads within the interprofessional practice and learning environments.
• Education:
  
  Pursues knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing and NPD practice and promotes futuristic thinking.
• Scholarly inquiry:
  Applies scholarship, evidence, and research findings into practice.
• Quality of Practice:
  Contributes to quality nursing, healthcare, and NPD practice.
• Professional Practice Evaluation:
  Participates in self-reflection while evaluating one's own and others  nursing practice.
• Resource Stewardship:
  Judiciously utilizes resources to plan, provide, and uphold evidence-based NPD initiatives that are safe, effective, and financially responsible.
• Environmental Health:
  Advances environmental health and safety throughout all practice and learning environments.

• Facilitating needs analysis for staff to ensure that educational needs are identified and are the focal point for program development and enhancements; also ensuring that desired outcomes are met.
• Planning, designing, and coordinating training, educational programs and/or instructional materials.
• Designing, preparing, evaluating, and updating lesson plans, lectures, tests, materials, programs, and courses to meet regulatory agency requirements and changing needs.
• Teaching staff members by conducting training and providing group and individual instruction.
• Preparing necessary administrative/support materials (such as program schedules, attendance rosters, evaluations, and summaries, etc.).
• Monitoring the orientee's progress/performance and providing instruction and counseling as necessary; also making appropriate recommendations to the department Manager/Director.
• Serving as an educational resource for various departments, committees, Beacon Health System, Physician groups and referral organizations.
• Participating in community activities as requested.
• Providing education for patients as appropriate.
• Assisting in the development of policies and procedures.

• Completing other job-related assignments and special projects as directed.

Associate complies with the following organizational requirements:

• Attends and participates in department meetings and is accountable for all information shared.
• Completes mandatory education, annual competencies, and department specific education within established time frames.
• Completes annual employee health requirements within established time frames.
• Maintains license/certification, registration in good standing throughout fiscal year.
• Direct patient care…