Clinical Practice & Education Specialist

University of Maryland Medical System•Baltimore, MD

About The Position

Under limited supervision, translates the educational needs and objectives of the unit within Patient Care Services into consistent and effective educational programs; assessing and improving patient care processes and serving as an expert clinical resource to the staff in pediatric emergency practice. Acts as a support to unit and division leadership in ensuring excellence in clinical care, patient care and clinical practice. Focuses on developing staff to work in today’s environment and developing the nursing practice of tomorrow through evidence-based practice development linking relevant research to practice and best practice integration.

Requirements

Masters degree in nursing or related health science field is required.
Current licensure in related field is required (i.e. nursing, physical therapy).
Five years of progressively responsible clinical experience.
Two years of experience must be in a mentoring/training /leadership role.

Responsibilities

Provides consistent delivery of education by involving appropriate colleagues, customers, and staff to ensure commitment and knowledge-transfer.
Ensures that staff clinical training and education needs are understood, documented and addressed in a timely manner.
Utilizes education to support UMMC leadership in ensuring staff commitment to hospital objectives.
Introduces evidence based practice improvements to facilitate the delivery of high quality, cost-effective patient care processes.
Provide leadership to accomplish objectives through innovation and expert knowledge.
Collaborates in developing and implementing practice standards that achieve strategically relevant patient care outcomes in selected patient populations.
Develops and implements an effective method of identifying and matching Patient Care Services staff needs that can be addressed through education.
Ensures that educational programs and specific content offerings meet divisional, unit, and regulatory standards for design, content, teaching, evaluation, and documentation.
Designs and develops comprehensive clinical orientation that facilitates the timely deployment of competent staff in conjunction with education leadership.
Ensures that evidence-based practice standards and institutional policies and strategies requiring excellence from Patient Care Services staff are met in coordination with unit leadership.
Provides input to Patient Care Services leadership on staff accountabilities and competencies.
Effectively diagnoses patient care delivery variation and other issues that minimize the consistency of practice.
Evaluates new therapeutic/preventative interventions that target patient needs not met by current care delivery strategies.
Provides individual and group follow-up to selected new hires from hire date through 18 months post hire.
Collaborates with staff and unit leadership to establish and manage a system to measure the effectiveness of training.
Monitors unit compliance with hospital and regulatory standards and develops and implements strategies to address identified practice gaps.
Consults, supports, and mentors clinical nursing staff in collaboration with unit leadership.
In conjunction with unit leadership, identifies and analyzes trends in satisfaction, quality outcomes, and practice excellence using data to guide continuing educational efforts and initiatives to advance nursing practice.