Nursing Education and Professional Development Generalist Cardiovascular Services

Advocate Health•Libertyville, IL

4d•$41 - $62

About The Position

The Nursing Education and Professional Development Generalist supports cardiovascular service line departments, including Cath/IR, Cardiac Rehab, CV Diagnostics, the Heart Failure Clinic, and Radiology Nursing. The role develops, coordinates, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates education and orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel. It supports competency management, identifies learning and practice gaps, and develops educational activities in consultation and collaboration with Nursing Professional Development Specialists, regional and system teams, and operational leadership. The position uses best-practice standards and adult learning principles to plan, implement, and evaluate educational activities. It adapts materials and teaching strategies to learners’ developmental levels, learning needs, readiness, abilities, language preferences, and cultures, using appropriate aids and technologies. It evaluates educational impact on learners, organizational resources, and patient outcomes and helps support lifelong learning, role transition, skill acquisition, and professional development. The role also requires knowledge and skills to provide age-appropriate care, including understanding growth and development across the lifespan and interpreting patient data to identify age-specific care needs in accordance with departmental policies and procedures. The position is part-time, 20 hours per week, and day shift. It generally works in a normal office environment and requires travel. A BSN and an active Registered Nurse license in the state of practice are required. Three years of front-line nursing experience is typically required; the posting describes 3+ years as highly preferred.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN).
Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices.
Typically three years of front-line nursing experience; 3+ years is described as highly preferred.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, including strong presentation and speaking skills.
Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, planning, and problem-solving skills.
Critical-thinking and analytical skills.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Ability to travel and operate equipment necessary to perform the job.

Nice To Haves

Background in a cardiac catheterization laboratory is preferred.
Professional board certification is a plus.
Three or more years of experience is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop, coordinate, facilitate, conduct, and evaluate orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel.
Assist with competency management using tools that capture objective and subjective data about individuals’ knowledge and performance.
Design educational activities to address identified practice gaps in consultation with a Nursing Professional Development Specialist.
Plan, design, implement, and evaluate education using best-practice standards and adult learning principles.
Provide strategies that support lifelong learning, role transition and integration, skill acquisition, and mastery as learners advance in their professions and specialties.
Collaborate with system and operational leadership to meet education needs at the site and in nursing departments.
Adapt educational materials and teaching strategies to learners’ developmental levels, learning needs, readiness, ability, language preference, and culture, while considering employee and discipline scopes of practice and using aids or technologies as needed.
Evaluate and analyze the impact of educational programming on learners, organizational resources, and patient outcomes, and adjust programming in consultation with an NPD Specialist as needed.
Establish and implement evaluation tools and methods to identify knowledge, skill, and competency gaps among nursing personnel in consultation with an NPD Specialist as needed.
Develop and support specialty- or department-specific education needs in collaboration with regional and system teams.
Demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the ages of patients served, including assessing and interpreting information to identify age-specific care needs.

Benefits

Paid Time Off programs.
Medical, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability benefits.
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses.
Adoption assistance and paid parental leave.
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs.
Educational Assistance Program.
Potential premium pay, including shift and on-call pay, based on the teammate’s role.
Incentive pay for select positions.
Opportunity for annual increases based on performance.
Comprehensive benefits and well-being programs and career-development investment; eligibility may depend on FTE or employment status.