Nursing Practice Specialist - Staff Development - Full Time - Days
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About The Position
ProMedica is a locally owned, nonprofit healthcare organization serving northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. Driven by our Mission to improve your health and well-being, we offer a full range of diagnostic, medical and surgical specialties in areas such as emergency medicine and trauma, heart and vascular, oncology, orthopedics, neurology, and women's and children's services. Today, ProMedica - a committed team of dedicated experts, passionate volunteers, and inspired advocates - is recognized nationally for the consistent, high-level care that we provide our communities. The Nursing Practice Specialist focuses on the lifelong learning needs of the professional nurse including orientation, continuing education, and ongoing competency development. This role works in collaboration with members of ProMedica Leadership to facilitate and provide education and professional development activities with special emphasis on patient care and nursing professional development. Educational delivery may be focused at the department, division, hospital or system level. The Nursing Practice Specialist serves as a consultant, researcher, evidence-based practice mentor, performance improvement leader, and project manager in their area(s) of expertise, supporting the development of competence in clinicians through educational activities, including direct teaching and/or in collaboration with unit/department, division, hospital or system level-based educators. The Nursing Practice Specialist represents education in research, practice, and service activities, including special projects and performance improvement activities with a particular focus on the learning of staff and patients/families. Work is performed in accordance with ProMedica's Nursing Professional Practice Model, Mission, Values, and Safety behaviors while focusing on patient and family-centered care and aligning with accepted nursing standards, established hospital policies and procedures, and applicable regulations. The position aims to guide the entity of ProMedica nursing in the growth and development of nursing practice through the utilization of evidence-based practice concepts and processes, orientation, and education. Key responsibilities include the development of organizational-wide patient care programs, policies, and procedures that describe how patients' nursing care needs or patient populations receiving nursing care are assessed, evaluated, and met. The Nursing Practice Specialist will also assist the Chief Nursing Officers in the development of education and programs to assist with the implementation of the organization's plans for providing nursing care to those patients requiring nursing care, and will implement an effective ongoing program to measure, assess, and improve the quality of nursing care delivered to patients while supporting system-wide shared governance programs.
