Nursing Professional Development Generalist

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation • Oakbrook Terrace, IL

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About The Position

The Nursing Professional Development Generalist supports the orientation, competency management, and ongoing education of nursing and other healthcare personnel. In consultation with a Nursing Professional Development (NPD) Specialist, the role designs and evaluates educational activities to address identified practice gaps and uses adult learning principles and best-practice standards to help learners achieve desired outcomes.

The position collaborates with system, regional, and operational leaders to address site, nursing department, and specialty education needs. It adapts teaching materials and methods to learners’ developmental levels, learning needs, readiness, abilities, language preferences, and cultures, while recognizing the scope of practice across disciplines. The role evaluates the effects of educational programming on learners, organizational resources, and patient outcomes, and adjusts programming as needed.

The incumbent must demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to provide care appropriate to the ages of patients served, including understanding growth and development across the lifespan and interpreting patient information to identify age-specific care needs. The position is generally exposed to a normal office environment and requires travel, with possible exposure to road and weather hazards.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
• Typically requires 3 years of experience in front-line nursing.
• Excellent written and oral communication, 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.
• Functional speech, hearing, and senses sufficient for effective communication.
• Ability to operate all equipment necessary to perform the job.

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 information about individuals’ knowledge and performance.
• Design educational activities to address practice gaps for identified audiences in consultation with an NPD Specialist.
• Plan, design, implement, and evaluate education using best-practice standards, including adult learning principles.
• Provide strategies that support lifelong learning, role transition and integration, skill acquisition, and professional mastery.
• Collaborate with system and operational leadership to meet the education needs of sites and nursing departments.
• Adapt materials and teaching strategies to learners’ developmental levels, learning needs, readiness, abilities, language preferences, and cultures, while considering the scope of practice of different employees and disciplines.
• Use assistive aids and technologies as needed to meet learner needs.
• Evaluate and analyze the effects of programming on learners, organizational resources, and patient outcomes, and make adjustments in consultation with an NPD Specialist as needed.
• Establish and implement evaluation tools and methods to identify nursing personnel knowledge, skill, and competency gaps, in consultation with an NPD Specialist as needed.
• Develop and support specialty- or department-based education needs in collaboration with regional and system teams.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills needed to provide age-appropriate care and assess and interpret information related to patients’ age-specific needs.
• Travel as required.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off programs
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible healthcare 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, incentive pay for select positions, and annual increases based on performance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level