Nursing Professional, Development Specialist

Shriners Children's • Galveston, TX

6d • $107,719 - $161,579 • Onsite

About The Position

Shriners Children’s is seeking a Nursing Professional Development Specialist to join their team. This role is responsible for developing, coordinating, and evaluating clinical onboarding and orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel. The specialist will also assess, measure, document, and support staff competency, addressing any deficiencies. Additionally, they will create, manage, and implement continuing educational activities to address practice gaps and facilitate professional role development through lifelong learning, role transition, integration, skill acquisition, and succession planning. The role also involves promoting and integrating the science of Nursing Professional Development (NPD) specialty to improve practice, and encouraging research, evidence-based practice (EBP), and quality improvement (QI) in patient care settings. The NPD Specialist may conduct, encourage, and participate in research, EBP, and QI activities, including disseminating findings.

Requirements

• Relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates clinical onboarding/orientation programs for nursing & other healthcare personnel.
• Assesses, measures, documents and supports competency, and addresses deficiencies in staff members’ competence.
• Creates, manages, implements, coordinates, and evaluates continuing educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audience developed to achieve specific outcomes to identified gaps in knowledge, skills, or practice.
• Identification and development of strategies to facilitate a continuous process of maturation through lifelong learning that allows for role transition, role integration, skill acquisition and succession planning.
• Promotes and integrates the science of NPD specialty to continuously improve practice.
• Promotes research, EBP, QI in patient care settings.
• May conduct, encourage, participate in research, EBP, QI, including dissemination of findings.

What This Job Offers

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