Nursing Professional, Development Specialist

Shriners Hospitals for Children • Portland, OR

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About The Position

The Nursing Professional Development (NPD) Specialist supports professional role competence and growth across a variety of settings using a systems model. The specialist supports lifelong learning in an interprofessional environment and uses the Standards of NPD Practice and Professional Performance to guide expected professional performance. In collaboration with Talent Development and Nursing Leadership, the specialist applies and develops specialty tools, theories, skills, and knowledge to improve learners’ healthcare practices and advance the NPD specialty. The role includes expertise as a learning facilitator, change agent, mentor, leader, champion for scientific inquiry, advocate for the NPD specialty, and partner for practice transition. The specialist supports quality patient care by helping ensure nursing staff clinical competence and fostering evidence-based nursing practice.

The role develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates clinical onboarding and orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel. It assesses, measures, documents, and supports staff competency and addresses competency deficiencies. The specialist creates, manages, implements, coordinates, and evaluates continuing education activities to address identified practice gaps and learning outcomes. The role also develops strategies for lifelong learning, role transition and integration, skill acquisition, and succession planning, while promoting and integrating NPD science, research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement in patient care settings.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
• Master’s degree in Nursing with equivalent coursework in curriculum development, adult learning theory, learning needs assessment, and learning outcome measurement from an accredited college or university; or enrollment in an accredited MSN in Nursing Education program or a Master’s in Nursing program, with the degree to be completed within two years of job acceptance.
• Four years of progressively responsible nursing experience, including one year as a nurse educator or equivalent experience elsewhere.
• Current CPR/BLS card from the American Heart Association on the first day of employment in the position.
• National certification in Nursing Professional Development (NPD) required within 1.5 years of the job start date.

Responsibilities

• Develop, coordinate, manage, facilitate, conduct, and evaluate clinical onboarding and orientation programs for nursing and other healthcare personnel.
• Assess, measure, document, and support staff competency and address deficiencies in competence.
• Create, manage, implement, coordinate, and evaluate continuing educational activities that address identified practice gaps and specified learning outcomes.
• Identify and develop strategies for lifelong learning, role transition, role integration, skill acquisition, and succession planning.
• Promote and integrate the science of the NPD specialty to continuously improve practice.
• Promote research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement in patient care settings; conduct, encourage, or participate in these activities, including dissemination of findings.
• Collaborate with Talent Development and Nursing Leadership to improve learners’ healthcare practices and advance the NPD specialty.
• Help ensure nursing staff clinical competence and foster evidence-based nursing practice to support quality patient care.

What This Job Offers

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