Nursing Professional Development Specialist - Emergency Department, Nights

NYU Langone Health • Mineola, NY

5d • Onsite

About The Position

NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center offering sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care across numerous medical and surgical specialties. As a major regional healthcare resource, it is deeply committed to medical education and research, providing a full spectrum of inpatient and outpatient services. NYU Langone Health prioritizes equity and inclusion, aiming to be a workplace where talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive, embracing individual skills, ideas, and knowledge.

Requirements

• Current Registered Professional Nurse licensure in New York State
• Master's degree in nursing education
• Certification in Nursing Education required upon eligibility
• Ability to apply nursing process toward achievement of specific outcomes in an organized fashion to address patient/family satisfaction and quality indicators.
• Evidence of excellent communication (both oral and written), interpersonal, organization, critical thinking, problem solving, and leadership skills.
• Basic Life Support Certification through the American Heart Association
• Three to five years of clinical experience in a specialty area, or combination of staff nurse/leadership experience in the specialty area.
• Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

Nice To Haves

• Participation in pertinent professional organizations

Responsibilities

• Assesses and analyzes learning needs for nursing staff throughout the Departments of Nursing.
• Plans, implements, and evaluates educational activities that support nursing care.
• Participates in the development, supports implementation, and provides education and reinforcement of nursing and patient care standards, evidence-based practice, and nursing research.
• Maintains clinical expertise in a specialty area.
• Demonstrates and fosters collaborative relationships within the Departments of Nursing and other disciplines.
• Participates in Departments of Nursing and hospital committees.
• Fosters a culture embedded in NYULH's tripartite mission: to care, to teach, and to discover.
• Collaborates with the interprofessional team to ensure excellence in quality, patient experience, and efficiency.
• Develops positive and productive relationships across disciplines to establish strategic partnerships to achieve shared goals.
• Facilitates and supports positive and productive work and care environments, founded in the principles of respect and civility.
• Demonstrates a steadfast commitment to engaging and meaningfully recognizing staff.
• Demonstrates a commitment to lifelong professional growth and development.
• Utilizes current literature, research, and evidence-based findings in the design, implementation, and evaluation of education programs and activities for staff learning and development.
• Collaborates with nurse manager to select new hires, mentors, preceptors and ensures that employees are appropriately on-boarded, oriented, educated, and evaluated.
• Supports clinical rotations and student nurses in partnership with school affiliations.
• Evaluates the performance and assesses the practice of designated personnel in a fair and transparent manner.
• Works collaboratively with clinical leadership to identify learning needs, provides learning opportunities and educational resources for staff in the clinical area of responsibility.
• Serves as a role model and resource for staff.
• Functions as a respectful leader of the health care team; develops and manages employees through the promotion of professional growth and development, mentoring, appreciative coaching, and counseling, as appropriate, in alignment with the principles of a caring, fair, and professional work environment.
• Ensures that education programs are executed according to established processes, guidelines, and standards of accrediting agencies such as the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and the State Nurses Association.
• Collaborates with patient care unit leadership to ensure compliance with regulatory agencies as pertains to staff education and competencies.
• Identifies and addresses learning needs of nursing staff in assigned clinical areas and throughout the Departments of Nursing to promote and maintain competency.
• Holds self and others accountable for efficiency and feasibility in the delivery of exemplary care.
• Communicates with clarity and integrity to build trust with all stakeholders.
• Provides education and resources that facilitate age-appropriate, culturally sensitive, and ethical care for patients.
• Participates in the drafting of nursing and organizational policy, engaging front-line staff, and incorporating the precepts of shared governance.
• Supports data collection in collaboration with the nurse manager and interprofessional team.
• Analyzes and utilizes data to drive practice changes that integrate quality, safety, patient experience, and productivity metrics to achieve excellence in patient and nursing outcomes.
• Fosters high reliability concepts within the unit/organizational structure.
• Fosters a culture of inquiry, innovation, and transformation with a focus on the future.
• Participates in and fosters staff involvement in nursing research, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice efforts.
• Leads and supports the development of new insights to complex situations, innovative designs, and programs/processes.

Benefits

• Financial security benefits
• Generous time-off program
• Employee resource groups for peer support
• Holistic employee wellness program focusing on physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care.

What This Job Offers

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