Perianesthesia NPD Practitioner: PACU/Phase I/Critical Care Focus
About The Position
The Perianesthesia Nursing Professional Development (NPD) Practitioner completes a defined scope and standards of practice, identifies practice gaps through environmental scanning, and collaborates with others to improve practice and healthcare outcomes. The role supports learning, change, professional role competence, and growth, contributing to optimal patient care, population health, and protection of the public. It functions as a learning facilitator, change agent, mentor, leader, champion for scientific inquiry, advocate for the NPD specialty, and partner for practice transitions. This is a full-time, 36-hour-per-week position with a 50% clinical and 50% educator role at the service level. The practitioner assesses, designs and develops, implements, and evaluates programs and initiatives, while ensuring regulatory requirements are met. Focus areas include staff education and professional development, practice standards review, onboarding and nurse residency coordination, competency updates, teaching and in-services, and monitoring quality metrics and developing action plans to improve them. The role collaborates with educators within the Perioperative Service Department. The position is primarily days and evenings, with on-call responsibilities per unit requirements.
Requirements
- Master’s degree required.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to multitask and adapt to changing priorities.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Three years of critical care and/or perianesthesia nursing experience preferred.
- Certified Post-Anesthesia Care Nurse (CPAN) and/or Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) certification highly recommended.
Responsibilities
- Complete the defined scope and standards of practice.
- Scan the environment to identify practice gaps and collaborate with others to improve practice and healthcare outcomes.
- Facilitate learning and change, mentor and lead, champion scientific inquiry, advocate for the Nursing Professional Development specialty, and support practice transitions.
- Assess, design and develop, implement, and evaluate service-level programs and initiatives while ensuring regulatory requirements are met.
- Support staff education and professional development.
- Review practice standards and coordinate onboarding and nurse residency.
- Update competencies and provide teaching and in-services.
- Monitor quality metrics and develop action plans to improve them.
- Collaborate with educators within the Perioperative Service Department.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
