Cardiac Care (416/436) - Unit-Based Nursing Professional Development Practitioner
About The Position
The Unit-Based Nursing Professional Development Practitioner completes a defined scope and standards of practice and identifies practice gaps through environmental scanning. The role collaborates with others to improve practice and healthcare outcomes and supports learning, change, professional role competence, and growth to promote optimal patient care, population health, and public protection. The practitioner functions as a learning facilitator, change agent, mentor, leader, champion for scientific inquiry, advocate for the Nursing Professional Development specialty, and partner for practice transitions. This full-time, 40-hour position primarily works days, with some off-shift flexibility, supporting nursing units 416 and 436. The practitioner assesses, designs and develops, implements, and evaluates unit-level 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 for improvement. The role collaborates with educators in the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Service Line and supports initiatives across two nursing units.
Requirements
- Master’s degree required.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to multitask and adapt to changing priorities.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Cardiac care and/or critical care experience preferred.
- Experience caring for patients with vascular conditions, cardiology diagnoses, advanced heart failure, and arrhythmia/interventional needs is highly desirable.
- Certification in a relevant field preferred.
Responsibilities
- Assess, design and develop, implement, and evaluate programs and initiatives at the unit level for units 416 and 436.
- Ensure regulatory requirements are met.
- Support staff education and professional development.
- Review practice standards and update competencies.
- Coordinate onboarding and nurse residency activities.
- Provide teaching and in-services.
- Monitor quality metrics and develop action plans to improve them.
- Identify practice gaps through environmental scanning and collaborate to improve practice and healthcare outcomes.
- Facilitate learning, change, professional role competence, and growth.
- Collaborate with educators in the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Service Line.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
