Nursing Professional Development Specialist

Job description

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Job Title
Nursing Professional Development Specialist
Location
Port St Lucie
Facility
Tradition Hospital
Department
Nursing Education-Nursing Institute
Job Code
000627
Shift
Days
Schedule
8:00am-5:00pm
Job Summary
Job Details
Join Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital’s team of caregivers that provide top-quality patient care to the Port St. Lucie area. Opening its doors in 2013 and expanding in 2017, this state-of-the-art acute care facility has 177 patient rooms and offers a wide variety of services to meet community needs. Here, you will be supported as you follow your dreams and find where you belong, here at Tradition Hospital.
As a Nursing Professional Development Specialist, you will plan, develop and facilitate onboarding and ongoing educational sessions as well as the ongoing professional development of nurses at Tradition Hospital. Acting as a mentor to caregivers, you will provide them with support and evaluate them on individual and program outcomes to ensure the highest standards of nursing practice are met. Additionally, you will collaborate with clinical staff, leadership and other educators to create a positive learning environment and address any challenges that arise throughout the system. An ideal candidate for this role should possess a unique combination of clinical expertise, teaching abilities and interpersonal skills as well as a passion for passing their knowledge on to a new generation of nurses.
This role offers the opportunity to be cross-trained in various areas, giving you another avenue in which to thrive. You will also have access to leadership courses and the ability to obtain additional certifications, which can lead to growth opportunities within Cleveland Clinic.
A caregiver in this position works days from 8:00AM – 5:00PM.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
• Design, direct, implement and evaluate educational offerings based on knowledge, skills and learning levels of nursing staff.
• Identify learning needs and desires of nursing personnel.
• Develop and utilize appropriate evaluation systems to determine the effectiveness of educational activities.
• Consult with individuals within the Nursing Institute and Ambulatory Nursing, CCF and the community regarding professional nursing practice and roles.
• Assist in the development of department specific orientation and competencies.
• Assist departments in orientation of caregivers.
• Develop and maintain a cataloging system for tracking and retrieval of all available teaching-learning resources.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) OR Master’s Degree in Nursing (MSN) with a non-nursing Bachelor’s degree
• Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)
• Two years of recent nursing experience with demonstrated clinical expertise including clinical nursing experience, preceptor or BCLS or ACLS instructor
• Demonstrated knowledge of education methodology such as needs assessment, curriculum development, instructional design and principles of adult learning
• Presentation skills

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
• Master’s Degree
• Specialty certification
• Three to five years of recent inpatient nursing experience
• Two to three years of educational experience or equivalent
• Two years of ED, ICU and/or Risk Management experience

Physical Requirements:
• Requires full range of motion; manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
• Requires corrected hearing and vision to normal range.
• Requires some exposure to communicable diseases or bodily fluids.
• Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects.
• Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.
• Note: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.

Personal Protective Equipment:
• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.
Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.
Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.
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